On February 13 2012 03:44 Daigomi wrote: Sevens started again. Japan currently playing well against Canada, but I think Canada will take it. USA played well against Australia (much better than they played yesterday), but just couldn't quite win. Does anyone know why Australia is so poor this season? I know they're generally not the best at sevens, but this season they've been way below average.
Looking forward to the later games tonight
EDIT: Gah, shit game vs. the All Blacks. They played well as always, but we played the worst match we've played this tournament.
Too many players getting snapped up for super 15s maybe? Commentators mentioned the coach usually gets a lot of guys right out of college for a little bit then they get contracted to super rugby.
On the bright side, i'm in first place for my six nations fantasy :D My spring season begins in two weeks can't wait to fuck some shit up.
On February 13 2012 03:44 Daigomi wrote: Sevens started again. Japan currently playing well against Canada, but I think Canada will take it. USA played well against Australia (much better than they played yesterday), but just couldn't quite win. Does anyone know why Australia is so poor this season? I know they're generally not the best at sevens, but this season they've been way below average.
Looking forward to the later games tonight
EDIT: Gah, shit game vs. the All Blacks. They played well as always, but we played the worst match we've played this tournament.
Too many players getting snapped up for super 15s maybe? Commentators mentioned the coach usually gets a lot of guys right out of college for a little bit then they get contracted to super rugby.
On the bright side, i'm in first place for my six nations fantasy :D My spring season begins in two weeks can't wait to fuck some shit up.
Nah, I don't think so. In fact, I didn't see any players missing from our roster. I was surprised to see Stephan Dippenaar playing for the Sevens squad, as he's a regular for the Bulls in Super Rugby. I think our performance this tournament was just a case of you win some and you lose some. We played poorly in the last two games, but not for any particular reason. I was glad to see Kenya and Canada win the Shield and the Bowl though. Great results for both of them.
Also, England almost losing to Italy was a shock. They've won both their games but they haven't looked convincing in either game. As England look now, I would say their remaining three opponents are all favoured against them.
Congrats on your fantasy! I've never played rugby fantasy, how does the scoring work generally?
On February 13 2012 03:44 Daigomi wrote: Sevens started again. Japan currently playing well against Canada, but I think Canada will take it. USA played well against Australia (much better than they played yesterday), but just couldn't quite win. Does anyone know why Australia is so poor this season? I know they're generally not the best at sevens, but this season they've been way below average.
Looking forward to the later games tonight
EDIT: Gah, shit game vs. the All Blacks. They played well as always, but we played the worst match we've played this tournament.
Too many players getting snapped up for super 15s maybe? Commentators mentioned the coach usually gets a lot of guys right out of college for a little bit then they get contracted to super rugby.
On the bright side, i'm in first place for my six nations fantasy :D My spring season begins in two weeks can't wait to fuck some shit up.
Nah, I don't think so. In fact, I didn't see any players missing from our roster. I was surprised to see Stephan Dippenaar playing for the Sevens squad, as he's a regular for the Bulls in Super Rugby. I think our performance this tournament was just a case of you win some and you lose some. We played poorly in the last two games, but not for any particular reason. I was glad to see Kenya and Canada win the Shield and the Bowl though. Great results for both of them.
Also, England almost losing to Italy was a shock. They've won both their games but they haven't looked convincing in either game. As England look now, I would say their remaining three opponents are all favoured against them.
Congrats on your fantasy! I've never played rugby fantasy, how does the scoring work generally?
Basically how much you play (full 80, partial or sub), tries, assists, drop goals, man of the match, and you get 1 designated kicker for points. Cards are negatives.
On February 13 2012 03:44 Daigomi wrote: Sevens started again. Japan currently playing well against Canada, but I think Canada will take it. USA played well against Australia (much better than they played yesterday), but just couldn't quite win. Does anyone know why Australia is so poor this season? I know they're generally not the best at sevens, but this season they've been way below average.
Looking forward to the later games tonight
EDIT: Gah, shit game vs. the All Blacks. They played well as always, but we played the worst match we've played this tournament.
Too many players getting snapped up for super 15s maybe? Commentators mentioned the coach usually gets a lot of guys right out of college for a little bit then they get contracted to super rugby.
On the bright side, i'm in first place for my six nations fantasy :D My spring season begins in two weeks can't wait to fuck some shit up.
Nah, I don't think so. In fact, I didn't see any players missing from our roster. I was surprised to see Stephan Dippenaar playing for the Sevens squad, as he's a regular for the Bulls in Super Rugby. I think our performance this tournament was just a case of you win some and you lose some. We played poorly in the last two games, but not for any particular reason. I was glad to see Kenya and Canada win the Shield and the Bowl though. Great results for both of them.
Also, England almost losing to Italy was a shock. They've won both their games but they haven't looked convincing in either game. As England look now, I would say their remaining three opponents are all favoured against them.
Congrats on your fantasy! I've never played rugby fantasy, how does the scoring work generally?
Basically how much you play (full 80, partial or sub), tries, assists, drop goals, man of the match, and you get 1 designated kicker for points. Cards are negatives.
Interesting. I might give it a try for super rugby this season. I've always found fantasy to be an awesome way to get to know the players. I've only played fantasy twice (for two cricket leagues) but both times I ended up making massive spreadsheets to improve my decisions which ultimately resulted in 2 hours a day spent analysing possible trades. Hopefully that won't happen this time :p
Is there a super rugby version anywhere I can have a look at?
