Wales vs South Africa

Coburger

What is Wales beat South Africa in the world cup in their opening game? Do you think Ireland may want to lose against Australia and hope to come second in their group. Having said that, Fiji may be a tough test too for Wales.

mfceiling

Not to worry....i don't think wales will qualify from their group

Gracelessly Tom

Coburger wrote: »

What is Wales beat South Africa in the world cup in their opening game? Do you think Ireland may want to lose against Australia and hope to come second in their group. Having said that, Fiji may be a tough test too for Wales.

Seriously?:rolleyes:

Gracelessly Tom

Coburger wrote: »

What is Wales beat South Africa in the world cup in their opening game? Do you think Ireland may want to lose against Australia and hope to come second in their group. Having said that, Fiji may be a tough test too for Wales.

Samoa are the main danger for Wales in that group. Real chance that they could turn Wales over and get a 1/4 final spot.

CatFromHue

Group D is a great group to watch for the neutral. South Africa the number 1 seed are struggling, Wales are struggling too but the two games against the English will have made them feel better about themselves, Samoa look dangerous, and Fiji also look dangerous. There is also the carry over from the last World Cup when Fiji knocked the Welsh out and were leading going into the closing stages of the quarter final against the Boks.

Wales play their last warm up game against Argentina. Taking the way the English played against them yesterday and the way Argentina usually play these are great warm up games for how the Boks usually play.

This group is going to be fun to watch because as it stands 4 of the 5 teams will fancy their chances of getting to the quarters!

Ponster

15 minutes 'til the next match. I think that Wales are actually in with a chance here at will at least stop SA from getting the bonus point.

runman

Wales +19 points is 4/9..should be a handy bit of profit. Cant see there being much in this game.

Conas

Wales could be smashed here.

wixfjord

Wales will be crushed in this imo.

duckysauce

hope wales get destroyed

marco_polo

wixfjord wrote: »

Wales will be crushed in this imo.

Not sure, I have have absolutely no idea where south Africa are at. If they find a bit of form you are probably right.

One thing is for sure after the last game I'm looking forward to this one.

thomond2006

C'mon Wales, win me some cash.

vinny chase

I think Wales are in strangely bullish mood for this one.

They really think they're in with a shout.

For them to win this, it'll be an absolute classic.

Think South Africa will just choke the life out of them though.

totallegend

Killan Keane ; "I was impressed by Priestland in last year's ml final for the Ospreys"
Ouch

CIARAN_BOYLE

0902: Those teams in full: Wales: Hook; North, J Davies, Roberts, S Williams; Priestland, Phillips; James, Bennett, A Jones, Charteris, AW Jones, Lydiate, Warburton, Faletau. Replacements: Burns, Bevington, B Davies, Powell, Knoyle, S Williams, Halfpenny.
South Africa: F Steyn; Pietersen, Fourie, De Villiers, Habana; M Steyn, Du Preez; Mtawarira, Smit, J du Plessis, Rossouw, Matfield, Brussow, Burger, Spies. Replacements: B du Plessis, Steenkamp, Van der Linde, Muller, Alberts, Hougaard, James.

marco_polo

Awesome tackling in the corner

thomond2006

thomond2006 wrote: »

C'mon Wales, win me some cash.

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What the **** was that Williams and Hook? Tag rugby tackling.

Deedsie

Terrible defence, Wales could be in for a tonking!

bleg

Try south Africa

No1J

Great score, Simple stuff when you have the meat.

No1J

thomond2006 wrote: »

C'mon Wales, win me some cash.

Good luck with that.:)

marco_polo

Damn right there appears to be nothing wrong with steins ball.

matthew8

marco_polo wrote: »

Danny right there appears to be nothing wrong with steins ball.

The ball's flight looked a bit unusual, however Steyn is a sure thing when kicking. I think he will end up missing 1 or 2 though.

mrboswell

marco_polo wrote: »

Damn right there appears to be nothing wrong with steins ball.

Or Hook's

Plazaman

Any link to a live stream on tinternet? Not trusting the link posted in the other thread, any site that says "Welcame to the World Cup" cant be good.

Ponster

Plazaman wrote: »

Any link to a live stream on tinternet? Not trusting the link posted in the other thread, any site that says "Welcame to the World Cup" cant be good.

All in the streams sticky.

tbukela

Looks like it could be a decent game, both teams well capable of running the ball.
There must be something going on with the balls, too many quality players kicking poorly.

marco_polo

matthew8 wrote: »

marco_polo wrote: »

Danny right there appears to be nothing wrong with steins ball.

The ball's flight looked a bit unusual, however Steyn is a sure thing when kicking. I think he will end up missing 1 or 2 though.

It only looked unusual because it went between the posts

DenMan

Plazaman wrote: »

Any link to a live stream on tinternet? Not trusting the link posted in the other thread, any site that says "Welcame to the World Cup" cant be good.

Great one here

http://tykestv.eu/channel1.php

thomond2006

SA 7 - 6 Wales, great game so far.

Ponster

??? That was 3 points wasn't it ?

matthew8

marco_polo wrote: »

It only looked unusual because it went between the posts

Now that last kick had an extremely unusual flight. It seemed to curve just wide and back in, that was strange. Another kickable penalty missed.

Plazaman

Ponster wrote: »

All in the streams sticky.

D'Oh, cheers. Still half asleep, who knew Sunday had at 7am? Forgot it's on ITV1 as well.

Fast paced game.

Too early for a can of Bulmers??

Big Nelly

Ponster wrote: »

??? That was 3 points wasn't it ?

From what I can see it was, but hard to see from a TV screen because it went out and then came back in.

Strange they looked to ask for replacement ball afterwards?

marco_polo

matthew8 wrote: »

marco_polo wrote: »

It only looked unusual because it went between the posts

Now that last kick had an extremely unusual flight. It seemed to curve just wide and back in, that was strange. Another kickable penalty missed.

Was never on really on Target either though. I will keep an open mind till I see a few more sa kicks mind.

Ponster

Wales playing better rugby than Ireland but maybe the stronger opponents brings out the best in a team. SA not running away with this yet.

totallegend

This has the makings of a cracking game, fair play to Wales for the way they've recovered from the early try.

Ponster

totallegend wrote: »

This has the makings of a cracking game, fair play to Wales for the way they've recovered from the early try.

Yep. Even most of gwlad are happy with the game so far and that's saying something

Creamy Goodness

Plazaman wrote: »

Too early for a can of Bulmers??

it's always too early for a can of bulmers.

Cypher_sounds

Some noise there from the crowd.

Pudsy33

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

it's always never too early for a can of bulmers.

fyp

No1J

Bad call Ref, it was a straight ball the wind caught it.

joshrogan

Wales/Samoa to qualify, Wales to win here and Samoa to beat SA in final game.

Ponster

Nothing special from SA since the try.

thomond2006

Priestland kicking possession away again....

Ponster

thomond2006 wrote: »

Priestland kicking possession away again....

Yeah. Way too strong to expect a player to run on to it and not close enough to the line so that a lucky bounce will take it over.

wixfjord

Haha lovin the boos for the drop goal!

thomond2006

Butch James is muck, dunno what SA see in him.

Cypher_sounds

Should be an interesting second half but the quality of rugby so far is poor.

thomond2006

Both sides will probably be happy enough. 'Boks dominated the first 5 minutes but haven't looked good since. Wales could really be ahead, taken the wrong options when they've failed to break the SA defence.

Cormic

Lots of quick ball from the ruck. Pay attention Ireland.