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Season 6- Episode 3- Let's Take This Seriously (RWC Week 2 Pool Play)
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It's more fun to download from those dummies at TFRY! On this episode, we are talking all the good stuff from pool play week 2, including the Tier 2 countries bringing the thunder for the big boys to handle. Of course, we are talking the big win for the Flying Fijians and is it really THAT good for England? All this and much so enjoy something cold to drink with us!
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Introduction and Podcast Themes
00:00:04
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It is. The Fantasy Europeans. My name is Jared Dyke. I wanted to say it's stupid and let's move on but then you kept going. I'm Ben Glauser. I don't like any way anybody handled that. Collusion. Collusion.
00:00:28
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Hey everybody. Welcome back. It is the fancy rugby. Thanks. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. Yeah, let's go buddy. Um, I'm excited, but I'm not excited about this podcast for a lot of reasons. This is just concerning what we're talking about, not, not because I don't want to be here. I'm happy to be here, but just considering what we're talking about. There's some, there's some ugliness to the weekend, unfortunately, but some good stuff too. Yep. Agreed.
00:00:55
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Good stuff, too. I mean, it's the same old England squad, but that's just out of here or there. There's some other fun matches to talk about. I'm cracking mine. Oh, I am, too. Just open. Speaking of dirty, our hearts and our thoughts go to LaRoumalon
Listener Engagement and Well Wishes
00:01:16
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these days. Yeah, I know. Back soon to the free Jax, please. I am so glad they didn't actually replay.
00:01:25
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because I watched it. I was like, that's not good. I knew it wasn't good. I didn't see it. I was looking away for like two seconds. Yeah. That's one of those ones. They're like, yeah, that's not nice. We're not going to show any type of things. Yeah. Nope. Nobody needs to see that. It was bad. He knew it too. He's like, I am so boned. Yeah. Make sure that you are checking us out on your favorite
00:01:48
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Podcast app, download rate review, share us, obviously. Leave general feedback as you see fit. Get a good friend, George, a coffee or beer. If you're somewhere near the front of those leagues in the World Cup, whether it be super brew or official, you likely owe him a drink. Yes, and I'm not, but I still do because, I mean, some of my mistakes have been outside of my control.
Fantasy Rugby Insights and Social Issues
00:02:17
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Yeah. Tommy Refeld dropping last minute. Yeah. That was no less than awesome. Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. Some of my mistakes have been in my control. We'll talk about it on the fantasy court. Yeah. Yeah. We'll board people with the fantasy stuff later. I mean, we'll talk to the people who would appreciate the fantasy stuff later. We won't board the other people. Right. So yeah, grab him a coffee or a beer. There is no discrimination here on this podcast. Should there be in sports or in life?
00:02:46
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So I, something caught my attention on the series, um, social pop, uh, pages. Okay. Apparently, um, their netball team had one player mistaken for the other consistently, simply because they were both of people of color.
00:03:05
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Is this within the Saracens organization or within like, or just like the newspaper? I believe it was a comment. It was somebody in media mistaking two players from the Netball team, which is just...
00:03:21
Speaker
Right. Because Ludlow and Lewis Ludlum are the same person, right? Right. But no, it's yeah. St. Pete, I believe it was two black players and they just they were using them interchangeably, basically. I was like, OK, that's not OK. No, no. One is not the other. Let's respect that. And yeah, time to learn. You know what? Time to decipher people and not just be so fucking bigoted.
00:03:48
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Yeah. That tells you how deep it is where your eyes can't even tell the difference between two people that are of the same color. It's like, come on, dude. What are we doing? Yeah.
00:04:03
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to do it consistently, or at all. Sometimes, we'll do it with, it doesn't matter which player it is. It's like, oh, was that so-and-so or so-and-so? I just saw the flash. I couldn't tell. It doesn't matter if it's black, white, whatever. Sometimes you're just like, oh, I didn't see exactly who that was. But when it's your job to know and you're watching play and you can see the numbers, all that stuff, you gotta be able to identify quickly, anybody. It doesn't matter what, I don't know. That just goes to show that they're not paying attention to certain
00:04:31
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uh, certain segments of the population at all. And so they're just like, they probably knew all the white players individually, but you can't figure that one out. And it's not, yeah, not a good look, not helpful for anybody, anything at all. The only point at any at all, where it would be okay is if you have twins of, of any skin color, you know? Yeah. And even then that's part of your job. You got to know the difference.
00:04:59
Speaker
Right. Right. I was there was a set of identical twins at my school. And I was glad I wasn't a teacher because I couldn't tell them apart at all. And I never like this. It's just really weird because they came for like junior and senior year. So it wasn't like they were with us the whole time. It was just really weird to try to learn who they were. I know you both, but I just can't tell you apart until you're individually away from each other.
00:05:26
Speaker
But yeah, that's, that's, that's, that's appropriate. But no racial, again, it's the sports have to be for everybody. So let's make them for everybody. Learn to respect the players for who they are. Not, you know, absolutely. Absolutely.
Content Updates and Match Analysis
00:05:44
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Something more uplifting our Patreon. I'm going to have rankings out this week.
00:05:49
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I know it's an early game, but I'm gonna fuckin' do it. I finally got my damn self-organized over here, so I will have rankings out, so that'll be one thing you can look forward to, and then I'll follow it up next week with Boomerbust. I kinda had my head firmly up my butt the first couple weeks here, but I am pulling it out ahead. I had a thing for work last week that was really taking all my attention, so this week I will be back into legit stuff, promise, promise, promise. Yeah, this time of year just gets very busy
00:06:19
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everybody, it seems like. Please be patient with us. Good stuff coming, we promise. It is. We promise. Things should be in place by the start of the prem, which is really our... The World Cup is awesome and we love it, but obviously we're going to have different stuff certainly on our Patreon for the prem than we do for the World Cup. Right. All right.
00:06:48
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Let's jump in. Thursday game. France Uruguay. Anyways that thought that we're gonna just have a coaster, a coast of a ride, an armchair ride against Uruguay might be rethinking that one this week. Yeah, I'm kind of surprised at this point by second teams at this point. Like you're in the World Cup,
00:07:15
Speaker
After round one, I think everybody knew you got a front up if you're going to play against these teams. They're showing up. If you show up with anything less than your best, Argentina or France in this match, you're going to have a bad time. France had a bad time. Uruguay really got into them.
