aha, that was pretty fun. Was supporting USA (even bought a scarf!!) which was really fun for the first 20 minutes or so. looked like they had a chance, but nope :(

 

poor america

dominant New Zealand!

This morning in France, I saw in the TV, France-New Zealand.

I'm sad because France lost against New Zealand. But France is in 1/4 of finale. I don't know if France will win the World Cup because New Zealand is very very strong. Besides, New Zealand is among the favorites.

Sorry if my English is not good.

Mark Cueto grabbed a hat-trick inside 11 first-half minutes

 

Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania

 

England put themselves within sight of the World Cup quarter-finals with a comfortable bonus-point victory over Romania in Dunedin.

 

Mark Cueto scored a first-half hat-trick and fellow wing Chris Ashton a brace to put them 34-3 up at the break. Ashton completed his hat-trick after the restart as England ran in 10 tries in all in a much-improved performance.

 

If Scotland beat Argentina, the Scots and England will both qualify, their meeting deciding the pool winner. The winner of the group will play the runner-up from Pool A - likely to be France or New Zealand.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/14812577.stm

Jane's try - New Zealand's second - came in the middle of a first-half flurry

 

Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 37-17 France

 

New Zealand brushed aside World Cup bogey team France to take a decisive grip on Pool A.

 

Adam Thomson, Cory Jane and Israel Dagg tries helped the All Blacks into a 19-0 lead before France managed a Dimitri Yachvili penalty just before the break.

 

Dagg added his second try before Maxime Mermoz claimed an interception score.

 

Dan Carter then added a drop-goal and although Francois Trinh-Duc claimed a converted France try, Sonny Bill Williams added a fifth for New Zealand.

 

The only consolation for the French is that they now look destined to finish second in the group, which would take them into what is considered to be the easier side of the draw.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/14812624.stm

I'm heading down to the pub to watch Wales beat the crap out of Namibia,should be great!!!

 

 

New Zealand has been crazy with rugby fans over the last few weeks,it's great!! We sure gave the french a hiding,they were so cocky walking up queen street with their flags,and yelling viva la france etc..

Just ask the French how many world cups they have won ;)

They've won more six nations Grand Slams annoyingly enough.

The frogs,they havent won nothing. :lol:

New Zealand has been crazy with rugby fans over the last few weeks,it's great!! We sure gave the french a hiding,they were so cocky walking up queen street with their flags,and yelling viva la france etc..

Excuse us for supporting our country (even more since the french there have make a 24h fly to get there!!) :lol: NZ support its country too so why the hatred :rolleyes:

 

Just ask the French how many world cups they have won ;)

I will not respond to this shameless attack :whistle: but I agree on the fact that England will more than probably crash us if we meet on 1/4 finals :shame:

 

They've won more six nations Grand Slams annoyingly enough.

:D :kiss:

 

 

Won't be able to the Tonga/France game it will be broadcast here on a cable channel AND at 7 AM :bomb:

In all honesty I was glad when you got the grand slam last time round, cos it kept those big headed England players quiet. Their best player just kicks goals while France's best players score tries and it's more of a team effort. Heck, even England's winning score at the 2003 final was a drop goal.

 

Looking forward to seeing Les Bleus beat Tonga!, will be setting the alarm for an early morning!.

The frogs,they havent won nothing. :lol:

Correction

 

Football:-

Marseille- 1992-1993 UEFA Champions League

Paris St Germain- IFFHS World Team of the Year 1994/UEFA co-efficient #1 1998

National team won the 1998 World Cup and 1982 plus 2000 European Championships.

 

Rugby:-

Won 5 Nations 12 times (8 shared)

Also won the six nations 5 times with the most Grand Slams during this era and 9 in the history of the whole tournament when it became a 5 nations in 1910. England have 12, but it should be noted France did not join until thirty years after it started as a 4 Nations.

 

Although your wording is "They haven't won nothing", you are right cos they have something, but your wording is no way what you actually meant.

I meant they havent won anything in the rwc so far...:rolleyes:

 

I do support france,as I'm half french,but I also support the All Blacks and England.

 

 

Chill out aye..:lol:

Excuse us for supporting our country (even more since the french there have make a 24h fly to get there!!) :lol: NZ support its country too so why the hatred :rolleyes:

:

 

 

Where does it say I hate the french?? My dad is a frenchman,so yeah.....:lol:

I meant they havent won anything in the rwc so far...:rolleyes:

 

I do support france,as I'm half french,but I also support the All Blacks and England.

 

 

Chill out aye..:lol:

 

I thought you came from the great kingdom of Norway?

I thought you came from the great kingdom of Norway?

 

 

Nope,I was born in Switzerland,and now living in new zealand.

Nope,I was born in Switzerland,and now living in new zealand.

 

Wow. That's quite a change for you then. What made you move to New Zealand? Just interested because moving abroad is something I'd love to experience in the future.

 

Rugby World Cup 2011 Pool A: France 14-19 Tonga

 

France limped into the World Cup quarter-finals despite losing to Tonga in one of the biggest shocks in the history of the tournament.

 

France took a 6-3 lead through two Dimitri Yachvili penalties before Tonga went ahead courtesy of Sukanaivalu Hufanga's converted try.

 

A Kurt Morath penalty made it 13-6, Yachvili cutting the margin with his third penalty soon after the break.

 

Morath added two more kicks but Vincent Clerc's late try earned a bonus point.

 

Morath also missed three second-half penalties and a drop-goal, while Tonga bombed several tries as they dominated for long periods of the match.

 

But the losing bonus point means France have qualified for the last eight anyway.

