Rugby Union

Fucking hell. Whoever wins this match is winning the tourney

This match is 🔥🔥 I came to the only bar I could find leaning pretty neutral, but the unexpectedly large rugby crowd is so lopsided for France I'm cheering with the 4 Spring Boks fans. Of course my Houston Sabercats have a huge contingent of Saffa players, so I might be seeing some of these guys find their way here in a few years!

People rave about the defensive effort in NZ v IRE, but if the first 5 minutes of SA v FRA are to go by it could be the best quarterfinal purely from the attacking rugby.

I didn't expect it to be this close. Does this mean the Wallabies actually aren't crap?

Ok, WTF has Rassie cooked up that SA call a scrum from a free-kick when catching fairly deep in their own 22m?~~?~?

Four teams vying for a chance to lose to New Zealand in the final.

This is a better match than IRE v NZ so far. Which team is going to tire sooner?

Oooooo we got ourselves a contest here!

Ommggggg comoooon Fiji!

Aw man would've loved Farrell to have gotten a card on that disgusting knock

Gutted for Fiji. Bricking it for tonight.

Statement of intent from the boys in blue.

Oh God my fucking heart

England shutting down all attacks here really effectively. And taking the 3, forcing Fiji to play even more desperately now

Damn Eng gonna win this on these 3-pointers

Does Bryan Habana talk even less sense than Sean Fitzpatrick?

Kick-off time! I love a good underdog, but I also have English ancestry to root for. As long as them match is competitive that's all I could ask for.

A little sloppy but great close by Fiji to put their first try of the match on the board!

That had to hurt.

That was a saucy bounce out of the scrum! Fiji seem to be having a lot of this today, scrambling to recover the ball when it just meanders out of control.

SA intent on the hard way 2nd half

Allez les blues!

This Kolbe, is he made of Teflon?

FUUUCCCKKK YEEESSSSS

Well that has ruined my year. Some weekend of matches.

Guess I’m Argentinian now.

I'm thinking the only way to play with that kind of chaos and flair at the pace we saw tonight is to base it on a foundation of the kind of well drilled precision we saw last night. So maybe these two teams are a level above IRL and NZ.

Or maybe they're all four about the same level and it was just different game plans. Last night's was "keep possession" and tonight's was "get their defence scrambling"

I was thinking it wasn't as exciting a game as yesterday's two but then that final quarter happened. I think we were a little lucky to get away with that intentional knock on not being a yellow, but I think Eng haven't played that well in a long while.

Well. In tears. England ain't gonna hold SA next Sat. NZ for the cup imo!

Missing kicks going to be very costly here. Come on Fiji!