Rugby World Cup 2011

Post by **Raveen** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:58 am

Shockingly poor England performance vs Argentina and in a closed roof stadium nobody should kick as badly as either team did. Looks like my prediction of England scraping through is on track!

Edit: Since when did I predict Japan would beat France? Nice idea but clearly never going to happen (unless France choose to suck). Saying that France Japan was a good game and well worth watching.

USA v Ireland was a good performance from the US despite the result (which came from about 10 minutes of the game in truth). Defending that well against a much stronger pack is something to take pride in as is that last minute try, best score I've seem in the tournament so far.

HSharp · Post by **HSharp** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:01 am

I thought you couldn't change your prediction after the game started (or ended) Gandalf

I was wondering why you were stuck on 20 pts, problem with site or forgot to upload predictions?

Gandalf2 · Post by **Gandalf2** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:42 pm

Well spotted HSharp.... I have 2 entries as I run a parallel competition for my RL friends. I put my predictions in the RL entry just fine but forgot to put in my alleg enty. So I copied them across & gave myself the points retrospectively

I had prioritised getting everything sorted & working (which it *almost* is now) ahead of putting my own predictions in so hope you can forgive me this - won't happen again, honest...

Wales result was just so predictable (well, I predicted it anyway

). Playing well but a narrow defeat, just like the last 2 or 3 times we've played South Africa. Unlucky for both Wales & Argentina to lose.

Looks like England are trying to repeat the 2007 pattern of being utterly awful at the start but then coming good & reaching the final...

Good to see no-one is doing worse than "I just made them up" lexaal!

Next fixture is on Wednesday, remember to get your predictions in by then.

Post by **Raveen** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:45 pm

Out of interest Gandy, what would I have scored if I'd picked France vs Japan the other way round (swap the scores as it were)?

Gandalf2 · Post by **Gandalf2** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:04 pm

Raveen wrote:QUOTE (Raveen @ Sep 12 2011, 01:45 PM) Out of interest Gandy, what would I have scored if I'd picked France vs Japan the other way round (swap the scores as it were)?

11 points instead of 2 - you'd only have gone up one place.

There's a long way left yet though guys

Gandalf2 · Post by **Gandalf2** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:40 am

Ppffft I knew some people wouldn't have put predictions in. Hop to it HSharp and Broasca!

I should really sort out a proper email reminder system though.

Regarding today's results, I say congratulations to the good folk of Canada for their win, and Scotland won how they know best - without scoring any tries

HSharp · Post by **HSharp** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:57 am

Bugger, I thought today was yesterday.

Ion · Post by **Ion** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:55 pm

wtf canada beat tonga pfffft

broasca · Post by **broasca** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:20 pm

Bugger missed out on some points......oh well well the Scots got as bit of a fright - i think the Roms are the ones to watch...may be a little prejudiced

revit

Phalanxe · Post by **Phalanxe** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:17 pm

bahhh i missed this. also. england v puma's match sucked, i dont get how pro's can miss so much kicking a ball