[RWC2023] Samoa vs Chile (16/09/2023)

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Playing lock didn't really matter for him against Ireland, he was a bigger menace than Spider-Man.

Thinking about it more my best guess is that because he's such a lean, mean machine McFarland has the engine to scrummage well and still be an absolute menace around the park. Seu/Luatua perhaps don't have the fitness to do both the scrummaging and the work in the loose, so they let them do just the loose work.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Gregan just said he expects Samoa to come out and have a fast fart

 

[Ferrari333SP]

I'm expecting a pretty fast and high scoring game

 

[TRF_Olyy]

The acoustics of that stadium are making the siva tau sound extra fierce

 

[Summer Rose]

Does there really have to be a commercial break between the anthems and kickoff?

Bit of a rhetorical question, I know.

 

[ShropshireAllBlack]

Chile have come out to play.

 

[Bluemoon]

Might see a red here

 

[Summer Rose]

Might see a red here

Just a yellow for me.

 

[die_mole]

Videla is taking the kicks I am a sad panda

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Have UJ in my fantasy team. *Adds reason to hate La Rochelle to the long list*

 

[die_mole]

Chile please stop committing penalties challenge . . .

 

[ShropshireAllBlack]

ITV really are shite. Display showing 0 penalties conceded by Samoa while they have a player in the bin…

 

[Bluemoon]

Just a yellow for me.

Yeah that's the right call, I was calling it when I saw it in real time, if it caught any higher it might have been red!

 

[Summer Rose]

ITV really are shite. Display showing 0 penalties conceded by Samoa while they have a player in the bin…

It's just that they gained from the advantage, but I agree that it's really stupid.

 

[die_mole]

the ball went backwards ffs

 

[saulan]

Amazing carpet as a pitch right there.

 

[die_mole]

pretty dangerous duo to kick the ball to

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Samoa have no attacking shape at all, didn't against us either. Definitely a team that can front up but hard to see them beating a T1 side outside of weird circumstances (like a deluge).

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Some of the lines these Chilean players are running are magnificent

 

[saulan]

Chile are looking the better team by far. Attack and structure is better. Defensively looking fine too. Samoa don't know what to do with the ball. Even their up and unders have no chasers on them.