Rugby Autumn Internationals

[Ardemax]

Hi all

I don't know if this has been posted but yolo

Basically this is just a thread for match discussion/predictions.

Match fixture list:
Saturday 10 November 2012
England v Fiji
Wales v Argentina
Ireland v South Africa
France v Australia
Sunday 11 November, 2012
Scotland v New Zealand
Friday 16 November 2012
Wales v Samoa
Saturday 17 November 2012
England v Australia
Scotland v South Africa
France v Argentina
Saturday 24 November
England v South Africa
Wales v New Zealand
France v Samoa
Ireland v Argentina
Scotland v Tonga
Saturday 1 December
England v New Zealand
Wales v Australia

What are your predictions/opinions?
Also I don't know how popular union is on here so this could be a complete fail.......

[JerseySafety]

Cant wait! :D

Friday 16th - Wales should obliterate Samoa - thinking by at least 20 points

Saturday 17th- England should beat Australia, South Africa will beat Scotland, France will beat Argentina - will all be close games I'm guessing except South Africa vs Scotland?

Saturday 24th - South Africa will probably come out on top of England, NZ will beat Wales, France will beat Samoa, Ireland will beat Argentina (could be quite close) Scotland should beat Tonga - never seen Tonga play? haha

Saturday 1st - NZ will beat England, Wales will beat Australia.

Your thoughts Ardemax; ?

[Ardemax]

Cant wait! :D

Friday 16th - Wales should obliterate Samoa - thinking by at least 20 points

Saturday 17th- England should beat Australia, South Africa will beat Scotland, France will beat Argentina - will all be close games I'm guessing except South Africa vs Scotland?

Saturday 24th - South Africa will probably come out on top of England, NZ will beat Wales, France will beat Samoa, Ireland will beat Argentina (could be quite close) Scotland should beat Tonga - never seen Tonga play? haha

Saturday 1st - NZ will beat England, Wales will beat Australia.

Your thoughts @Ardemax (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=45877); ?

Judging by the way we played against Argentina, we don't have a hope in hell of beating the Aussies haha.

I thought Scotland played alright against NZ, but I can't see them topping SA.

England, although playing a weakened Fijian side have shown they're 4th in the world for a reason and tbh there's no reason why they can't beat SA, unless they go in for stupid tackles and get binned.

Meh. Not a proper answer but I'm still down after watching us play so hopelessly. Waste of money! haha

[Lee]

I'll only watch England v New Zealand and australia plus New Zea v Aus. :)

[JerseySafety]

I'll only watch England v New Zealand and australia plus New Zea v Aus. :)

Haha only the best ;)

You forgot NZ vs Italy btw Sat 17th which is pretty pointless cause we all know we should beat Italy by at least 30 points ;)

Oh, also Ardemax; to be fair Australia have been playing crap recently - except the game against us lol but we played terrible, would be good to see you beat Australia, definitely a possibility.

No way scotland will beat SA, massive upset if they do.

England probably can beat SA, thats true. South African kickers have been shocking lately which loses games (and wins them), biggest game I'm probably looking forward to is NZ vs England, NZ vs Wales and Wales vs Aussie - would be good to see Wales beat Aussie, they have got so close so many times; they definitely deserve it. Wales is a much better team and more consistent imo.

[LoveToStack]

Anyone know if Wales vs Samoa is on BBC tonight on the red button or something? I don't want to watch this Children in Need crap.

[Ardemax]

Anyone know if Wales vs Samoa is on BBC tonight on the red button or something? I don't want to watch this Children in Need crap.

It's on iPlayer :)


Haha only the best ;)

You forgot NZ vs Italy btw Sat 17th which is pretty pointless cause we all know we should beat Italy by at least 30 points ;)

Oh, also @Ardemax (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=45877); to be fair Australia have been playing crap recently - except the game against us lol but we played terrible, would be good to see you beat Australia, definitely a possibility.

No way scotland will beat SA, massive upset if they do.