00:07:45
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gave them a scare that they shouldn't have had. And his friends didn't, like even the players who played were kind of coasting a little bit. And, you know, as long as they realized that that's what they were doing and they get it better by knockout stages, that's cool. Or the next night, I'm sure, I'm sure there's rockets going up keisters, so.
00:08:03
Speaker
Oh, no doubt about that. Absolutely not. And yeah, it's, it's always a balance. You want to rotate players out because you need these guys. I mean, it's two months long. It's, it's grueling and you don't need guys getting hurt. But right with that idea, you know, there's very few teams that are at this thing that you can just coast by there. There really is, especially this, the South American teams have all come to play. Um, even one of the lower European teams, which we'll talk about in a little bit. Um,
00:08:33
Speaker
Yeah, it's, it speaks well for the, for South America, number one. So let's just give them the credit that they deserve. They became, they played a pretty good brainer rugby and they, they made people jump up and down. I certainly, I was at the gym coaching kid, the kids and I'm yelling at the TV. They're like, just live. I'm like, yeah, it's live. That's why I'm reacting the way I am. So it's a load of credit to the airlines and the way they played and
00:09:03
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Um, you know, they, they knew this was going to be a big one. They could show up and, and, um, make it known to the world that they're for real, especially having a rest. Um, for the French though, I do want to bring around one fellow that it's really, I'm glad he, it looks like he's going to get, and he's got to start this week, but Malvaca like has come off the bench two weeks in a row and really been a huge.
00:09:30
Speaker
reason that they've been able to put the game away. Um, once last week, obviously very early on for, for our March on, but even this week when he came off, uh, you know, 15 minutes coming in, like 30 minutes for, for a hooker is a pretty good, good run by the, as a backup. Right. And yeah, he did a lot with it. And now he's, as you said, he's getting the start, right? He's earned it. Yeah. He's been great. Um, it's been okay.
00:09:57
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Like he wasn't, he wasn't anything like amazing. I thought Mavaca outplayed him when he came in. Yeah. Mavaca is the clear number two in this team. I don't, I don't think that's a question. I think it's always been a question of who's three. Really? And Booker it being on lower shell, being a finalist in the top 14, being a.
00:10:13
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uh, champions cup champion was probably going to be the best pick that they could get out of it. And he was a big reason that LaRochelle won the champions cup. I don't think that's denying that. So, uh, but yeah, he's definitely still, he's definitely still free. Yeah. Right. It's speaks to how, how rich tools are in terms of talent. Um, tough for new definitely yellow. Yeah. Uh,
00:10:43
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I don't know. I thought I would lean red myself. I thought that was a little light, especially given the circumstances of France versus Uruguay too. I thought that there wasn't, I didn't think there was enough mitigation there. I thought that it was too much of a shoulder charge. I didn't like it. I'm okay with it, but I didn't like it. Yeah. I kind of looked at it and was like,
00:11:08
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Whatever side this comes down on it's gonna be hard to argue against either way. Yeah, like I would exactly I'm not gonna argue against it. I just don't quite agree, right? It's I mean, it's your favorite referee anyway, yeah
00:11:25
Speaker
But hey, good on the year glands. France got it done. France are, you know, there's obviously one team we're really criticizing, but France are having a hard time getting, getting over the line a couple of times here. Like they only got, did they get two in this game or did they get three?
00:11:41
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We have three. I think they got three. Yeah. One, two, three. Yeah. Because, uh, um, I can't. 14. Yeah. And that story got over. Okay. Yeah. It's just. I saw it was a try. It was nice. That was pretty sweet. Yeah. He was. Yeah. He's a bloody good player. He's.
00:11:59
Speaker
He's definitely been he deserved that like he deserved getting that operate like the opportunity to score trying to World Cup. That's like he's he's that good. He deserves that. He's been. Yeah, he's come a long way here. Yes. And some that tell the grandkids moment. Yeah. So, yeah, France are just they're just getting it done at this point. And I'm and I'm sure the pressure is all over them right now in terms of playing in a home world cup and such. But still, they got to up their game a little bit here. They have
00:12:28
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What I think would most would be considered a layup coming up here with Namibia. We'll see what that performance looks like. I do like what France are doing. I know that people talk about peaking too early during a World Cup cycle, but there's also peaking too early during the World Cup itself. I like that France are getting some of their mistakes out of the way, but also they're doing good stuff.
00:12:57
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not quite together. And they haven't put their, you know, I mean, they played New Zealand, New Zealand fronted up, but they kind of walked through that after, after a little bit. So, right. I think they're preparing, they're doing their, they're in World Cup preparations for the knockout stages. That's where I'm seeing it. They're going to, they're preparing to play their best there. And the continuity is obviously off. They've had huge changes for three games in a row now. Now we go back to what is mostly the first team that they played against New Zealand for this week against
00:13:27
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A team that Namibia has kind of pulled back on. They want to challenge Uruguay, it looks like. That would be my guess, at least. Yeah, definitely looks like a change roster. Yeah. So, yeah, like Hardwick's on the bench. Conrady's not even in. Exactly. So on and so forth. Yeah. Speaking of the Namibians, I mean, apart from the LaRue injury, I don't know what else to say about this game because
00:13:53
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the all blacks were pissed and they just, they completely took it out on this in the movie and team. And that, that that's rough to say, but it's also a fact and it's really hard to, really hard to say otherwise.
Sportsmanship and Vibrant Match Atmospheres
00:14:06
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Yeah, it is. They, that was just a thorough, um, professional butt kicking. Absolutely. And good on cam Roy guard for being like leading the charge on that,
00:14:17
Speaker
That's my boy, that's my boy. If you had told me he was gonna do that in a World Cup before the Super Rugby season kicked off, I probably would not have believed you.
00:14:28
Speaker
But god damn it, am I happy for him? Yeah, he's coming. That was awesome for him. So great on him. Did y'all see that Anton Leonard Brown hung out with, he went to LaRoumaland's hospital? Yes, the whole team has signed. Yeah, they signed a jersey. Which is nice. Yeah, they did good stuff for him. Like, that's cool. That's the good rugby stuff right there. Right.
00:14:51
Speaker
And then speaking of good rugby stuff, but Uruguay and France all hung out in the France locker room after their game too. That's the good rugby stuff we like with this World Cup. This is why we love it. But yeah, not much else to say about the New Zealand team. This was not a challenge. They were always going to do this.
00:15:15
Speaker
I wish there was a thing that they could have done, but there wasn't like this was just they plowed everyone over right in front of them. Bowdoin back was the only back, not starting back, not to score a try. He came out and he came off at 62. Yeah, it was more than he came on.
