Portugal's exits from their 22 have been brilliant. Kicking long. Two x 50-22s keeping Wales honest.

@Jailbreak7 said in RWC Week 2: Wales v Portugal:

Portugal's exits from their 22 have been brilliant. Kicking long. Two x 50-22s keeping Wales honest.

Os Lobos defence has been excellent as well

Wales' ruck speed has been abysmal in that opening 40, Gats needs to give them a good rollicking at h/t.
Portugal totally committed as you'd expect.

Dumb and shit
A bad combo

Making really hard work of this

@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 2: Wales v Portugal:

Dumb and shit
A bad combo

Making really hard work of this

TBF, Portugal's breakdown work is excellent.

Great planned move by Portugal and a great try.

@Victor-Meldrew Love that move!

Wales have been bloody awful tbh. But kudos to Portugal.

Wales score but, you have to say, against the run of play.

LRZ set up the try really well.

Scratch that.

The refs have abdicated responsibility for showing red cards since the bunker came in.

Entertaining match and Os Lobos have been really good. Excellent defence, discipline and kicking game.

We keep saying it every four years, but World rugby really does need to get it's act together and find a way to get teams like Portugal regular games against the top sides.

@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC Week 2: Wales v Portugal:

Great planned move by Portugal and a great try.

A joy to watch

Shittest RC ever

Rugby incident

Move on

@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 2: Wales v Portugal:

@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC Week 2: Wales v Portugal:

Great planned move by Portugal and a great try.

A joy to watch

Simple, effective and well executed- just like Portugal's play.

Did not deserve that BP but I’ll take it

@Steve said in RWC Week 2: Wales v Portugal:

The refs have abdicated responsibility for showing red cards since the bunker came in.

We are seeing a ridiculous number of Reds IMHO

@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 2: Wales v Portugal:

Shittest RC ever

Rugby incident

Move on

Wow!

Totally agree.

@Victor-Meldrew some of the "tier 2" sides are great at these sorts of plays. Japan have always been innovative.
Makes you wonder why sides like Wales with supposedly "better" players can't produce moments like that.

@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 2: Wales v Portugal:

@pooler-fan said in RWC Week 2: Wales v Portugal:

I must admit my last memory of a Portugal rugby side was when Wales beat them by 100+ points back in the 90's sometime.
I'd kinda dismissed this game as a nothing match where we'd play our back-ups & win at a canter. After watching Uruguay last night I had an uneasy feeling about this game, made worse by googling their recent results & seeing they only lost by 10 points against Italy last year.

Stand down

We'll stuff them

I'm saying nothing

I feel like what we are seeing an interesting pattern at the world cup and during the warmups.

Once tier 1 teams go into their 2nd string they really are only performing marginally better than these tier 2 teams.

So the inverse is that with proper investment and a few stand out players tier 2 are not that far away.

I would watch a tier 2 rugby championship if the quality of rugby was near what we are seeing. Even more so if it allowed promotion to a tier 1 comp. Rugby championship or 6 nation's.