2023 Rugby World Cup

**64west** · 15-10-23, 21:57

Originally Posted by 64west

FRA 24 - RSA 15
I’ll go France by two score game. I’m giving 🇿🇦 a missed conversion. 9 Pts the difference

I’ll take the missed conversion but heavily underestimated South Africa to step up a gear from their group performances. Kolbe was the difference.

**robbie9** · 16-10-23, 00:46

Originally Posted by 64west

I’ll take the missed conversion but heavily underestimated South Africa to step up a gear from their group performances. Kolbe was the difference.

kolbe was incredible.

The charge down was world class, gritted teeth stuff.

de allende was excellent along with the front row, they had France's measure in the scrum.

best team won despite it being a 1 point game.

**Ryankelvin** · 16-10-23, 07:58

Not sure if it has been mentioned already, but it’s amazing that 3 of the 4 semi finalists were group runners up.
It reflects the imbalance in the group’s, but also I think now we got carried away on the importance of beating SA in group, I feel we could have beaten France.

**Ketchup2023** · 16-10-23, 09:07

Originally Posted by Ryankelvin

Not sure if it has been mentioned already, but it’s amazing that 3 of the 4 semi finalists were group runners up.
It reflects the imbalance in the group’s, but also I think now we got carried away on the importance of beating SA in group, I feel we could have beaten France.

Ya thats a strange one about the runners up. Its very hard to say if we would have beaten france or not. Imo there's only a kick of a ball between the top 4 teams in the world and on any given day any of them could beat each other.

**Ketchup2023** · 16-10-23, 12:44

Originally Posted by robbie9

That's a tough group for Ireland, I'd expect us to beat the Scots in 2023 but again on their day they could trouble us.

South africa will be v tough , we would need to get out of the block quickly and hopefully kolbe might have slowed down by then..

Going by the performance kolbe put in yesterday its what he has got faster.

**Rooney2808** · 17-10-23, 09:32

Originally Posted by Ketchup2023

Ya thats a strange one about the runners up. Its very hard to say if we would have beaten france or not. Imo there's only a kick of a ball between the top 4 teams in the world and on any given day any of them could beat each other.

Very fine margins between Ireland, SA, NZ and France. Any one of them could beat the other on the day.
A shame that they met in the quarter finals but we got 2 brilliant games of rugby.

**robbie9** · 17-10-23, 17:22

Originally Posted by Rooney2808

Very fine margins between Ireland, SA, NZ and France. Any one of them could beat the other on the day.
A shame that they met in the quarter finals but we got 2 brilliant games of rugby.

Agree, we were deprived of 2 box office semi finals.

**Ketchup2023** · 18-10-23, 18:27

The all blacks make 2 changes foq the sf. Mark telea and sam whitelock both start.

**Ketchup2023** · 19-10-23, 15:40

The boks name an unchanged team for their sf. England make 3 changes.

**Ketchup2023** · 20-10-23, 10:31

First sf tonight. Argentina will be well used to playing the all blacks through the rugby championship. But its impossible to see any other result other than a comfortable all blacks win. Will the pumas give them a game for one half? I'd say the all blacks by 20pts.

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