What the fuck is going on in this game, just saw the score?
RWC Week 4: Fiji
Match thread
Georgia
Sometimes a YC or defending a penalty close to the tryline can jolt a team out of complacency.
@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 4: Fiji v Georgia:
Fiji wins from here and Georgia kick themselves
Blew 2 tries. Should have been 10-15 points ahead
If Georgia hang on and win this, who goes through from this group? Good thing Australia are hosts of the next World Cup so that they won’t have to go through qualifying even if they finish 4th.
@sparky said in RWC Week 4: Fiji v Georgia:
If Georgia hang on and win this, who goes through from this group? Good thing Australia are hosts of the next World Cup so that they won’t have to go through qualifying even if they finish 4th.
Fiji beat Portugal they go through
Fiji played their get out of jail card
They play like this against England they’ll get hammered
Fijian 21 no attempt to tackle the Georgian hooker
Another easy penalty missed by every fucking official
dropgoal attempt reminiscient of Matt Dunning in its idiocy. Fiji should either have gone for the third try and try and get the 4th one after the restart, or just kept the ball.
@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 4: Fiji v Georgia:
Fiji will be lucky to beat Portugal let alone England
They were horrible but did enough to beat Georgia, should be able to do enough to beat Portugal. England will be sucking their own dicks at thought of avenging their Twickenham loss a few weeks ago.
Georgia played Fiji perfectly.
Committed nothing to the ruck and hence had a wide full defensive line. Fiji didn’t really know what to do
@Tordah said in RWC Week 4: Fiji v Georgia:
@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 4: Fiji v Georgia:
Fiji will be lucky to beat Portugal let alone England
They were horrible but did enough to beat Georgia, should be able to do enough to beat Portugal. England will be sucking their own dicks at thought of avenging their Twickenham loss a few weeks ago.
Our boys aren’t that supple and probably wouldn’t like the taste.
Is this more of a SH thing?
@The-Irishman said in RWC Week 4: Fiji v Georgia:
England with a ridiculously easy route to the semis going by this performance from Fiji.
Yeah, it’s a reward for being runners up at the last RWC, if we’d been bundled out in the QFs it would have been different. But I’m being insensitive…
@Catogrande said in RWC Week 4: Fiji v Georgia:
But I’m being insensitive…
Nah, You're jut nervous you'll be underdone for the semi
@Catogrande said in RWC Week 4: Fiji v Georgia:
@The-Irishman said in RWC Week 4: Fiji v Georgia:
England with a ridiculously easy route to the semis going by this performance from Fiji.
Yeah, it’s a reward for being runners up at the last RWC, if we’d been bundled out in the QFs it would have been different. But I’m being insensitive…
Don't worry, I'm not the sensitive type.
Watching back now at 37 minutes.
Fiji seem determined to sabotage every attacking raid they have through shit offloads.
@NTA said in RWC Week 4: Fiji v Georgia:
Fiji 17 very lucky not to get reviewed for a cleanout around 62nd minute
Was one of many
@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 4: Fiji v Georgia:
@NTA said in RWC Week 4: Fiji v Georgia:
Fiji 17 very lucky not to get reviewed for a cleanout around 62nd minute
Was one of many
A bit like neck rolls- I've only seen one penalised so far this tournament. They used to be all the rage
Georgia replacement back took the wrong option at the end. Support inside and he kicks ahead. Georgia have pace but so do Fiji.
Mostly a poor game in terms of skill execution but intense
High pressure, shit or bust, RWC Pool play will often result in an error strewn game
But by Christ it was riveting right to the end
Fiji centre Tuisova's son died shortly before the game. https://www.planetrugby.com/news/josua-tuisova-told-seven-year-old-son-had-died-hours-before-georgia-game
devastating stuff. Unreal he still played.
@Tordah said in RWC Week 4: Fiji v Georgia:
Fiji centre Tuisova's son died shortly before the game. https://www.planetrugby.com/news/josua-tuisova-told-seven-year-old-son-had-died-hours-before-georgia-game
devastating stuff. Unreal he still played.
Hugely sad. Am now on the Fiji bandwagon ... if we perchance don't advance. (I'm allowed to be selfish.)
Reminds me of the movie 'The Summer of '92', about the Danish soccer team at the '92 Euros (kinda fun touching moving movie).
The daughter of one of their players, Kim Vilfort, was dying of leukaemia during the tournament (true story), and he kept heading back to be with her, and the family kept sending him back to play (Denmark to Sweden not such a long way).
She apparently died shortly after the tournament.
Thoughts (and prayers) with Josua and family.
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