[Pareto]

[Numbers Man]

Great to see the start of the Tournament and England off to a rather patchy win over Fiji.

Should be a great tournament.

[Sourcecode]

https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/

I found out..
If youre in England.. or have use any proxy that lets you appear to be in England. You can watch all the games free.

[Cyr]

Wow, that was incredible. Japan have just made history.

[nek]

Anyone have any idea how to watch this in the US or how to stream it?

[Belgrano]

Unbelievable! Glorious! Legendary!

Best game I´ve ever seen. Those last 10 minutes, that´s what the sport is all about. That´s the way of the warrior. But how can the Japanese still walk straight on it with those massive balls? I have no idea, but history has been written.

[britchard]

Thought we were shite last night. The scrum was poor, and I prefer Farrell.

[nek]

It's kind of a symbolic victory. Just the other day Japan announced for the first time since WWII they're expanding their military mission, and now they defeat the Sprinboks in one of the biggest upsets in Rugby. The Red Sun rises again.

[kaeru]

Didn't get to see Japan's match, but I saw the highlight. The fact that they scored the last try 4 minutes after the end of regulation shows the tremendous size of their testicles indeed.

France - Italy was a great one, some of France's tries were brilliant, the one with the little kick to pass the ball forward especially. But the Italian showed toughness up until the end and didn't allow France to get the bonus point.

I'm glad to see that the scoring average of each mach is 47.6 so far. I hope this keeps on !

[Horus]

I'm not going to lie. I shed a tear watching the jubilation of the Japanese team after full time. What a day for Japanese rugby! There's always a couple of upsets at the world cup, but nothing on this magnitude.

[Horus]

(09-18-2015 10:38 PM)Sourcecode Wrote:  

https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/

I found out..
If youre in England.. or have use any proxy that lets you appear to be in England. You can watch all the games free.

Brilliant. Thank you for this. The free sites I usually watch sports on have been blocked where I am, and I was starting to panic.

I set my VPN to UK, and it asked me to enter a valid UK post code. I used this site to generate a random UK post code. Watching Uruguay vs Wales now.

[Rush87]

(08-29-2015 07:22 AM)Horus Wrote:  

You have to feel sorry for England, Wales and Australia all in the same opening pool. Those are teams we always expect to make it to the next round, but any one of them could be going home early. Add the physicality of Fiji, and it's easily the toughest pool. If I had to put money on it, I'd say England and Australia will go through.

South Africa will cruise through in Pool B with the main contest between Scotland and Samoa. Given the way Samoa is playing, I'd say Scotland won't make the quarterfinals.

It's an absolute certainty that New Zealand and Argentina will go through in Pool C, and that France and Ireland will progress in Pool D.

South Africa will beat Australia in the first quarterfinal, New Zealand will beat France in the second quarterfinal, Ireland will beat Argentina in the third and England will beat Samoa in the fourth.

New Zealand and England will progress to the finals with the outcome too close to tell - England will be extremely tough on home soil.

South Africa v Australia in the Quarters just went down the drain. Japan FTW.

[Sourcecode]

Yea. I just googled London post codes and threw one in.
Being in Korea,I already use tunnel bear as a vpn . It was a single click and I'm watching the games in hd.

[Saweeep]

Upsets happen so rarely in rugby due to the nature of the game; it can't be underestimated how seismic the Japan SA game yesterday was really.

You have to wonder whether the boks were "fighting the last war" so to speak; the team is very old and very experienced. We often see this in sport. It happens again and again. Do they have the physical and mental fight to turn things around? I wouldn't bet agains them, as they are a nation of tough, hard motherfukers but you have to wonder!

All Blacks up today...despite being an Englishman through and through I have always hated the way that we approach the game from grassroots all the way up to elite level. NZ just play rugby how I believe it should be played and are the only sports team on the planet I get up in the middle of the night to watch regularly.

[Saweeep]

If anyone new to rugby watching this NZ Arg game, listen out for what the referee is saying.

Wayne Barnes is the best in the business in my opinion...he will teach you about the game via his mic.

[kaeru]

Game Over.

New Zealand won against Argentina 26 - 16. I saw somewhere on this thread that the All blacks often have sloppy beginnings of games, that was the case here indeed.

Argentina was in front at some point, but then that Sonny Bill Williams fellow came in and seems to have turned things around. Argentina's defense couldn't keep up during the second half, which allowed NZ to score a try at 57' and 67'.

