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I don't know too much about RU, but the World Cup is imminent, so I thought I'd see if a RWC thread might get any traction. I know we do have a few RU fans here, so hopefully they will chip in.

England flew out a few days ago, & they got stranded in Japan I believe, but are presumably in-situ now.

I know nothing of the other Home Nations, but I assume they are all there.

Here's the England squad with the special livery BA 787;


(http://i.imgur.com/4sK8EbH.jpg) (https://imgur.com/4sK8EbH)

Can't resist 1 more aircraft photo, it seems many Airlines are making a big deal of the RWC, here's the Emirates A380;



 (http://i.imgur.com/gG7VLK9.jpg) (https://imgur.com/gG7VLK9)

I was reminded of the RWC when I happened to see this Tweet, featuring Martin Johnson. In my (possibly naive) eyes, he was THE best Captain I can recall, in RU, or maybe any other sport. Proper man & a real leader. He's "Martin Johnson CBE", and if any Sportsman deserved a Sir-ness (another debate altogether) it's Martin. 



https://twitter.com/rugbyworldcup/status/1171316692120756224

Tighty (amongst others) used to be pretty handy with the RU tips here, and whilst I'm sure he'll comment, doubt you'll see too many tips as he is doing a RWC Special (£50) for Betting Emporium. 

I'm not here to spam him or them, but if I were buying a RWC tipping package, that's the one I'd go for.

Anyway, there you go, I've got my work to do Next Door now, but let's hope the thread seeding works & we get a bit of traction.

Over-under on next post on the thread (excluding me), is probably about a week, but you never know, someone may pick it up. 

Seem to recall a blonde mentioning he was going to the RWC, but can't recall who it was. Woodsey maybe?

Photos or it did not happen.

Here's the Oddschecker link;


https://www.oddschecker.com/rugby-union/rugby-world-cup/rugby-world-cup-2019/winner

Yeah heading out on 11th Oct for last group game, also will be at both England’s potential QF’s and both semis if they get that far. Heading over to Seoul for a few days also in between games.

For anyone interested tix for Eng v Fra in Paris next Feb are available on the official french rugby site. They are always easy to get if you know the date they go on sale.

This is such a great trip! Hopefully we get the England Wales QF 🤞

Rob Howley: Wales backs coach sent home from World Cup over alleged betting breach


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/49733089

Have to be mental in this day and age to think you're ever going to get away with stuff like that.

Best thing to happen to Wales for a while. Stephen Jones going out now. Far, far better coach than Howley.

Good to see you back on here, hope you hang around for the RWC.

Twitter is hardly a platform where we can believe everything that is said, but fwiw, the word there is that Howley placed a bet of £6,000 on England to win the RWC @ 4/1.

If true - IF - that's proper serious.

Which bookie takes a six grand bet these days?

Rob Howleys flight home the other day landed at 12.50pm or 10/1 as he referred to it.......  :-X

 ;yippee; ;yippee; ;yippee;  ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

Excited  ;karabiner;

You going to the England game v Tonga on Sunday?

No, only get out there in time for the last group game v France on 12th Oct.

Pretty impressive stadium England are playing at tomorrow

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS-sHNDosHA

Will be rooting for Japan v Scotland!  ;yippee;

Go England  ;mexicanwave;

Sheesh, some of these Tonga guys are massive. Not sure I'd fancy one of them running into me at full chat.

Yes Billy Vunipola especially  ;yippee;

Although he just wore one  :o

Just a bit. No idea how they get straight up after a hit like that. Imagine if it were a footballer....

Why "Full chat"?

Not with you Tom, elaborate please.

You said "Full chat". It's not a term I'm familiar with and I wondered where it came from.

Ahh, gotcha.

"full chat" = max speed, flat out.

Think the term probably originated in motor cycling or motoring. I certainly recall it from the time I used to follow club notorcycle racing at all the UK circuits some 55 or 60 years back.

According to my research it is a motoring term, (Clarkson has been known to use it) but no one knows the origin.

Uruguay have turned over Fiji  :o

Game on! Go Japan  ;cheerleader;

The Japan - Ireland game is a wonderful watch, really absorbing & exciting.

There are 20 minutes left & it's Live on ITV if anyone wants 20 minutes of really good sport.

That was fabulous. Live sport, played in good spirit by real men. Best thing ever.