00:15:36
Speaker
Even Yohane scored when he came off. Yep. His try was awesome. He was just like... Yeah. I was like, oh, boy, that's just... That's what they can do. And yes, it's a lesser opposition, but it's what they can do. But oh, one thing we have to talk about, though. How stupid is Ethan to Groot? No, he's not smart. You are not Groot. I can tell you that much right now. Oh, man, what are you doing, dude?
00:16:05
Speaker
Listen, I really am having a hard time fathoming how any of these guys manage to get themselves into such a position where they're almost not even ready to rap. Like they're just like, you know, I've made, laying tackles in a match, like yes, your shoulder is the point of contact because that's the hardest point in your body that you want to hit with. But how do you not have your arm like at least somewhat caught to rap and you're tucking it?
00:16:33
Speaker
I'm baffled as to what these techniques that are being taught are because it's across the sport. Part of it has to do with the speed of the sport and I get it.
00:16:48
Speaker
I'm sorry, but Namibia aren't playing the fastest that, that DeGroote's ever seen. That's, that's the thing. Like he doesn't, he's not, this isn't going, the game's not moving too fast for him and he's just like reacting to it. No, this was, this was just kind of intent and yeah, we don't do that. No, just silly. So this first event, so on three weeks down to two with the
00:17:14
Speaker
Oh, with the course. Oh, sorry. I don't have Australia Fiji on it. I just got to the, the playing it on the deck. Oh, we'll get, we'll get there. I know. We'll get there. Sorry. So I apologize for the distraction. I just forgot about it and reacted anyway. So let's go to Bordeaux. And it was,
00:17:43
Speaker
So I, I've been, I commended the South American teams earlier for their play and for just fronting up and bringing it. Also the fans have been bringing, especially like they were talking about it in this match. Like it was almost a home match for Chile. Yeah, it was wonderful atmosphere. What a great atmosphere that was. Absolutely heard the Chi Chi Chi Lele. Like, yeah, they were, they were going nuts. Yeah, it was awesome. And you know, there was,
00:18:11
Speaker
They, they were, they were in it for a bit, but then, you know, guys like Jonathan Ciampaccini had just decided that, no, you, you're not going to be in this anymore. I'm sorry. Yeah. Lately, if I had a good day too. Um, yeah. He was, he was almost immaculate. Right. Um, Theo was, was everywhere. I mean, you know what? He was man of the match if I'm not mistaken. Yes, he was. Um, because he was,
00:18:37
Speaker
Yeah, he's good. I mean, I didn't even realize that Vui was in because Theo was just crushing it so much. He was like the one lock I saw and then Vui came off and I was like, oh, that's why I saw Four doing some good things while Theo was doing great things. I mean, not that Vui had a bad game, not saying that. It's just that Theo just outshined him and pretty much every other forward. Right. I mean, he's out there. He's out in attack. He's out playing like a center. Yeah.
00:19:09
Speaker
The assist wasn't anything special other than just popping it off the deck. And what chairman, it was awesome. That was like, Oh, okay. That is awesome. If you have an athletic ability. Yeah. If you get the opportunity to score a try that way, uh, take it, do it. Right. Cause it's awesome. Like sideways one arm in the air. Yeah. Good, like, good job. Like restraining
00:19:30
Speaker
and doing it well too.
International Rugby Performances and Critiques
00:19:35
Speaker
it too. Like he was not dropping that thing. He put, you know, grabbed it with one hand, but he put two hands on it to
00:19:39
Speaker
to score the try, really, you know, classy stuff and, yeah, and technically sound. You knew what he was doing. Yeah. You knew what he was doing. All security is in all things. All that good stuff. And then the MLRs own Sam Amalolo. Getting a double at the end there to give them some cushion, but also to make sure that they got the bonus point as well.
00:20:08
Speaker
Yes, which was important. That's cool. Somebody gave him a soap log as fucking T back, by the way. Yeah, that dick. Well, I'm not. I can't say that's a dick move. Somebody probably has and doesn't realize they have it. Yeah. Honestly, that's probably what's it.
00:20:23
Speaker
Yeah, that's honestly probably what it is. But like, yeah, give the boys to you back. He's clearly got some memories attached to it as well as having it. He was 14. Yeah. And I was like, well, why would you take that to the World Cup? And I was like, wait, why wouldn't you take that to the World Cup? Yeah, this may be the only World Cup he sees. So I do not blame him one single bit for dragging that thing along. Not at all. Let's let's jump over to
00:20:53
Speaker
Wales, Portugal, over in Nice. It was not Nice for Wales for a while, that's for sure. It took a bit. It took a little bit, geez. I mean, this is the first World Cup for Portugal in a while. What'd they say, 16 years, something like that?
00:21:15
Speaker
So they were always, always going to just come, come with it and bring the noise. But it was, it was a struggle. And again, this is one of those change teams that Wells brought and Wells are not really a team that can afford to make that many changes more too often. They just don't have the depth. I think if this is not Portugal, then they are in deep shit.
00:21:37
Speaker
Yeah, it was that right. I don't think there's any way to put her out and put her like if they bring this team against if they bring this team or Anything that's a shadow of it to the Georgia match. They will lose That I can almost promise you Well, they better bring it this weekend so I mean first off Lee half penny is not playing this weekend Let's let's let's get it right. Please. No, what is he doing? There's that like your look George North is gonna be your 13. I
00:22:03
Speaker
You know, Adam will be in the lineup like that. It's not going to be Gareth Fucking Anscombe. This was this was Wales. You know, again, same thing as I said, they they took it not too seriously and it took a while for it to go right. So right. I I don't get Jenkins. I don't get Lydia. But yeah, why? Well, it's because it's Portugal. I mean, that's that's it as a as a whole, like you like, especially Lydia, Lydia, you're telling me you had no other freaking
00:22:31
Speaker
Loose forwards besides Dan Lady. Dan Lady is useless. He's just useless. Wait, hold on. Was he on the... No, he was starting. Wow. Okay, nevermind then. Yeah. No, he was starting. I would rather have Basham in there. I was like, wait, was he starting because Raphael had to drop? But no, that was Jack Morgan who came on. Yeah, Morgan came in for him.
