England in Rugby World Cup Final

[the watchman]

blinking surprised that they beat the French, but hey they did .

Now as I am part Scottish my mothers side tends to come out when it comes to sport,..... so I'm allowed to support two teams....

[the watchman]

and we'll be playing South Africa

[Gazzara]

I think the rugby team, however poorly they perform always takes around 4 years to piece back together again and hey certainly have with regards to the world cup.

We could have done with playing South Africa in our group at around the 3rd match when they might have had a chance.  We are still giving up stupid penalties and it seems that we are less skilled then the 2003 predecessors but the heart and determination in what has pushed us through.

People always say if we are close to the French going into the final 20 more often than not the French will choke and that is exactly what they did.  South Africa will be a diferent ball game and we need to stop making stupid mistakes and rough them up a little.  Tours to South Africa have always been won by knocking the shit out of them rather than trying to be skillful.

I hope that this will be the case and Lewsey needs to be involved as he is a nutter and fires up the team that little bit more.  If we can hold close for the  first half, the confidence goes up, we forget about the first game and then knock the fuckers around more to throw them off their game.

[the watchman]

it'll be brutal rugby. None of that free flowing stuff, which if we tried I reckon we'd get spanked.

[Mad Mackem]

The Forward play should be fantastic, both sides not giving any quarter, it's a great pity about Josh Lewsey I would have put him at Full Back so he could that care of Habana.  When he gets things right nobody can get past him.

I would have prefered to play the All Blacks now that would have been one hell of a World Cup Final

[the watchman]

what are your predictions people?

[sunbeam]

A good result for the sport of rugby union ...

SA to win easily.

[the watchman]

Hey - thats not very patriotic!

But thats me assuming your an Englishman and you may not be!

It'll be a low scoring tight game.....decided in last 10 minutes.

[Gazzara]

If we knock the shit out of them and stop all the silly penalties then we have a bloody good chance.  If we let them play stylish rugby then we will get absolutely demolished.

I am hoping for an english win but it will be very tight.  If we let them get away early then we might as well just get pissed and commiserate early

[the watchman]

bollocks.

[Gazzara]

hey ho.  I am pretty trashed now but weas a good game.  That rejected try was our downfall amd a few dodgy calls for obstruction.  i have to look at this in a positived light.

1.  England didn't really deserve to be there in the first place based on their form but glad they were.

2.  Moody;s trip really didn;t help us at all as the boks were not playing wel.

3.  they did not score a try against us 

4.  We didn;t get beaten by the French.

5.   there has never been a team to retain the world cup so we have not made history but we were not screwed by a massive margin either,#.


I needd some sleep to sober up!!!!!!!