That was immense! No luck there either they fully deserved that one  ;sark;

I’ve bought a Japan shirt to take out there with me as I thought they might do Scotland in the last group and was gonna go to a pub in Tokyo and watch them pull it off. Didn’t think they’d manage it today though.

That’s brill for the World Cup and rugby in general. Fking love rugby!!  ;letsparty;

Excellent judge Tony Calvin was all over Ireland to give the hosts a good hiding here. -20, oi oi!

Don't tell me he got one wrong?

He sounds suicidal on twitter

Fucking Typhoon on the day I’m supposed to be landing, had a nightmare week with everything going wrong and that might just top it off  ;frustrated;

typhoon hits Scots game with Japan is Called a draw and Japan progress and Scotland get knocked out FFS

Game cancelled now as well  ;frustrated;

Go Japan!  ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

Japan are a thrilling team, whether they win or lose this

the basic handing skills are better than anyone in this apart from NZ? (i suggest)

Banzai!

Brilliant! love seeing the once lesser teams step up and show they are a match for anyone.

At this rate it wouldn’t surprise me if they made it all the way to the final.

England v Japan final please!  ;letsparty;

Japan need to replace Italy in the six nations.   Italy are a joke.

Japan into the rugby championship is the call. they have outgrown the PNC

competing with NZ/SA/Aus every year they'd be contenders for France 2023

Anyone getting excited yet?  ;yippee;

Am down near Oita ready for tomorrow’s game. If anyone can tell me how the hell to share pics from either imgur or flcker (or any other easy way) I’ll share a few pics with you all if there is an interest....

Can't help with pics as I'm a dinosaur, but love to see some if resident tech guru Tikay can help.

1) post the photo to flickr
2) on the forward arrow on the bottom right of the photo page on flickr
3) copy the url that pops up in the centre of the page under the facebook and twitter icons
4) goto the blonde thread you want to post on
5) type [img ] (no space between g and ]) the paste in the link the [/img ] (again no space after the g
6) text will look something like [img ]www.flickr.com/5656656 [/img ] (no spaces between the g and the ]

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48920425663_b1573c00d2.jpg)

Yeah not working, thought I had it sussed the other week but obvs not....

Fixed it for you.

Thanks, what was I doing wrong?

Using the wrong link - click through to the View all sizes link on the download button then copy the photo on that page

On Flickr or blonde? Sorry I’m a remedial at these things these days  :(

Cracking 'photo, that.

This is so good.

Having never met him, I have to ask.

Which one is Woodsey?

Such a great photograph.

How old is he Woodsey?

Fabulous picture Andy and a decent result too.

Haha, smashing pic, Woodsey!

Yes to the above. Saw a pic of you a few weeks back and thought you weren't who I thought you were. This pic is in fact the you I thought you were

A Scotsman walked into a bar, alone because the Englishman the Irishman and the Welshman were all in Japan.

Haha boss pic.

I always pictured woodsy as looking like boicey off only fool's.

He looks so, almost, gentle irl...

Have we ever seen a more mindless piece of ill-discipline than that Vaahamina red card? My word

Complete game changer.

Absolute madness. The French threw it away as they should have been much further ahead. What was the 7 man scrum in front of the Welsh posts all about. Another moment of madness.

Got away with murder there Wales with France their willing accomplices....

Tricky finding somewhere to watch the next game, hope Japan do it but SA are going to bully them up front and starve them of ball, if they get enough ball they have a sniff.

Yeah good pic with my daughter, she’s 2 years old.....

She's gorgeous.

Have you put a bit of weight on?

Since I last saw you almost certainly  rotflmfao

Gonna be an immense day whatever happens  ;letsparty; ;letsparty; ;letsparty;

Just watching the haka on TV scares the life out of me.

 ;scarymoment;

Wow, some start

Wonder how much Harry Findlay has punted on this one.

It's coming home! They'll be dancing on the streets of Tring tonight.

I know nothing about rugger but could still have done a better job at commentary than this roffler.

lol

Woodsey, you want tix?

I dont like the result can we do it again please seems to work in politics


not sure what the worst results is today's or last nights

You don’t have them chav, I have better contacts than you...that’s why I went to the cricket WC final and you didn’t, even though you bullshitted that you went there. I’m here at the rugby and can go to the final if I can get the time off work.....I might just. I’m a doer and you are a fking bullshitter mate.

I'll go with 12.

Harsh response to a post made in jest. Enjoy the celebrations and the memories.