00:22:52
Speaker
Like, yeah, I'd rather have Basham. I don't know if they hit, if it's punchy in the squad, but if he is, then yeah, put him in there too. Like, Lydia should be at home, honestly. He should be back home. He's not useful at all. Yeah, same thing with Halfpenny. You've got, you've got to have somebody else that can play back there. Well, that's why, I mean, they will, like, you know,
00:23:16
Speaker
What's his name? Sanjay's in the squad. He just wasn't playing today. He played round one. He did. Why you brought him to this? I haven't got a clue. Don't tell me experience. You have so much experience otherwise. You have so much experience otherwise. Adams, you've got north, you have bigger. In the backs, what else do you need? Tompkins has plenty of experience at this point.
00:23:43
Speaker
I don't want to hear that. That's not an excuse. He's useless. He's just filling a jersey. You're not even doing him any favors by dragging him along in this fashion where he's just giving his ass kicked every fucking game. It doesn't really help. Yeah, I don't get it.
00:24:02
Speaker
That is a very, very small window into the many problems, but it tells you a lot that are going on with the Welsh rugby. But anyway, yeah, good on Portugal. Unfortunately, the Pinto Redguard was a Redguard. You cannot do that. No ninja kicks, man. Right. Yeah, you can't get your foot up. Like, no, no. Yeah, you're off balance. OK, then.
00:24:26
Speaker
You're landing. Get your other leg down, man. Get your other leg down fast. That's all I can say. If you're that up-bounce and you're going to have to probably eat and fall on the floor. Here's the thing, though. You also have the opportunity to just throw a knee up. You don't have to throw your whole foot up. The foot up is an intense... I think you feel like that's intentional. Almost. Yep. Yeah. Red. Yeah. Never looks good either. You have to want to bring your foot up. Optics never look good in that case. Yeah. No matter who you are.
00:24:58
Speaker
And then let's jump over to Ireland Tonga. I'm a little disappointed for Tonga's sake. I really thought they'd bring more and... Yeah, there's that. I also realized that with that, Ireland are clearly here to run through people and just they're not messing around. They're here to
00:25:23
Speaker
make sure that people understand that they are a contender for this World Cup. Right. I think that's part of the, you know, what happened in this game as well. They just they really laid a marker down and says, we are not here to fuck around. We are here to get the job done. And that's what excites me about them, like potentially playing. Playing France later in this, because. Like Ireland are bringing a very, like you said, it's a very different approach. France are very taking a very French approach. OK, we'll get there like we're going to develop, we're going to build.
00:25:52
Speaker
It's going to be a crescendo at the end. Ireland are like, we're here on a fucking business trip and business is booming. So we're going to just keep doing business. And like, you know, like they drag him off the off the pitch at half and throw him in the shower. Yeah, like they're. I there's absolutely validity to both methods. I do like Ireland's better.
00:26:20
Speaker
because it's certainly more fun to watch. Well, there's that too. But and it's and it's also just no, we're like we like we're training to do this mission. And so we have to do it here. Otherwise, we're not going to do it then. Like they know themselves enough to know that like there's not a build to this is it. It's it's it's you know, you do that winter go home mentality starting from day one and you'll practice that. I thought that would be my preferred method. Yeah. I'm also happy to see that Finley Billim is is
00:26:50
Speaker
He's okay. He's, he's cleared. Yep. He's good. Um, and so I want to give a couple of props to Tonga. First of all, via Fafita, like looking like he definitely should have come off 20 odd minutes in, give or take another 20 guided up for what? How long did it take him to come off? 60 minutes till 60. Yeah. Good for him. So loads of credit to him. Um, score obviously scored. So that speaks to his town and household, his desire to want to be here and
00:27:20
Speaker
You know, I don't think it's not a desire that people don't want to be here, but some people would definitely take the easy road if they could. Yeah. And he's like, Nope, you will have to drag me off in a body bag. I am not coming off this thing. So I give him, I give him loads of credit and yet, you know, the talking team played with spirit, which was something we know is going to happen. It's just right. Fakito played with monstrous spirit. He, he showed up. Um,
00:27:45
Speaker
Soleimoni Kata showed up with Exeter chief spirit, which is not something you wanted to in this world cup. No, no. Rub Baxter too long is never good for one's health or right. Playing ability. Right. Not did not did not have like, you know, come off. Well, maybe several stupid errors. Yeah. But I mean, we get coached by Rob Baxter, these things. Yeah. And props, Johnny Sexton.
00:28:14
Speaker
All-time Irish points leader does it in with a bang, with a try. I'm pretty sure, did I see a smile on his face? I think I saw a smile on his face. I didn't notice that, I didn't see Peter Romani smiling. I didn't specifically look for it, but I didn't see it. It might've been like, again, just less curvature in his frown. Yeah. Unless it goes up.
00:28:43
Speaker
I remember when Sexton broke on the scene and I was like, this kid's going to replace Roronogara, really? Yeah. He's done it. Yeah, he's done it. I do. I do remember that. That was. And, you know, and remember, we always thought he was just going to get killed. Like, I thought he was going to break before he would do this. Honestly, I'm shocked that he is back playing and at this level and.
00:29:09
Speaker
Well, good for him. I think so. There's two parts of that whole thing. And this is back to when Joe Schmidt was coaching, obviously, and there was only one thing Sexton was doing, which was taking the ball to line and dishing or possibly getting getting smashed and eating it. And so credit to the Irish coaching staff, Andy Farrell, for
00:29:30
Speaker
making him evolve and making him add to his game. And so you have this longevity. So we get to this point and a key member of the team. And I don't think there's anybody that would disagree. Like tell me that they're going to do this well with burn or Crowley and
00:29:46
Speaker
in the right now. Probably don't tell you that, you know, it's, it's hard. It's hard to say. So yeah, he's changed his game. You can teach an old dog new tricks, right? You have to, you have to. Cause like, you know, when you get slower, the things that you used to rely on, you got to change that up.
00:30:05
Speaker
And he's done a good job of that. Like he doesn't, he still takes it. He still crashes the line too often, but not as often as he used to know. And that's what, but the fact that he's added a wrinkle to his game is what makes that slightly more effective now. So yes. Cause he's not just getting lit up because people aren't like, Oh, he's going to do it this time. Like, right. Cause he does it every time. It's like, Oh shit. Now we got to defend this two on one that we weren't expecting to have to defend. That's all inside balls, all that good stuff. You know, it's all over the place. And I mean,
00:30:32
Speaker
credit overall to the Irish coaching staff. The attack looks just so much more better. So much better now than it did five years ago. Yeah. Yeah. It really does. So good on, good on Sexton. Um, got a few more points to accumulate. I imagine. So we'll see. Yeah, he's not done. Nope. He's not done. Not done this weekend included. Although I'm sure a few people would prefer. He didn't make too many points. Won't spend too much more time on the, the other matching Bordeaux on Sunday.
