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Forum: Sporting Events 10-17-2007, 09:04 PM
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Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

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If teams know that making a penalty is more difficult, the defending team will infringe more than they do now.

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Yeah, IMO the big problem right now is you have offenses...
Forum: Sporting Events 10-16-2007, 12:06 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

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I do believe though they should change the value of a drop kick to 1 point and therefore see some more attacking rugby. See how England would fare then???

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LOL that's a...
Forum: Sporting Events 10-15-2007, 01:39 AM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

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South Africa have to win the final to save the game of Rugby.
England have been down right appauling right up to this world cup and a team to be beaten 36-0 in pool games is a disgrace to...
Forum: Sporting Events 10-08-2007, 12:24 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

Forward passes are common, and on Michalak's run there the NZ defense was in tatters. Certainly refs are not perfect, but I still just can't figure out why the IRB is appointing someone with only 1...
Forum: Sporting Events 10-07-2007, 08:53 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

Wow, this has to be one of the classic NZ chokes. They totally dominated the game in every phase except defense. Their lineout, scrum, forwards, possession, just completely dominated France and it...
Forum: Sporting Events 10-06-2007, 01:59 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

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France has no chance. NZ is going to destroy them.


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That's what I thought, but the oddsmakers only have NZ as a 14 point favorite, which is not huge; I would think...
Forum: Sporting Events 10-03-2007, 09:55 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

Finally saw the Wales-Fiji game. Wow, exciting match and great rugby, definitely worth a download. A couple of the tries by both sides were really beautiful. Fiji's style of everyone crashing and...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-20-2007, 11:45 AM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

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Have you seen them play? I haven't seen Ireland yet but England looked better than France or Argentina.

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I just want to say I could not have been more wrong, nobody in...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-15-2007, 12:48 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

Haha, I love how happy Portugal is about their one try /images/graemlins/wink.gif
Forum: Sporting Events 09-14-2007, 04:50 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

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What channel is this being shown on in the US?

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It's on Versus, but with a big delay. Eng-SA is Sunday at 3 PM for me.

You can also find torrents and sopcasts using...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-12-2007, 09:45 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

Cool thing about the history of rugby in the US :

http://www.ocrugby.com/1162241.html

Most of the best US rugby teams are in CA but there are hot spots all over. The SF bay area has lots of...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-11-2007, 06:57 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
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England looked better than anyone in Pool D.

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I find that hard to believe

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Forum: Sporting Events 09-11-2007, 06:14 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

There's a proposal floating around to cut the entrants to 16 nations instead of 20, which would make all the games more competitive. Obviously the idea of letting the weaker nations in is to hope it...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-04-2007, 08:12 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

Hehe, great clips, love the comments in Youtube.

I've seen a lot of people saying SA has the best back line in the world, and that could take them past NZ.
Forum: Sporting Events 09-03-2007, 04:04 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

Hey hey, a few matches are going to be shown on Versus in the US :

http://www.versus.com/nw/article/view/40560/?UserDef=true&catID=76
Forum: Sporting Events 08-25-2007, 09:32 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

Hey Birts, one thing I don't understand is why the UK sends separate teams from England, Wales and Scotland. It seems like separated they have almost no chance to do well, but with one team they...
Forum: Sporting Events 08-23-2007, 09:21 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

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We're going to get owned. That is all.


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We as in the USA right? Yeah if we can beat Tonga that would be huge; I read some quotes from US players saying their goal is...
Forum: Sporting Events 08-23-2007, 09:13 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
Re: *** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

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Serious question. Does Fox Sports World still exist? I thought it got replaced by the Fox Soccer Channel, but maybe they just added that and moved all the soccer programming and now they...
Forum: Sporting Events 08-23-2007, 05:07 PM
Replies: 237
Views: 1,420
Posted By cbloom
*** Official 2007 Rugby World Cup

The every-four-years Rugby World Cup starts Sept 7

I'm guessing not many people on 2+2 care, but it's a huge big deal for the south half of the world (well the Caucasian part of the south anyway)....
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