Not really, he’s a fking proven chancer and bullshitter, wouldn’t bother saying it about most others......for sure on the ales  ;yippee;

Who knew 4 words get someone so wound up 🤣

I do beg her pardon. It's an easy mistake to make at that age though. ;shame;

I do the winding up round these parts not you bullshitter, you couldn’t even wind up a cuckoo clock if you tried ;kneelsucker;

But here you are throwing all sorts of names. Bless.

Says the absolute bullshitter with no integrity. Are you posting from your mums basement you loser? Cricket WC final tickets? Yeah right......I do and you just dream loser  rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

Have you started on that cuckoo clock yet?  ;yippee;

Sigh....

If he carries on being an arsehole I will be a bigger arsehole back.....don’t fking care, his choice.

I can’t believe you get irate about something or why it bothers you. If you think I don’t have tickets, that’s cool, move on. Hope you calm down soon.

Irate? Carry on because I’m enjoying taking the piss out you Mr Bullshitter  ;yippee;

Have you wound up the cuckoo clock yet? Come and play with the big boys when you have  ;djinn;

The front page of yesterday's New Zealand's "Herald on Sunday".


(http://i.imgur.com/5BJo9Mz.jpg) (https://imgur.com/5BJo9Mz)

Well, there’s an easy way to prove that you do have them, post a picture of them with a queen of hearts playing card...

you not heard of photoshop it was invented a few years ago now any photo can be edited seamlessly you need a Video of someone running around naked followed by a TV News camera crew holding the tickets to be believed nowadays

Its the only way anyone will believe him.

I don’t care if anyone believes me. There are people on here know that I can get tickets for most sporting events.

Hope you get a ticket Woodsey.

Rugby’s version of T20 cricket is on ITV 4 at 8pm, be interesting to see how it goes.....

There are still some tickets  for the final available from £560   , very tempted as it’s only a 4 hour flight from Hong Kong. That flight is 450 return

I think if I can persuade a mate to come along I’ll go for the experience

https://intl.stubhub.ie/rugby-world-cup-final-tickets/ca7346

Mate keep going onto the official site and keep refreshing, they keep popping up but you need to be patient. Those tickets from third party sites carry some risk, I heard several stories out there  of them being sold multiple times and only the first person with the ticket will get in, the rest will not. So if you do decide to get one from anywhere other than the official site be there when the gates are open so you are the first one through the gates.

Shame you didn’t post earlier, I had a ticket bagged on the official site but let it go because I couldn’t stomach nearly 30 hours on a plane over 3 days and paying a lot for the privilege  :(

Cheers for the heads up didn’t know that.  I wish I had let you know earlier mate

I’m not a massive rugby fan but something so near and could be a once in a lifetime experience is tempting

Do you have a link to the official ticket  site please

https://tickets.rugbyworldcup.com/accountLogin.html?key=&e=&n=&uc=&crk=&idNews=&resetId=&tkhrq=2f2271b9-7916-47a9-b4b3-dcfe18c3fb6e&tkhrp=86794bc9-9394-4ea4-89d9-cf92f093ddd3&tkhrts=1572461869&tkhrc=tickethour&tkhre=rwc2019augss&tkhrrt=Safetynet&tkhrh=24d70cfd204da89d21498fbefd94b6b2

Cheers mate

You will need to keep trying a lot to get them, basically they are popping up as and when Kiwi/Welsh are deciding to resell them.

Another option if your flight price isn’t too bad would be fly over, stay in a capsule hotel for £30. I’d be going to the ground for the 3rd/4th place playoff, quite a few of those at that game will have tix for the final, get a sign up and you might be able to pick a ticket up that way. if you fail just go to the fan zone in Yokohama for the game. At least you’ll have a laugh for the weekend and see a bit of Tokyo  ;D

Alternatively send lolrron a pm and he will sort you out as many tix as you need.

Again thanks for the suggestion mate

It’s cute that you’re still obsessed with me x

Just randomly asked my boss, would you have let me work from Tokyo this week? She said of course why not? Why the fk didn’t I think of asking that whilst I was out there last weekend  :'( :'( :'(

Can’t help myself, getting excited already  ;yippee;

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXokTpJGduw

Ahhhh well....... :(

not even Tikay can bok South Africa from here

A shame, writing was on the wall from very early on.

Terrific performance from SA. Monstrous defence, great scrum and can play a bit out wide too