00:31:03
Speaker
I think the, for me, South Africa was always gonna win this match. There's no question about that. For me, what it looked like was,
00:31:10
Speaker
Some of the basics that Romania was getting wrong was what would annoy me if I was the coach. Whatever, you're losing to South Africa, big freaking deal. You can eat that. But what you look at and what you see is like, oh my God, these are such easy errors. Why are we screwing this up? The one thing that sticks out in my brain is obviously they got two in the back for defense. One guy drifts over.
00:31:35
Speaker
trying to follow the ball to the sideline and then starts walking back to the middle. The other guy is way on the other touch line or damn near close to it. And the villain realizes what's going on. He says, oh, if I can break this line, I'm gone. And sure enough, he breaks the line and nobody's near him because one guy was walking to the middle where they should have probably been jogging at least. And the other guy is way too far apart from it. And that's
00:31:56
Speaker
Bad communication, bad positioning, all those things. And those are things that you just weren't like, you pointed out in school film session, and then you turn around and look for a paper ball to throw at their head like, what is wrong with you? Come on, guys.
00:32:11
Speaker
Yeah. And it's one thing when, when a team like South Africa make puts, you know, puts kind of pressure on you to do, do things and you're right. It's another one. You just make mistakes. Cause you're just, your head's not where it needs to be. Cause like, that's the thing you're like, it's always, always, always about who plays the best rugby usually. And so just show them, you can play good rugby. Just that's, that's what you should be going into this match saying, like let's show them, you know, say like, you know, as the other, a lot of the other, um,
00:32:40
Speaker
Nations here that are showing up, you know, like your, your, uh, you know, Fiji has always been a threat, but like, you know, Portugal, Uruguay, like all these teams that have kind of shown that they can play, they can play at this level. Yeah. Chile. Um, and Romania kind of just pooped. Like anytime they had an opportunity to do something good, they, they pooped. Yeah. And that's like, you can't do that. Like you're not going to get many opportunities against South Africa. And yeah, maybe they put up 70 points on you.
00:33:10
Speaker
put up 15 like do so, you know, do enough, right. You can be like, yeah, we, you know, like.
00:33:16
Speaker
We scored points. We did it. And they tried early on. They tried for a penalty that they should have hit and they couldn't even hit that. Like it should have been like. And that was the whole point was to be like, yeah, let's just get points so we can say we got points and build off of it. You know, we're not going to win, but let's try it. And they just a honk. I mean, you can't have that. It's so me how much of a sweat goes right back. Really broke trying to score his hat trick. Not much. No.
00:33:42
Speaker
They had to really they really had to wedge in the his dad was a sprinter. Like they really had to wedge it in like. Yeah. And it's like, you know, stop like, no, he any, you know, a lot of scrumps would make that. But yes, he does. He does it faster than almost. I get it. Yeah. Also, I like him so much better than Faf. I like Faf at times. Don't get me wrong.
00:34:12
Speaker
Yeah. Give me a Cobus any day. He's so much fun.
00:34:21
Speaker
One thing I do want to address in terms of the South Africa team, the nonsense about Willy LaRue being one of the best fullbacks in the world died with this game. Yeah, he was shit. He was really bad. When it was even remotely competitive, he found ways to fuck it up so often. That's why I can't stand with him. He does some good things sometimes, but he also almost always counters it with something stupid and really schoolboy level error.
00:34:46
Speaker
And it baffles me why people think he's so amazing. And, you know, that's the thing I bought into it because I was like, OK, I've heard because I've seen him make some decent plays. But the thing is, it's it's it is a lot like Damien McKenzie at 10. You see the highlights from like, oh, dude, this must this guy's awesome. And it's like, no, no, no. If you watch him for 80 minutes, he does like three or four awesome things. But then he does like five or six just stupid
00:35:12
Speaker
shit has to read that, like, if he was class, he wouldn't be doing that. It's not like, you know, what makes you class isn't what you can do when you're at your best. It's what your floor is. Like, you don't make these mistakes. You don't do these things that are bad. And he doesn't pass that sniff test. No, he doesn't. And he didn't on Saturday or whatever. Sunday. Sunday. Yeah. And only that he doubles it down by
00:35:37
Speaker
being a prick on the field as well, especially the referees. It's like, dude, you are not good enough. Number one, don't be a prick to the referee. But number two, you're not good enough to be a prick to the referee. Like, get out of here. I just think we can all agree that he's the second best LaRue. Certainly. Yeah. Well, we're going to definitely stick by that one. No question.
00:36:00
Speaker
He'll still be the second best for LaRue, even though one's not gonna play for a while. Right, exactly. No, that's just the way it is at this tournament. He's the second best for LaRue. Yep. All right.
00:36:11
Speaker
Let's go. Lots to talk about here. Lots to unpack, but still end of
Historic Wins and Future Opportunities
00:36:20
Speaker
the day. Of course it is a day to celebrate cause Fiji get the win. That is the first thing in foremost. That is awesome. That was so much fun. That is not only awesome for the Fijians. That is awesome for rugby in general. It is, you know, it is. Yeah. But so we have,
00:36:40
Speaker
Yeah. And the one, I mean, I am like tearing my hair out watching this game. Like, Fiji, what are you doing? Stop. You're not. Your game is not go for post. Your game is to get it over the line. Right. But I swear. Easier for you guys. Come on. I swear there. Their idea was to lull England to sleep with penalties. Australia. But same. I'm sorry. Eddie's. Sorry. I've been drinking.
00:37:05
Speaker
They're Eddie's team into kicking for point and thinking it was a goal kicking match and then Fiji would score a try and that would be that. And you know what? At about 43 minutes, that looked really, really smart. Right.
00:37:20
Speaker
And then, you know, it kind of it was enough that was that's the I guess ultimately the point because when you've all got it the try first off the the marky mark try I Call absolute bullshit bullshit because not because of the quick line out not because the quick line that was awesome I can't believe they did that that mad respect to that that that like you deserve a try for that but you don't deserve the tribe because of what happened on the other end with the Playing the ball on the deck
00:37:46
Speaker
or playing the man on it. Like you got to release the tech, like all that. You can't do what you just can't do any of that. And nobody, nobody saw that.
