November Series (non-Ireland)

blackcard · 25-11-2017 09:48PM

Japan 23 France 23 five minutes left

The Premier Man · 25-11-2017 09:48PM

Level now with 5 mins left

Former Former · 25-11-2017 09:56PM

That's incredible

Leinstertomas · 25-11-2017 09:56PM

Japan had a few chances at the end to set up for a drop-goal but couldn't keep any composure.

Stheno · 25-11-2017 09:57PM

Final score? For the Japan game?

England 48 Samoa 14

ScrubsfanChris · 25-11-2017 09:57PM

Conversion missed in the end was costly for Japan but still a great result all the same.

Awful for France, 0/3 in their Autumn series.

Bazzo · 25-11-2017 09:57PM

Some of the decision making from French players at the end there was shocking. Kicked the ball touch at 79:30 and hoofed it down field to give away possession with the clock dead.

Elvisjuice · 25-11-2017 09:58PM

ref gifted france two tries neither tackle was high

blackcard · 25-11-2017 09:59PM

Draw. Japan really throw their bodies on the line. They certainly won't be any pushovers at the World Cup. Very good in the loose and impressive backs. Scrum not great. Ireland should fear them

wp_rathead · 25-11-2017 09:59PM

Finished 23-23
They could have set up the drop goal but kept going wide the wonderful mad bastards
People on the bus probably think I'm mad- kept shouting at my phone

Scotland and Japan suddenly look pretty damn competitive now in our pool

Bazzo · 25-11-2017 10:00PM

blackcard wrote: »

Draw. Japan really throw their bodies on the line. They certainly won't be any pushovers at the World Cup. Very good in the loose and impressive backs. Scrum not great. Ireland should fear them

I don't think we should particularly "fear" them. We just 3 nilled them at home missing some of our best players.

EDIT: 2 nilled* thought it was a 3 test tour for some reason.

bloodless_coup · 25-11-2017 10:04PM

Put a tenner on Japan at 44 minutes when they had just drawn level and the conversion to go ahead. They were still rank outsiders at that stage according to the bookies.

Post match interviews with a French and a Japanise player, yet you hear two kiwi accents. The age we live in!

blackcard · 25-11-2017 10:09PM

Bazzo wrote: »

blackcard wrote: »

Draw. Japan really throw their bodies on the line. They certainly won't be any pushovers at the World Cup. Very good in the loose and impressive backs. Scrum not great. Ireland should fear them

I don't think we should particularly "fear" them. We just 3 nilled them at home missing some of our best players.

I don't know if they had the same personnel because they were up for it today, reminded me of their performance in the last WC against South Africa.

flatty · 25-11-2017 10:09PM

I would have generally been barnes greatest critic, but he's let a lot more go recently and been generally good.

The Premier Man · 25-11-2017 10:13PM

France 23 Japan 23

25-11-2017 10:22PM

Don't think we've much to fear from Japan. France are absolutely awful and incredibly poorly coached. Noves is a massive failure and completely unequipped to coach at this level in this day and age.

I've had to skim through the game as I wasn't able to watch it live but I can't believe a team of professional players from one of the top leagues in the world are collectively able to make so many bad decisions continually throughout a game against a team like Japan.

swiwi_ · 29-11-2017 08:45PM

While ye were watching Ireland play Argentina, this was a nice little defensive masterclass from Sam Cane

https://streamable.com/gt4e2

29-11-2017 09:22PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

While ye were watching Ireland play Argentina, this was a nice little defensive masterclass from Sam Cane

https://streamable.com/gt4e2

That's a good performance.

Incidentally it highlights probably the one thing I admire most about the All Blacks. He's not a massive guy, none of them are but their technique is so impressive that they don't lose the physical contact at all.

That or their all roided upto their eyeballlz

irishbucsfan · 29-11-2017 09:36PM

Sam Cane is big for a 7

29-11-2017 09:53PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Sam Cane is big for a 7

I asked my misses and she thought he was only a 5.

pickarooney · 29-11-2017 10:10PM

He has a really hatable face, the poor chap.

