With all the rugby going on at the moment, we have to confess to finding it hard to keep a handle on all of it and a balance with work and family. As a result it’s a slightly abbreviated look at some of this weekend’s action. After a bumper crop of top notch matches inContinue reading “A quick look ahead to an intriguing weekend of Pool matches as Round 2 of the World Cup picks up pace in Japan”
Monthly Archives: September 2019
A very big day for North American rugby as Canada and the USA get their World Cup campaigns underway!
Canada and the USA kick off exceptionally challenging World Cup campaigns tomorrow. Canada get their journey in what is essentially the “Pool of no Hope” underway, while the USA commence operations in the “Pool of Death”. In short both teams have the unenviable task of collectively facing up to five of the best teams inContinue reading “A very big day for North American rugby as Canada and the USA get their World Cup campaigns underway!”
A match where whether you win or lose, a rather daunting quarter final awaits you
It is widely assumed that Ireland and Scotland will be the teams that progress from Pool A to the quarter finals. There is the wild card that is Japan and how home advantage could cause them to create two upsets this tournament as opposed to their one historic victory in the last World Cup, butContinue reading “A match where whether you win or lose, a rather daunting quarter final awaits you”
It doesn’t get any bigger than this – New Zealand vs South Africa and it’s only the Pool stages!!!
The World Cup’s fourth Pool Match is almost larger than the tournament itself. Many people with good reason, see South Africa and New Zealand as the two teams leading the charge to lift the Webb Ellis trophy on November 2nd, with England, Wales and Ireland snapping closely at their heels. Nevertheless, there is no questionContinue reading “It doesn’t get any bigger than this – New Zealand vs South Africa and it’s only the Pool stages!!!”
The Pool of Death sees a match that provides a glaring example of why it has been given that ominous title
Aptly named the Pool of Death, Pool C sees three heavyweights who all have a chance of going through to the knockout stages. It could be easily argued that England are the best prepared of the three to make it out alive, but Argentina and France are more than capable of upsetting the established order.Continue reading “The Pool of Death sees a match that provides a glaring example of why it has been given that ominous title”
Australia take on Fiji in Pool D’s opening match, and should provide one of the most intriguing contests of the weekend!
While the opener with Japan and Russia had its merit, there is no denying that this is the first of the weekend’s key fixtures that have got everyone talking. Australia come into this tournament rather like the Southern Hemisphere’s version of France. Brilliant one day, hopeless the next – the question on everyone’s lips isContinue reading “Australia take on Fiji in Pool D’s opening match, and should provide one of the most intriguing contests of the weekend!”
Let the games begin as perhaps one of the most eagerly anticipated World Cups in the tournament’s history gets underway this weekend!
If like us you love your Test Rugby, then you’ve already negotiated with the family that for all intents and purposes this weekend, you will be around but in body only. Your mind, spirit and attention however will be firmly focused on a TV, computer or tablet screen be it in your house, your mates’Continue reading “Let the games begin as perhaps one of the most eagerly anticipated World Cups in the tournament’s history gets underway this weekend!”
In the last weekend before everyone heads to Japan, Ireland play host to Wales and seek some answers as the clock starts to tick
It’s actually a fairly busy weekend in Test Rugby terms, as there are a plethora of “friendlies” taking place in both Hemispheres. Sadly it will be quite a challenge for us to get easy access to any of them here in Canada, the only exception to that being the Canada/USA game in Vancouver on Saturday.Continue reading “In the last weekend before everyone heads to Japan, Ireland play host to Wales and seek some answers as the clock starts to tick”
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