00:37:54
Speaker
Nobody saw that. And I don't want to hear this business of, he didn't mean to. It doesn't matter that it's irrelevant in this sport. He didn't mean to. High tackles, I didn't mean to. You still get penalized for it. And at the end of the day, you're responsible for your own actions. And his actions were to... What was he even trying to do? If he wasn't trying to do that,
00:38:18
Speaker
What was he trying to do? I am. Because he knows he knows he can't touch the ball. His arm should not be going in that direction at all. So like he has no right to be doing that. So no, it's a penalty easily. So that that was bullshit enough itself. But ultimately, it didn't matter. Thank God. It did not matter because.
00:38:41
Speaker
You know, Australia just, they weren't prepared to score tries. And I tell you this much, we, oh, we, we got to talk about the Carter Gordon situation. Um, cause what the fuck do you do with him? Like you pull him at 50 minutes of a tight game that you absolutely need to win. You Eddie Jones him. Yeah. Yeah. Cut his balls off on in public in the world cup. Oh, okay.
00:39:07
Speaker
Are you saying that he knows that his spot is okay and that this is just a-
00:39:15
Speaker
Tactical for this game like we need your like your leg. I don't know That's very much not Eddie. Yeah, so I mean and this Ben Donaldson gonna play 10 now so Gross. Yeah, I've liked him as a fullback and like him because you know, he's he's Rarely touching the ball. Although wouldn't you know, sometimes he scored some tries. So like there's that yeah, I guess a tier two team. Yeah, but like I
00:39:44
Speaker
Yeah, I yeah, it's Like what do you do like you play mind games at the World Cup really like
00:39:53
Speaker
I don't want to hear this was the worst version of ourselves. This is you, Eddie. I'm sorry. This is your team. This is what you like to do. So if that was a lesser version of yourself, I don't know what better is because the margin of the two is not really high. The floor and the ceiling are very, very much right next to each other. I don't know what you're insinuating here. Have you not noticed that the way you have your players play the game makes them play worse?
00:40:21
Speaker
Right. Like it lowers their ability to play because you stop playing rugby. And you know what? And again, this is a thing against Fiji. You got to play some footy. You can't like, you can't just play rugby. You have to play some footy and, and Eddie's teams don't do that. They're like, no, no, no, that's not the way you play. So we're just not going to, we're just going to totally not pay attention to that or try that.
00:40:46
Speaker
And that's what happens. You got it like it's funny because they scored two tries. Australia did. But like, yeah, one was bullshit moments in garbage time. Yeah, really. And in between, you just didn't really give a fuck. And yes, so so Fiji built built up the scoreboard like the opposite way that I would want them to do it. But again, quite I do appreciate it. We are attack. I appreciate a great troll, actually. And so that's that's my hats off to Fiji.
00:41:16
Speaker
Coach Riawali, Riawali, fuck, I'm sorry, I've been drinking, I can't say it. I'm not gonna put you in here.
00:41:26
Speaker
Yeah. Like that was really well done. Good troll job. Yeah. Yeah. Hilarious. And you might not get it yet. Like you might get Eddie fired. Oh man. Nothing would be more justice. And you know, the, the rhetoric from Australian fans, well, we didn't care about this World Cup. All right. I call bullshit. Number one. Right. How, how look, they were looking forward to, to beating England in the, in the quarters. That was like the thing. Oh, Eddie'll get his revenge, mate. Good luck. You're going to have a hard time doing that now.
00:41:55
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. You don't like the big game, big game this weekend. That's going to be fine. I'm going to be looking forward to that. Lavani Bautia. Got to talk about him. 12 tackles made. Didn't miss any hit them all. Had three turnovers on the day. Yeah, I can play anywhere. Yeah, I know. I know guys are free and I love it. I absolutely love it.
00:42:23
Speaker
I mean, he overshadowed Mata and I thought Mata had himself a game too, but it was quiet. His body, it was just that much better. I mean, the whole of the pack really played their balls off. I'm like looking down the lineup. I'm like, yeah, taking value did okay too. And I saw him doing a bunch of stuff. Like that was good stuff. Madivacy was involved in some things. Eroni Maui, didn't he almost score a try again?
00:42:47
Speaker
Yeah, he was close. He didn't come nearly as close as the other one the other day, the other week. But man, you got to watch him. He's sneaky good, but now Bhatia was that much better. Yeah, really good. Really good stuff. Teddy Teller has been adequate. Yes.
00:43:07
Speaker
respect to what he's bringing to the table. He's absolutely busting out his best run. He's, he's brought calm where people were probably certainly people in the Fijian camp and on, you know, in the Fijian, um, on the Fijian side, we're probably a little panicked about Caleb months being gone. And yeah, without a doubt, Caleb months was the best 10. Right. But Teddy tell has definitely brought the calm and just sell the nerves. And he's done a good job of
00:43:32
Speaker
To me, that's controlling the game too. He's letting the players play. He's like, I'm not the guy. I'm going to get the ball to the guy in the right space. And that's his job. That's excellent tenery right there. Yep. Really good stuff.
00:43:50
Speaker
And that's all. Yeah. Good on Fiji. What that photo we saw was about how within two seasons they went from playing their first super rugby match, the Drua, to being in the first playoffs to beating Australia for the first time in Australia. In Australia, yeah.
00:44:18
Speaker
Yeah, that's that's big. It's and it's good to see that. Yeah, professionalism, because look, we're seeing actually we're seeing the results of Japan being out of this of Super Rugby now. They're they're falling off. Right. So they have they do have their own league units. It's getting it's getting better than the players. But it's just it is a little different, I will say it is. But like, you know, you look at the players who played in the who were actually really good in Super Rugby.
00:44:46
Speaker
All those guys are aging out and the players coming up behind just aren't quite ready for this level of competition. No, I got a little bit of work to do over there. There's good competition, like you said, but it's just not, it's not the same. This speaks more to
00:45:04
Speaker
the duty that World Rugby have to help these tier two countries develop. Right. And it's been a big call after this weekend because of how well tier two nations played. Right. It's seen calls for Chile to be in the in, you know, Argentina, obviously, Chile, like these countries to be led into the tournaments, like, because, yeah, they're going to they're almost there. They're not there yet, for sure. I think you just and I don't love the
00:45:35
Speaker
There's a there's a there's an answer somewhere in the middle with the world 15s and not Yeah, it's there's a weird answer somewhere in there but it definitely starts somewhere with
00:45:50
Speaker
having some sort of relegation from the Six Nations from the rugby championship where other teams can potentially jump in and to participate. We had something over here in the Americas for a long time. And if we can reestablish it, then that gives you a basis for a second tier of
00:46:10
Speaker
I would say probably TRC. I would love for the US to be playing against Chile and teams like that. Get back to it. Let's go because we owe them at this point as well. Invite Portugal too. We got scores to settle there.
