[RWC2023] Australia vs Fiji (17/09/2023)

[TommiG88]

You're meant to start with the nice tasting stuff and then move onto the dishwater after your taste buds have been smashed.

It was 5am, my taste buds would have accepted carling

Quit judging my airport beers

 

[TommiG88]

Part 2, sat next to Irishman to Nantes. Let's say he's feeling confident on making the final!

Now for connecting flight to Lyon where I will now look at people in a perplexed manner when they attempt to speak the native tongue to me

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Please find and purchase a nicer beer. There are so many great European beers and you are drinking that swill. It hurts me.

That's in an airport Wetherspoons in the UK and I can assure you it's the best option they have...

 

[TRF_Olyy]

So I will be blogging my travels via this thread. Hate me!

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Pre sorting out France's problems

Pound for pound best pint glass in the game, those are

 

[TommiG88]

Pound for pound best pint glass in the game, those are

Keep it down, you'll be lynched by the beer tasting police

 

[TommiG88]

Update 3

Lyon doesn't know what has hit them. Never seen English charm like this. Prison cell is a bit tight though

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

Hot take: corona is the best of the water tasting beers. My go to if I'm gonna have alcohol post-exercise.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Hot take: corona is the best of the water tasting beers. My go to if I'm gonna have alcohol post-exercise.

Wouldn't be my go to draught but a hot day? Corona bottle with a like wedge is so hard to beat.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I was drinking Corona in a bar in Kyoto at the start of the pandemic and when the bartender would bring me a bottle he'd put a disposable mask on it and say coronavirus, and think it was the funniest thing ever (which it was)

 

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

I think the Aussie backs were a success last week, especially Donaldson (taking pressure off Gordon). So I think the Aussies can score plenty points. Unlike Wales they have had a full week of preperation to exploit Fiji clearly being unable to kick all but the most straightforward penalties. I can see the best Fiji side in history being effectively eliminated from the RWC in the first half and their heads dropping.

Australia 45 - 20 Fiji

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Would love for Fiji to win this but unfortunately can't see it. Think that the Australians will be much better at handling the Fijian ball carriers than the Welsh were after having played the Drua.

 

[Welsh Exile]

Would love for Fiji to win this but unfortunately can't see it. Think that the Australians will be much better at handling the Fijian ball carriers than the Welsh were after having played the Drua.

I think if they have to make 200 and 50 odd tackes like we did they're ******.

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

I think if they have to make 200 and 50 odd tackes like we did they're ******.

That's the strangest way I've ever seen someone write 250

 

[Welsh Exile]

That's the strangest way I've ever seen someone write 250

Ha ha. I haven't got that far yet in my counting classes. 250 and up is next week.

 

[TommiG88]

Update 4, on my way to the ground taking in the sites

 

[Yulia]

Can someone ban TommiG
I was drinking mostly Belgian beer in France this summer, Leffe Ruby... that's so good, and they have this one in almost every shop in Franceonly Kriek is better

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Can someone ban TommiG
I was drinking mostly Belgian beer in France this summer, Leffe Ruby... that's so good, and they have this one in almost every shop in Franceonly Kriek is better

Ooooh, thanks for the reminder! Kriek for the hangover next Sunday, sorted.

 

[saulan]

Very invested in this one. Hoping for a Fiji win, and then Australia to get a big winning margin on Wales so that both Australia and Fiji go through.

Sorry Wales supporters, but Fiji I think got screwed over in your last game (no fault of your own, it's on the ref) and I think (after the Springboks vs Wales game) that Australia are likely the better team out of Australia and Wales. Start participating more in the URC forums and perhaps then I'll back you more, like I back our Irish besties

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Eddie Jones being the oldest ever coach at the rwc is a crazy stat - Brian Ashton looking like he's in his 80s for the majority of his adult life must've thrown me off

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Very invested in this one. Hoping for a Fiji win, and then Australia to get a big winning margin on Wales so that both Australia and Fiji go through.

Yeah, that's what I want - I'm not particularly fussed about which two of Australia/Wales/Fiji go through but Fiji winning this keeps it a three horse race, which makes it more exciting