Japan is playing Scotland tomorrow, I'm curious to see if they can reiterate the feat.

[Saweeep]

(09-20-2015 01:12 PM)kaeru Wrote:  

Game Over.

New Zealand won against Argentina 26 - 16. I saw somewhere on this thread that the All blacks often have sloppy beginnings of games, that was the case here indeed.

Argentina was in front at some point, but then that Sonny Bill Williams fellow came in and seems to have turned things around. Argentina's defense couldn't keep up during the second half, which allowed NZ to score a try at 57' and 67'.

Japan is playing Scotland tomorrow, I'm curious to see if they can reiterate the feat.

Japan Scotland is Wednesday.

It was more the pace of the game than SBW, although he did make a difference. Rugby is often won and lost in the last 20 minutes; it's just very hard to keep up the effort required against a superior team for the full 80.

[kaeru]

(09-20-2015 01:38 PM)CrashBangWallop Wrote:  

Japan Scotland is Wednesday.

It was more the pace of the game than SBW, although he did make a difference. Rugby is often won and lost in the last 20 minutes; it's just very hard to keep up the effort required against a superior team for the full 80.

My bad, didn't see that they were skipping a couple days in the schedule, I was following the Eurobasket the past 2 weeks and assume Rugby would have the same pace. Oh well...

You're making a good point, NZ seemed more physical overall.

[Foolsgo1d]

Japan beating SA is beautiful news. The only thing better would be them smashing Scotland. Those faces of the SA fans are priceless and the Scots should face the same loss.

[nek]

I wish this was on US TV....

[deerhunter]

(09-20-2015 08:28 PM)nek Wrote:  

I wish this was on US TV....

I watch it on my computer using first row sports in the us. Once the match starts just click on a link and wait about 30 seconds for it to get going. New Zealand didn't seem to be finishing as well as they normally do. A few times they were within a couple of yards of a try but didn't get it in.

[Saweeep]

(09-20-2015 09:47 PM)deerhunter Wrote:  

(09-20-2015 08:28 PM)nek Wrote:  

I wish this was on US TV....

I watch it on my computer using first row sports in the us. Once the match starts just click on a link and wait about 30 seconds for it to get going. New Zealand didn't seem to be finishing as well as they normally do. A few times they were within a couple of yards of a try but didn't get it in.

This is a long tournament...it pays to peak at the end.

[H1N1]

(09-21-2015 04:12 AM)CrashBangWallop Wrote:  

(09-20-2015 09:47 PM)deerhunter Wrote:  

(09-20-2015 08:28 PM)nek Wrote:  

I wish this was on US TV....

I watch it on my computer using first row sports in the us. Once the match starts just click on a link and wait about 30 seconds for it to get going. New Zealand didn't seem to be finishing as well as they normally do. A few times they were within a couple of yards of a try but didn't get it in.

This is a long tournament...it pays to peak at the end.

Exactly, also, if there is anything that can be said about the All Blacks, it's that they invariably find a way to win when it matters. Take their last game against England, where they won narrowly with a try after the 80 minutes. They are so good at retaining possession, so clinical in their execution, and so relentless, that even when they look like suffering a freak loss they find a way to come up with the goods. The current All Blacks teams is probably one of the great teams of all time, across all sports, they are that good. And they could switch out their whole first team and probably still be the best team in the world, or challenging for it!

There are a few teams who could score freak wins over them if everything goes in their favour, but otherwise expect to see the All Blacks rise to whatever occasion is in front of them.

[Saweeep]

A convincing argument could be made that this NZ team of the last 4 years is the greatest sports team of all time.

[Pareto]

(09-21-2015 04:38 AM)CrashBangWallop Wrote:  

A convincing argument could be made that this NZ team of the last 4 years is the greatest sports team of all time.

With some of the big names in the side, like SBW and Dan Carter, I think I'm inclined to agree with you if we're talking about the current generation. Normally I would say that SA are better, and that the loss against Japan was just an anomaly, but I can't say that fairly without having watched that game (and, to be honest, fair play to Japan for winning).

Having looked at the NZ Test records though, it shows just how dominant NZ rugby is, even against SA and AUS. They're a consistent side, which is probably what I would put importance on when deciding the "greatest team".

I can't comment on the "greatest team of all time" though, because I've not watched enough rugby since before the 2007 Rugby World Cup (which is when I got into Rugby as a 12 year old)