00:46:26
Speaker
They got they got well they and they have their own there with the European championships as well So right I think you have the system shut up and then you got to figure out what you can do for Below that because the whole idea is obviously not to just grow, you know ten more countries. It's to grow everyone, right? So it's just yeah, it's it's there's an answer in there. I don't know what it is I think it's gonna take a lot of hashing out with people. Hopefully not so stupid That's not gonna happen
00:46:54
Speaker
But yeah, it's there somewhere. We don't have anything else to talk about, right?
Strategic Play Styles and Criticisms
00:47:01
Speaker
Oh, yeah. No, there wasn't. I don't think there were any other matches. No, nothing. Nothing noteworthy. Not so much. Oh, wait. Oh, shit. That was that there was that other one. Damn it. So, okay. My computer tells me there was another one. But I don't believe it for a second. No. So
00:47:23
Speaker
Japan really pissed me off because I saw what they were doing. When you're really going for the upset and you've got it right and it's evident early within the first 10 minutes or so that you've got it right.
00:47:48
Speaker
What are you doing kicking penalty kicks? You have to score tries. If you're going to win this, if you're going to make this upset, you're not going to do it off the table. You're going to do it by dotting it down, getting fives, not three, even if it's five, not seven, get five. That's so important. Every point matters. Every penalty kick is a sad penalty kick. It's a sad field goal. No sad field goals.
00:48:12
Speaker
And that's what they did. Oh, they had England every time they had it right to put them down on their own end. They wrote the book on how to beat England. And they they fucking went for penalty kicks instead of trying to put their balls on the table or just not piss me off. OK, sorry. Yeah, no. And I totally agree. I was you know, I was looking at the two penalties that they hit that were on the sideline. Those are the ones to like.
00:48:37
Speaker
It is hard to ignore the one that's right in front that you can probably hit when your ship face again That that's that was understandable, right? It's hard. It's actually harder to kick for corner and I don't know the Chester Scrum in this situation So you're going tap and go so it's like all right fine So but the ones on the sideline Yeah, you got at least kick one of those into the corner and get it over Mm-hmm and that one gives you a lead at halftime
00:49:01
Speaker
And to really put you want to talk about putting pressure on that right there puts pressure on right there when you're You have now demonstrated you can get over the line. What do you have? Mm-hmm type of stuff that is like The epitome of it really yeah, that was the only thing it was missing because England Yeah So so for so from what I can gather for
00:49:29
Speaker
of 160 minutes of road B, 140 of the minutes were waiting for opponents to make mistakes. That's what I'm gathering so far.
00:49:40
Speaker
And if that's your fucking game plan, I want nothing to do with it. Get out of here. Like the Loveland tribe came from really a boneheaded decision by Japan to go for a short, like a three person line. Are you kidding me? At least have a fourth person at the back so you can gather it if it goes over. Right. Like, dude, that is such a stupid, stupid error. Like if you're waiting for that level of error and that's your game plan. Right.
00:50:06
Speaker
I got nothing for you. I'm sorry. I'm down with you. You can pack it up and go home. I'm good. Because the other thing about it is that you don't even have to play perfect rugby to beat that. You can make some mistakes. You just have to deal with the right mistakes. Like you can deal with the knock on mid field. Yeah. Because if you, okay, you knock it on in like from the 10 to the 10.
00:50:29
Speaker
What are England going to do? They're going to either, if you take the scrum, okay, then we're going to kick and we're going to play some kick tennis. And then we end up maybe with, if we work it right, we get a line out right around there the next time we break down. Easy. And that's, that's again, what Japan did really well. They made the mistakes in the places where it's safe to make the mistakes because you just get another opportunity right on the back of it. Absolutely. You just got to start over.
00:50:56
Speaker
And so, okay, you start over, you work it down the field, you make a mistake, okay, you start over, and then eventually you score. But they didn't, again, the scores were threes instead of fives, and that was, that's it.
00:51:06
Speaker
I mean, the fucking Courtney lost off of Marler's head. I mean, are we banking on shit like that happening? Come on. Really? The silliest fucking shit. It's hilarious and shame on Japan for going to sleep. So that's their fault. 100 percent. Right. But really, are you banking on that shit to get you over the line? Because if you are, I'm going to laugh when you fall out of the quarterfinal. I'm sorry. Right. Also, it's just how it is. Also, how Eddie was it of
00:51:31
Speaker
Freddy Stewart does the thing he does the thing you have he's on this team for one reason and he does the thing he does it and you take him out immediately you're like wait wait wait why don't why don't you why don't we see him do the thing more oh he's done it once okay now he's just come off what now he has to come off really really and that's who you pulled from Marcus like come on dude i'm so over that whole thing right i'm over the so i'm gonna read you
00:52:00
Speaker
two stat lines and attack. Um, we got 76, 76 meters and, um, what do you have? I don't know how many, it doesn't matter. 76 carries one and one clean line break. And then we have, let's see if I can find them.
00:52:30
Speaker
12 meters carried and two defenders beaten. So which one do you think is Tui? Tui's the second one. Because the first one I think is Ben Earl. No, first one's pretty short. OK. Close though. Ben Earl also has 76 meters. OK. That's all right. And I know he had one clean break. So. Yeah.
00:52:52
Speaker
Yeah, two years and do shit. They had one clean break in the first half. And that was laws ran like kind of randomly out in space. Yes, I remember that somehow out there. You don't know what these are like. Yeah. So in 120 minutes rugby, you have to clean line breaks. You're telling me that's good stuff. Yeah, no. It's really not like you. You have to. You are clearly fooling yourself. I don't get it. And because here's the thing. People talk about Mano to lagi as as if he's Bondiaki.
00:53:22
Speaker
like that they're interchangeable and it's like he is like light years ahead of manu right now by far and i'm not saying that they make the big thing equate it that way but they talk about him as if he's like they're like oh manu does and they talk about things that bandiaki does that manu does not do like oh he charges hard he makes the big hits on the defensive and i'm like he just hits a couple times but like he doesn't run with the ball he doesn't beat anybody he doesn't run people over anymore like he just gets tackled
00:53:52
Speaker
Okay. Like then, you know, nope, it's, it's, it's a one man tackle. It's not, you know, maybe a second, you know, help, maybe a helper, but it's not like he's doing anything with the ball. So yeah, you can do a double tackle. He's not a threat to offload. He's literally just a, um, a pylon or a little bit of a bad mini battering ram. And I don't get it. There's, there is someone in this England squad and that was in this team that can do what Bundy has done lately.