 

Had they failed to finish within seven points, Canada could still theoretically have pipped them to second place in the group with a bonus-point win over New Zealand, but Clerc's late intervention removes that remotest of possibilities.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/14830039.stm

 

Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland

 

England stumbled into the World Cup quarter-finals and almost certainly put Scotland out despite an error-ridden victory at Eden Park.

 

Scotland needed a victory by eight points or more to be certain of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.

 

But two penalties and a drop-goal from Jonny Wilkinson, despite a host of other wayward attempts, plus a late try from Chris Ashton were enough to send a misfiring England through.

 

Scotland must now hope Georgia produce a huge upset and beat Argentina by at least eight points in Sunday's final Pool B match to prevent them failing to make the last eight for the first time in World Cup history.

 

England can look forward to a quarter-final next weekend against a similarly struggling France, a reward they scarcely deserve on the evidence of this disjointed display.

 

With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March.

 

Fly-half Ruaridh Jackson departed early with injury but Chris Paterson nailed a penalty from wide out left to give Scotland an early lead, and Jackson's replacement Dan Parks added three more points with a penalty which skimmed over the crossbar.

 

England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.

 

It took until the 33rd minute for England to get on the scoreboard, Wilkinson finally finding his range from out left, but a knock-on from James Haskell from the re-start put his team straight back under pressure.

 

England were ponderous with ball in hand, their runners static when taking the ball and their lines obvious, while their front row struggled badly in the scrum.

 

Scotland, so disappointing in defeat to Argentina a week ago, tryless against the comparative minnows of Georgia, carried all the menace and mobility.

 

Scotland had the territory and the momentum, forcing England into almost twice as many tackles and rattling them repeatedly at set-pieces.

 

Matt Stevens was crumpled by Euan Murray in another scrum, allowing Parks to kick for the corner, and when Richie Gray's clean take from the subsequent line-out set up a series of drives under the posts, Parks was back in the pocket to belt over a drop-goal to make it 9-3 at the interval.

 

Sent back out by Johnson with fire in their bellies, England at last began to threaten as Manu Tuilagi smashed Sean Lamont and then sent Delon Armitage racing down the left touchline.

 

A sniping run from Ben Youngs took England deep into Scotland territory again, and when Wilkinson was fed the ball with time and space in front of the posts the lead looked certain to be cut to just three.

 

But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.

 

It then took a desperate piece of defending from Ben Foden to deny Scotland a try in the left-hand corner, the full-back reaching out an arm to knock the ball from Simon Danielli's grasp, Nick de Luca knocking on with the line at his mercy.

 

But another infringement at the scrum offered Paterson the chance to extend the lead further, and the full-back curled his penalty over to make it 12-3.

 

That scoreline had Scotland going through, only for Wilkinson to belt over a defiant drop-goal from distance with his right boot with 22 minutes left to throw his team a World Cup lifeline.

 

Another Wilkinson attempt was charged down before a fine clearing run and kick from Ashton and burgled Scottish line-out worked a penalty chance from wide left.

 

Wilkinson curled the ball between the uprights to make it 9-12 and launch the first chorus of "Swing Low" all evening long, only to come up short from near halfway as the game became increasingly ragged.

 

Tom Croft's covering dive denied Gray in the corner from Parks' astute cross-kick before Joe Ansbro almost wriggled clear on the left wing.

 

But with England trailing 9-12 and the game entering its final moments, replacement Toby Flood threw a fine mis-pass out to Ashton on the right wing, and the Northampton man dived over to end Scotland's hopes, Flood adding the extras.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15124512.stm

England v France QF1

England have been really crap this whole tournament. Their only convincing win was against the Romanians, but that team are crap anyway and struggled to qualify. Come on France and beat those red rose pricks!.

Anyways, while we are on the subject, why do they have crap teams like Romania in it anyway?, the sooner we get rid of these crap teams the better. You would never see this at the football world cup, there's only one crap team every four years in that.

 

England keep winning with last minute tries or kicks, talk about outstaying your welcome. They will be mauled over by the All Blacks when they meet them. Respect to the Tongans for their win, 4 years ago they were so unlucky against the Springboks and met the red rose at the wrong time, just as soon as Wankinson returned from injury.

 

I only support England when it comes to Cricket. Football and Rugby can get stuffed as far as "Green and pleasant land" is concerned, having said that, I always support English football clubs in Europe bar Man United.

I didn't watch the game (France vs Tonga) but I woke up to see we LOOSE 14 to 19 to Tonga?!! :facepalm: I'm glad I didn't see it, I would have break my TV by anger...xD The boys' mind really aren't on the tournament, I dunno what's happening to our boys...

 

Next: ENGLAND....Well it can end very badly or very well...Haven't the slightest idea how it could turn up. Our boys are capable of the better or the worst on this tournament, so who knows what can happens?! But I'll put my money on England. (YES, I know :p )

Anyways, while we are on the subject, why do they have crap teams like Romania in it anyway?, the sooner we get rid of these crap teams the better. You would never see this at the football world cup, there's only one crap team every four years in that.

 

England keep winning with last minute tries or kicks, talk about outstaying your welcome. They will be mauled over by the All Blacks when they meet them. Respect to the Tongans for their win, 4 years ago they were so unlucky against the Springboks and met the red rose at the wrong time, just as soon as Wankinson returned from injury.

 

I only support England when it comes to Cricket. Football and Rugby can get stuffed as far as "Green and pleasant land" is concerned, having said that, I always support English football clubs in Europe bar Man United.

 

Romania had to qualify for the world cup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Rugby_World_Cup_%E2%80%93_Europe_qualification)

looking at some of those results Germany must've been shockingly bad!!