England probably can beat SA, thats true. South African kickers have been shocking lately which loses games (and wins them), biggest game I'm probably looking forward to is NZ vs England, NZ vs Wales and Wales vs Aussie - would be good to see Wales beat Aussie, they have got so close so many times; they definitely deserve it. Wales is a much better team and more consistent imo.

Again, another ticket wasted. I don't even know what's wrong with us, losing the last 5 international games.

I'm pretty sure it's got something to do with losing Gatland though.

Also Priestland is terrible, just terrible.

Should be a good day of rugby today hopefullyyyyyy

[JerseySafety]

It's on iPlayer :)



Again, another ticket wasted. I don't even know what's wrong with us, losing the last 5 international games.

I'm pretty sure it's got something to do with losing Gatland though.

Also Priestland is terrible, just terrible.

Should be a good day of rugby today hopefullyyyyyy

Gatland is bloody awesome - thats the main reason Wales is doing good imo. If he came to the NZ rugby team - I reckon we'd be literally undefeatable - even though NZ hasn't lost for like 16 tests or whatever only the draw to Aussie.

Can't wait 3 hours (or so) till NZ game, should be interesting. Staying up till 5am just to watch it

[ihatehash]

Gatland is bloody awesome - thats the main reason Wales is doing good imo. If he came to the NZ rugby team - I reckon we'd be literally undefeatable - even though NZ hasn't lost for like 16 tests or whatever only the draw to Aussie.

Can't wait 3 hours (or so) till NZ game, should be interesting. Staying up till 5am just to watch it
Woo lee so am I, come over. bring mcdonalds! I am watching the NZ Maori V Championship XV in the meantime.

EDIT: wtf, Gatland may be good but he is not All Blacks worthy. Steve is good anyway, keep him till next world cup please.

[JerseySafety]

Woo lee so am I, come over. bring mcdonalds! I am watching the NZ Maori V Championship XV in the meantime.

EDIT: wtf, Gatland may be good but he is not All Blacks worthy. Steve is good anyway, keep him till next world cup please.


NZ maori was boring lol, owned them too bad, how about you bring me maccas even though this post is mega late.

and uhhh Gatland is All Blacks worthy - not as head coach maybe, but assistant, considering he is from NZ it'd be good to see him. this game is close then I thought its like 30-10 10 mins to go :o

42-10 ahh nvm lol

[Ardemax]

NZ maori was boring lol, owned them too bad, how about you bring me maccas even though this post is mega late.

and uhhh Gatland is All Blacks worthy - not as head coach maybe, but assistant, considering he is from NZ it'd be good to see him. this game is close then I thought its like 30-10 10 mins to go :o

42-10 ahh nvm lol

Yup, that's how good we are. Losing the two easiest games of the series, doesn't get much better than that.

If NZ don't put 40+ points on us, I'd be surprised.

[JerseySafety]

Yup, that's how good we are. Losing the two easiest games of the series, doesn't get much better than that.

If NZ don't put 40+ points on us, I'd be surprised.

Such a shame, Wales were brilliant against Australia in the earlier series as well as in the World Cup. Knowing New Zealand we will probably only just fly by haha, especially without Dan Carter - he easily adds 10-15 points at least per game.

We shall see tonight/tomorrow morning, 6am start to watch the rugby - might as well stay up I guess.

[JerseySafety]

South Africa just bet England that was a good game, Italy deserved to beat Australia tbf they played a lot better, shame they couldn't get there in the end. Good effort by the italians though.

NZ vs Wales currently 23-0, feel bad for Wales, had to make like 3 changes in the first few minutes.

[Ardemax]

South Africa just bet England that was a good game, Italy deserved to beat Australia tbf they played a lot better, shame they couldn't get there in the end. Good effort by the italians though.

NZ vs Wales currently 23-0, feel bad for Wales, had to make like 3 changes in the first few minutes.

Although we lost 33-10, it felt good to watch us play decently. We weren't good in the first half but in the second I think it was a different side, scoring the same amount of points as New Zealand did. Also that 15-man try was insane haha!