00:54:21
Speaker
Yeah, exactly, and he was on your bench. You didn't bring him in until 69 minutes. What a joke. Yeah. Tell me, so everybody, I think the excuse that people give is, well, he doesn't have any experience. Well, you're a fruits to give him experience, number one. Number two, you gave him one start in this last year. It was against Italy.
00:54:47
Speaker
OK, it was against Italy, but he tore them apart. Right. Like it wasn't just a good performance because it was against Italy. He ripped them a complete new one. Italy was playing very well up to that point. That is probably the best England performance that we can think of in this calendar year. Really is. If we're honest. It really is. And and Italy like.
00:55:07
Speaker
Italy are good. It doesn't it's not even an it's against Italy anymore. There's no there's no that that's it's it's now a wow he did that against Italy not a oh wow he did that against Italy. It's the first one. And two we had doesn't do that against anybody. Yeah. Did Johnny may have any stat? Like what the fuck did he do? In the game? Like, I don't know. There were there were multiple times when even Catherine was yelling at both him and Ford and
00:55:37
Speaker
You know, oh, she doesn't know anything. Trust me. For somebody that has never touched the field in a rugby pitch, my wife knows more than most people do. Yeah. I don't even see her. She's yelling. She was yelling at Ford too, which was hilarious. And I was not instigating it at all. She was doing it well on her own.
00:55:54
Speaker
I was laughing when she was doing it. Because here's the thing, it's just so boring. It's just boring. It's not even like it would be one thing if it was like highly tactical and entertaining, as a lot of the other 10s play it. But just so boring. Right.
00:56:17
Speaker
Actually, I will say I did appreciate the fact that what his first little kick, like they were in the attacking end, but instead of doing a drop goal, he kicked a touch. He said, we're going to play down on this end, which is fine. It was like a five meter line out to Japan. I think that was Ludlum's try. I think that was Ludlum's try, yeah.
00:56:36
Speaker
There's your points. You got, you know, right there, seven points instead of three. That is tactical master classery. That right there. That would have been, yes, I agree. But we don't see that as often. We still, we have the high ball. Like that's, we don't see that enough. He got charged down three times. Yeah. Three kicks blocked. Right. What about like,
00:56:57
Speaker
Hammerhead, you're set up to attack, and then you decide to kick? No wonder, like he is goddamn lucky that that did not bounce into that guy's hands. Yeah, and he would have been the frickin', he would have been the frickin', you know, the sheep, and he would have been in trouble, whatever it is. But yeah. And then maybe we would have saw Marcus earlier, that would have been nice. But you know. Also, again, I mentioned his name, because I really want to talk about him. Ben Earl.
00:57:26
Speaker
Best player on this team. I tell you this. Best player on this team right now. This is why I say Tom Curry could never. Because Tom Curry is a good seven. He's a good six. He's a good six. He can't make that run that Ben Earl made. And Ben Earl does it consistently. That's like, oh, Ben Earl gets up and eats breakfast and does that.
00:57:54
Speaker
Don Curry might do it once in a while. You can trust him out there. This is the Ben Earl that we need more people to see. I don't think they see it enough, so they don't think it's there. Plus, it's England. They don't let him do that enough. If they really let this squad with just a few small changes, if they let him off the leash, they'd be the best team here.
00:58:24
Speaker
Yep. It's so frustrating. And instead it's, you know, yeah. 22 point yawn win. Like it's not even like you thumped them. It was really boring. An event every so often something, some rugby ended up taking place. When the rugby broke out, that's when they scored. Yeah. It's like, come on, dude. Yeah. It took them till squeaky bum time to get the final bonus point try against, let's be honest, a bad Japan team.
00:58:51
Speaker
Yeah, you know, and I liked a lot of what there were a lot of things that a lot of the Japanese players were doing. I like Nagara. I think he was being creative and just being unpredictable in a lot of ways, which made England lose their hair a little bit. And I like Lameki. I think he's he's going to do some good things going forward here. Master Shima was looked like somebody that we remembered it, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Ripper thing was ripping him all over the place. There were some great things that Japan did. But again, they just weren't playing.
00:59:21
Speaker
as well as they could. Right. Not as aggressive as they needed to be in key times. No. I mean, it was close at half. That's the worst part was how close it was at half. Something like that. Yeah, 13.9 at half. Yeah. So close. Yeah, that's right. There was a, yeah. It was, and it was all, yeah, because they scored, they kicked a penalty latest or something. I can't remember what, but yeah.
00:59:49
Speaker
Yep. Really disappointing. Really, really disappointing. So you get the game right there again, and you just kind of, yeah, just let it slip. And it's nothing to, but again, nothing, but.
01:00:03
Speaker
not want to not want to finish. That's that's unfortunate. I want to see a better match than this. That's all to write just it. And it's only because it's only frustrating because like we know it's the bet. The better stuff is within. But it's just seems people are hell bent on keeping the shackles on and not letting anything fun happen. Right. So put it this way. Like if
01:00:29
Speaker
If England are scoring tries for fun and they're just they're opening it up, they're playing like loose rugby, just a little bit loose. Like so that maybe they're not creating a diamond right now. Yeah, like that. What's his name? Joe Marlar headbutt try. Would be hilarious, and it would be something like it would be a celebration, and instead it's kind of just clownery.
01:00:57
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Yeah. And it's like, okay, so this is what takes versus score trying to play really. Yeah. It's, it's, it's the whole, um, Bull Durham. Um, yeah. Like, you know, when, when you win 20 in the show, you can have fungus on your shower shoes and the press will think you're colorful. You know, you're in the minors. So people just think you're a slob kind of thing. Like that's slobbery. It's not, it's not like color and flair. It's just.
01:01:26
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Yep. All right. Well, we'll get a couple of palette cleansers this weekend, I think. Yeah. Should be fun. But so I, I want to see what the TV numbers are this weekend because England's going to play during Premier League football.
Viewership Concerns: Rugby vs. Premier League
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They're going to play a really bad team on top of that. I bet you they're going to drop like a hammer. And why, why, why wouldn't they rather watch Premier League football than that game? Yeah. Personally, you know, I don't think my team's playing at that point, but you know, point being.
01:01:58
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