Yeah_Right · 29-11-2017 10:23PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Sam Cane is big for a 7

Basically the same size as SOB, TOD, JvdF and the GOAT.

He'll never be a great AB but he his reliable, solid and does his job. Wouldn't be surprised if Ardie Savea moved ahead of him in the next couple of years as he is more athletic and a good ball player.

Webbs · 30-11-2017 12:53PM

Team to play SA on weekend

Wales: Leigh Halfpenny; Hallam Amos, Scott Williams, Hadleigh Parkes, Steff Evans; Dan Biggar, Aled Davies; Rob Evans, Kristian Dacey, Scott Andrews; Cory Hill, Alun Wyn Jones; Aaron Shingler, Josh Navidi, Taulupe Faletau.

Reps: Elliot Dee, Wyn Jones, Rhodri Jones, Seb Davies, Dan Lydiate, Rhys Webb, Rhys Patchell, Owen Watkin.

Clegg · 30-11-2017 12:59PM

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Basically the same size as SOB, TOD, JvdF and the GOAT.

He'll never be a great AB but he his reliable, solid and does his job. Wouldn't be surprised if Ardie Savea moved ahead of him in the next couple of years as he is more athletic and a good ball player.

I'm not so sure on that. He was excellent in the Lions series. I thought SoB was marginally the better 7 in the tests but Cane was seriously impressive.

He's only 25 yet he already has over 50 caps for New Zealand which suggests he's a very good player. Anyone who comes in to replace McCaw is going to pale in comparison as he's possibly the greatest player of all time, but Cane has done a smashing job in filling the void.

Bazzo · 30-11-2017 01:00PM

Webbs wrote: »

Team to play SA on weekend

Wales: Leigh Halfpenny; Hallam Amos, Scott Williams, Hadleigh Parkes, Steff Evans; Dan Biggar, Aled Davies; Rob Evans, Kristian Dacey, Scott Andrews; Cory Hill, Alun Wyn Jones; Aaron Shingler, Josh Navidi, Taulupe Faletau.

Reps: Elliot Dee, Wyn Jones, Rhodri Jones, Seb Davies, Dan Lydiate, Rhys Webb, Rhys Patchell, Owen Watkin.

Is Gareth Davies injured? Can't see why else they'd retain Webb and dump him.

Webbs · 30-11-2017 01:12PM

Bazzo wrote: »

Is Gareth Davies injured? Can't see why else they'd retain Webb and dump him.

"It’s a good chance for Aled to get a start. The other two… Rhys has had a knock last week and today is the first time he’ll take a full part in training. Gareth has been carrying a shoulder for the whole campaign. Aled’s been fit and taking part in training. It’s a great chance for him to start." Gatland

Sephiral · 30-11-2017 01:44PM

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Basically the same size as SOB, TOD, JvdF and the GOAT.

He'll never be a great AB but he his reliable, solid and does his job. Wouldn't be surprised if Ardie Savea moved ahead of him in the next couple of years as he is more athletic and a good ball player.

Cane is brilliant. He held his own single handed against Warburton and O'Brien against the Lions when SBW was sent off.

Yeah_Right · 30-11-2017 02:22PM

Sephiral wrote: »

Cane is brilliant. He held his own single handed against Warburton and O'Brien against the Lions when SBW was sent off.

Cane is a very good player but the problem is AB 7s are held to ridiculously high standard. Jones and McCaw are top of the list. Then Kronfeld then a bunch of very good players like Cane.

Dave_The_Sheep · 30-11-2017 04:03PM

Anyone know if there's any particular reason Wales play four Autumn Internationals each year (from memory anyway) as opposed to the three that the rest have? Is this a new thing?

Neil3030 · 30-11-2017 04:29PM

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Anyone know if there's any particular reason Wales play four Autumn Internationals each year (from memory anyway) as opposed to the three that the rest have? Is this a new thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvHuQ4QoRyU

November Series (non-Ireland)

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