Feeling more confident about Australia (still think we'll lose though). And just to add, NZ still demi-God's.

[SackRace]

Don't really watch Rugby but, anybody know what the Scotland v Tonga score was?

[Ardemax]

Don't really watch Rugby but, anybody know what the Scotland v Tonga score was?

Scotland lost 21 - 15. Hell of a try at the end by Tonga though.

[JerseySafety]

Although we lost 33-10, it felt good to watch us play decently. We weren't good in the first half but in the second I think it was a different side, scoring the same amount of points as New Zealand did. Also that 15-man try was insane haha!

Feeling more confident about Australia (still think we'll lose though). And just to add, NZ still demi-God's.

Yes they played very well in the second half, if they play like that for the whole game or even 3/4 they will beat Australia easy. Awesome push-over try as well.

[Ardemax]

Yes they played very well in the second half, if they play like that for the whole game or even 3/4 they will beat Australia easy. Awesome push-over try as well.

Don't ever assume Wales can beat anyone... ever. It never works haha!

[JerseySafety]

Don't ever assume Wales can beat anyone... ever. It never works haha!

Haha I truly believe they can beat Australia - they have being playing terrible lately hahah

[Ardemax]

Haha I truly believe they can beat Australia - they have being playing terrible lately hahah

The scoreline between Italy gave me a bit of hope... a bit.

[JerseySafety]

Ardemax;

England bet NZ, so surprising but they played a lot better rugby, NZ had too many mistakes.

Wales only JUST lost to Australia, they deserve the win imo.

[BreakfastBacon]

I support wales lol

[j0rd]

Priestland is an idiot, its shaming to call him a scarlet. Wales should have just held the ball the last few minutes, there is no need on earth to boot it down field.

[Ardemax]

@Ardemax (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=45877);

England bet NZ, so surprising but they played a lot better rugby, NZ had too many mistakes.

Wales only JUST lost to Australia, they deserve the win imo.

I felt so bad when the Aussies made their break in the last 30 seconds of the game. We were literally there and then we go and concede at the very end. We have sucked majorly in the last 6 months.

As for England just wow. Superb performance to show that NZ are now beatable again...


Priestland is an idiot, its shaming to call him a scarlet. Wales should have just held the ball the last few minutes, there is no need on earth to boot it down field.

To be fair to him that was his only real mistake of the game. Yeah it did cost us the game but our forwards were useless all game and we had numerous chances to score a try anyway.

[JerseySafety]

I felt so bad when the Aussies made their break in the last 30 seconds of the game. We were literally there and then we go and concede at the very end. We have sucked majorly in the last 6 months.

As for England just wow. Superb performance to show that NZ are now beatable again...

Sucks to be Wales, they deserve to win that - outplayed Australia the whole game.

and yeah, England played how NZ should of played. NZ played absolutely useless, surprised they didn't get beaten by more; not making excuses but that virus or whatever must of stuffed them up. what doesn't kill you makes you stronger though ;) thats why NZ is number 1 and has being for the most of the past 10 years.

[j0rd]

I felt so bad when the Aussies made their break in the last 30 seconds of the game. We were literally there and then we go and concede at the very end. We have sucked majorly in the last 6 months.


Not just this game, hes played terrible all the way through the internationals. Halfpenny played great all the way through the internations must give it to him

[Ardemax]

Sucks to be Wales, they deserve to win that - outplayed Australia the whole game.

and yeah, England played how NZ should of played. NZ played absolutely useless, surprised they didn't get beaten by more; not making excuses but that virus or whatever must of stuffed them up. what doesn't kill you makes you stronger though ;) thats why NZ is number 1 and has being for the most of the past 10 years.

For some reason we have a fear of scoring tries. I seriously hope we can turn it around for the Six Nations (we've got England & Ireland at home, so that's a minor advantage)


Not just this game, hes played terrible all the way through the internationals. Halfpenny played great all the way through the internations must give it to him

Of course yeah. He's had a shocker but I think he turned it round slightly at the end.

Halfpenny for me was the man of the series.