Rugby Pictures and talk about the matches
Sep. 15th, 2007 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99From some of the merchandising:
I bring you
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/redfiona99/001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/redfiona99/002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/redfiona99/003.jpg
Warning, the pictures might be a bit huge.
There were also ones of the Leicester contingent of the England team (well I think it's them given that the only players I can recognise are George Chuter and Julian White) and of two of the Scottish players and another Irish player (probably Gordon D'Arcy, the chap on the right of the icon. Brian O'Driscoll is the number 13 whose back you can see and the other face is Ronan O'Gara's. I'm 9/10ths sure that the other arm is Paul O'Connell's), but since I can't identify them, I thought it best not to include them.
Portugal played wonderfully against New Zealand and the NZ 108 - 13 Portugal score really doesn't reflect how good a game it was. They scored a try against the all-mighty All Blacks. More than that, their coach is a marvellous rugby thinker because he realised they'd be out-pushed in the scrum so he had them put the ball in the scrum quickly so the All Blacks didn't have a chance to turn the scrum. In particular, I think that António Aguilar (no 14), Rui Cordeiro (no 16) and Tiago Girão (19) had good games.
England were just as abysmal as their nil score suggests against South Africa.
Wales v Australia was closer than expected and, proving me right, they played a lot better with Stephen Jones in the side from the start. I do hope Gareth Thomas is alright, it looked like he took a nasty knock. Also Shane Williams is totally in my 2007 World Cup first 15 without a moment's hesitation.
I bring you
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/redfiona99/001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/redfiona99/002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/redfiona99/003.jpg
Warning, the pictures might be a bit huge.
There were also ones of the Leicester contingent of the England team (well I think it's them given that the only players I can recognise are George Chuter and Julian White) and of two of the Scottish players and another Irish player (probably Gordon D'Arcy, the chap on the right of the icon. Brian O'Driscoll is the number 13 whose back you can see and the other face is Ronan O'Gara's. I'm 9/10ths sure that the other arm is Paul O'Connell's), but since I can't identify them, I thought it best not to include them.
Portugal played wonderfully against New Zealand and the NZ 108 - 13 Portugal score really doesn't reflect how good a game it was. They scored a try against the all-mighty All Blacks. More than that, their coach is a marvellous rugby thinker because he realised they'd be out-pushed in the scrum so he had them put the ball in the scrum quickly so the All Blacks didn't have a chance to turn the scrum. In particular, I think that António Aguilar (no 14), Rui Cordeiro (no 16) and Tiago Girão (19) had good games.
England were just as abysmal as their nil score suggests against South Africa.
Wales v Australia was closer than expected and, proving me right, they played a lot better with Stephen Jones in the side from the start. I do hope Gareth Thomas is alright, it looked like he took a nasty knock. Also Shane Williams is totally in my 2007 World Cup first 15 without a moment's hesitation.
