The Official 2003 Rugby World Cup Thread

South Africans playing for Russia... for the money? Don't think there's too much bucks in rugga in the motherland.

SA played well against Samoa...
I don't know what was up with all those drop goal attempts, our backline should've been running around as much as possible in preperation for the rest of the WC.
Now it's on to the al blacks.

We've faced NZ twice in WC history and beat them both times - hopefully we can keep that record going 😀

GO BOKKE!!

Damn!
You won't see too many teams upset the Aussie set pieces...
The Irish just didn't have enough mojo to pull through against the good Aussie defence.
Still the Aussies can count themselves very lucky. Both teams didn't have their best games and luckily for the boys from down under the paddies just made too many mistakes on attack.

The Aussie team must be pretty worried now.
They haven't had too many good victories against northern hemisphere teams of late and they've lost against Enland, NZ and SA just before the WC.

It seems home advantage isn't really helping either. Today I just heard the Irish fans cheering.

scotland are cruising bring on the useless aussies EASY PEASY.here we go to the semis.😀

Rugby is a great sport for real men. my teams, England and Ireland ofcourse. Johnny Wilkinson is the best.

Originally posted by HiAngel
Rugby is a great sport for real men. my teams, England and Ireland ofcourse. Johnny Wilkinson is the best.

Great performance by the Welsh, almost taking the kiwis. They just ran out of steam halfway through the second half.

That was the second "upset" of the weekend by a northern hemisphere team.

Was a great game! Being a kiwi was a bit surprised by this new style of fast paced northern hemisphere rugby 😉 welsh played well and glad that our boys got a decent hit out before SA. How has Wales gone against the English this year in the six nations??????

Don't know exactly what happened this year in the 6 nations...
I don't think England actually lost a game this year (not sure, but they didn't lose too many if they did).

I don't think England are too worried about the Welsh, because the kiwis let the Welsh back into the game by playing their high risk running brand of rugby. It didn't all go as planned and then they started to panic when the Welsh started countering - which they did very well.
England are a more composed side, I can't see the Welsh troubling them too much.

But we can pray and keep our fingers crossed 😉

But we can pray and keep our fingers crossed 😉[/b]

So now all the big teams have proved that they have weaknesses and have had to come through tough games. I thought SA played well against Samoa and used the right tactics however once the game was won I though they should have thrown it around a bit more. Australia were lucky as either team could have won that they will get into the semis as Scotland won;t worry them too much. I wouldn't wnat to call SA-NZ probabaly NZ I think it depends what sort of start the SAs have. Ireland France again a tight one my heart says Ireland but my heads says France. Wales shouldn't trouble England too much England were Grand Slam winners this year (not lost a game) though I can't remeber the Welsh score.

A good weekend of rugby ahead though!

i am going for australia all the way. england are ok, but after their match against tonga, where johnny wilkinson's boot was off they didnt look like the number one rugby team in the world.

I feel that some of the minnow countries like Georgia and Tonga are constantly proving they can score tries against countries like new zealand and england.

Originally posted by tomferg1
i am going for australia all the way. england are ok, but after their match against tonga, where johnny wilkinson's boot was off they didnt look like the number one rugby team in the world.

I feel that some of the minnow countries like Georgia and Tonga are constantly proving they can score tries against countries like new zealand and england.

Originally posted by Dr. Brain
Good point there.My teams for the semi's

France
Australia
England
South Africa

Final?
South Africa
England


Champions?
South Africa


*Runs for door*

Originally posted by Dr. Brain
Champions?
South Africa