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Summer Nations Series (World Cup warm-ups) - Final weekend discussion thread (autumnnationsseries.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Olap@lemmy.world to c/rugby@sh.itjust.works

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Last weekend. And it's the game that no player wants. All teams looking ready as they can be at this stage, and SA pumping the All blacks last night!

Home	BST	Away
England	15:15	Fiji
Italy	17:30	Japan
Scotland	17:30	Georgia
Ireland	19:45	Samoa
Spain	19:45	Argentina

Top 14 continues this week also

Predictions? Anyone watching them? Send us some snaps to the community!

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[–] Zerimski@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just arrived at Twickenham after an odyssey across London due to train strikes. Not been to a "big" game for years and really looking forward to it.

Not really watched England since the 6N, find it too depressing. Hoping for a decent performance and proper game today. Hopefully Fiji are getting optimistic.

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bookies have you by 12 today, Fiji just haven't put out a decent game in years it feels like

[–] daddyjones@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Now I wish I'd put some money on Fiji. If I ever invent time travel this will be a good one to remember...

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Off to Murrayfield later myself. Hoping for a nice clean game and no injuries

Predictions

England

Japan - hard one to call, best match to watch I'm sure

Scotland

Ireland

Argentina

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This post is still not showing in active or top in sh.itjust.works sadly. You can see it in the topX sorting though. Tried playing with languages and urls, but it seems to not be there. Perhaps @8ohighdef@sh.itjust.works will cross-post for visibility

Figured it out!

Using the same URL causes the sort algorithm to remove it. I've added a query parameter of ?bust=true and it now works! Score. Will update my bug report with the work around: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3894

[–] 8ohighdef@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Hell yeah glad u figured it out

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just turned up at Murrayfield and the England game is on. Pure pantomime!

Edit: Big full time cheers!

[–] 8ohighdef@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m surprised the Ireland vs Samoa was as close as it was

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, yeah, sandbagging I'll be fairly sure. Going to be a wild world cup still!

Would love some user flairs for lemmy communities, we shall see

[–] 8ohighdef@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I agree flair would be awesome

[+] theboy@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] Zerimski@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yup, agree on England and Fiji. It's a stronger England side than you'd usually see starting against Fiji, hopefully both sides put up a fight.

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Any thoughts post match?

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 years ago

Don't sack your coach 9 months out from a World Cup I reckon.

As a kiwi, with the benefit of that hindsight I reckon most of the country will be pretty relieved - even with that tough result yesterday.

[–] Zerimski@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Congrats to Fiji, they deserved the win.

Started OK but the sudden bout of weather seemed to put the brakes on any attack we had. And then it all fell apart. Asleep defensively and we seem to have forgotten how to deal with a wet ball, which is odd given the summer we've had. Fiji played well but we gave them the game. Can't even blame the ref, Peyper was fair.

Smith injected a bit of energy when he came on. Will give him that much.

I just don't know what's going wrong. Players that have been playing together for years suddenly have no chemistry, and look clueless. When we did have possession, the attack was completely one dimensional (after the weather) with Smith being the only person to attempt anything beyond passing it down the line.

Argentina and Japan are rubbing their hands together.

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't watched the game or even the highlights so this is more of a question... But when the ABs struggle at the moment its because we are losing the gainline battle (on attack and defense). On attack it means we get poor service to the halfback, and on defense it means we struggle to set our D and then end up giving away silly penalties.

Is a similar thing happening for England - because if so then the ABs are evidence its fixable. But if they're winning the gainline and still losing, then that might suggest a deeper malaise that is harder to fix.

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Half Time and trailing 0-6! Sandbagging my conclusion. But Georgia making a cracking defense