Juicy weekend of rugby, kick offs in GMT

Friday

Ireland vs New Zealand - 2010

Saturday

England vs Australia - 1510
Italy vs Argentina - 1740
France vs Japan - 2010

Sunday

Wales vs Fiji - 1340
Scotland vs South Africa - 1610

Share your predictions, post some reactions, and bonus question: how many cards this weekend?

  • Olap@lemmy.worldOPM
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    6 days ago

    Ireland by 5
    England by 3 (lol)
    Argentina by 5 <- my game of the weekend to watch
    France by 30
    Fiji by 15 (epic lols)
    South Africa by 10 (tears in the rain)

    Card count: 8

    • TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz
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      6 days ago
      • Ireland by 15
      • England by 21
      • Argentina by 12
      • France by 30
      • Fiji by 4
      • South Africa by 12
      • All Blacks XV (the only game im planning on checking out) by 12
      • Olap@lemmy.worldOPM
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        6 days ago

        Missed the XV match, Georgia won’t be up to much. I’ll say NZ by 23

        • TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz
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          4 days ago

          It was definitely more of a grind than a romp. Is that the normal rugby pitch in Montpellier - it was very cutup & muddy even before they started the game!

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            3 days ago

            No, quite surprised at that. Did they use a football pitch, or was it the rugby stadium?

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              3 days ago

              Had to google bc outside of the 5 big international stadiums I have no idea where any of these grounds are. Its apparently GGL Stadium which is the ground for Montpellier Hérault who are a top 14 side so i’d assume are the Montpellier.

              Its quite a nice looking stadium (apart from the state of the pitch), but another opportunity to be shocked that a metropolitan population of 800k or so has their rugby team in a 16k capacity ground - that’s not much bigger than McLean Park which services maybe around 160-180k :)

              A reminder that even though there’s loads of money in Rugby in France and it is big, its not football big!

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        6 days ago

        My Ireland pick is down to Razor’s Crusaders bias picking 2 of his boys at hooker this year which has left the ABs with a known weak lineout thrower in Aumua and an understudy who was just as flakey at Super Rugby this year. All while leaving a Super Rugby winning hooker and one of our most reliable throwers at home.

        The bias got even worse with Taylor out injured this week they called Brodie McAlister into the squad ahead of Eklund - so there’s 3 Crusaders Hookers out of 4 in the ABs squad this week, its actually stupid given the two not named Taylor haven’t looked even close to pushing him out of his spot.