On February 13 2012 03:44 Daigomi wrote: Sevens started again. Japan currently playing well against Canada, but I think Canada will take it. USA played well against Australia (much better than they played yesterday), but just couldn't quite win. Does anyone know why Australia is so poor this season? I know they're generally not the best at sevens, but this season they've been way below average.
Looking forward to the later games tonight
EDIT: Gah, shit game vs. the All Blacks. They played well as always, but we played the worst match we've played this tournament.
Too many players getting snapped up for super 15s maybe? Commentators mentioned the coach usually gets a lot of guys right out of college for a little bit then they get contracted to super rugby.
On the bright side, i'm in first place for my six nations fantasy :D My spring season begins in two weeks can't wait to fuck some shit up.
Nah, I don't think so. In fact, I didn't see any players missing from our roster. I was surprised to see Stephan Dippenaar playing for the Sevens squad, as he's a regular for the Bulls in Super Rugby. I think our performance this tournament was just a case of you win some and you lose some. We played poorly in the last two games, but not for any particular reason. I was glad to see Kenya and Canada win the Shield and the Bowl though. Great results for both of them.
Also, England almost losing to Italy was a shock. They've won both their games but they haven't looked convincing in either game. As England look now, I would say their remaining three opponents are all favoured against them.
Congrats on your fantasy! I've never played rugby fantasy, how does the scoring work generally?
Basically how much you play (full 80, partial or sub), tries, assists, drop goals, man of the match, and you get 1 designated kicker for points. Cards are negatives.
Interesting. I might give it a try for super rugby this season. I've always found fantasy to be an awesome way to get to know the players. I've only played fantasy twice (for two cricket leagues) but both times I ended up making massive spreadsheets to improve my decisions which ultimately resulted in 2 hours a day spent analysing possible trades. Hopefully that won't happen this time :p
Is there a super rugby version anywhere I can have a look at?
Yeah there should be, my friend from south Africa said he wants to do one with us. Check ESPNscrum or Google it. And yeah I've definitely learned a lot more about players between fantasy and playing Jonah lomu rugby on xbox. The Europeans still kknow way more than us though lol
Argh. Hand offs to the face are the bane of my life. I don't really even think they should be legal.
I played well today, but missed one tackle, where I got a hand off to the face. They won their scrum and passed it out through the hands to their centre who was a monster. I'm a no.8 and I'd gotten straight out the scrum and was sprinting across the pitch, their centre steps ours, and I had just made it to him in time thinking "fuck yes", I'm low and am about to go for him and bam, hand off to the face and I'm down. Sometimes I'm quick enough to smack the hand down if they put it up really early, but I'm having trouble with it. Not something you can easily practice either.
Scored one try, it was off a line out on their 5, (in line outs I normally stand inside fly half), the forwards in the line out setup a maul, drawing a load of players in, scrum half to fly half, fly half runs forward and pops it inside to me. Easy push for the floor. First ever try with this team so was big for me. But we lost like 36-25 or something like that, their backs dominated ours. Games like that are hard on the fitness, have to get out to the ball so fast.
Nice deadeight. how old are you/what kind of league do you play in?
Had a tournament yesterday, it was a very social 10's tournament though so we jsut got drunk all day. Woke up so fucking sore today its ridiculous. I play extremely aggressive when i'm drunk lol. Some team (that i've destroyed in a legit 15s game) drove 14 hours to come and beat everyone cause everyone else was hammered.
I'm 22 and just play for my University 2nd team. Our first team is definitely too high a level for me, some of them are on professional clubs already, last year they had someone in England Under 21s apparently.
I find it hard when it drops numbers because the same size pitch with fewer people creates a lot more space. That's why I'm dreading the upcoming 7s season after Easter.
Never played drunk rugby before, but in two weeks we have a friendly with a BBQ and beer that starts before the match, and apparently the hedges haven't been to pleasant in previous years. Rugby players trying to compete on eating meat + beer + knocks to the stomach.
Oh cool, lancaster always used to play rugby league I think but have been pushing towards union in recent years. I also think it's pretty cool that rugby seems to be getting a bit of a footing in US, given that it's got American Football to compete with.
Be thankful it got cancelled. We turned up to a game on an icy pitch once after it had snowed, and the ref and none of the venue staff turned up due to the conditions. Since no one was there to tell us not to play, we went ahead with the game (a friendly) and although it didn't last long it was a bloodbath.
Team is away at a tournament down in pennsylvania; I'm just getting over strep, and missed a week and a half of practice, so I didn't make the roster.
@deadeight it's a big game at the college level - nearly every school has a team. The atmosphere of the game, as well as the social aspect and the roughness of it just mesh really well with university students here. Younger and older than the college level it's still around, you just really have to be looking for it.
Anyone been watching the rugby this weekend? Super Rugby has gotten off to a fairly slow start. Lots of tight games (I think all five losing teams have gotten a bonus point so far), but you can see the teams are still a bit rusty. Crusaders and Blues probably looked the best, while the Brumbies and the Force probably looked the worst. Biggest upset so far is definitely Highlanders beating the Chiefs. Highlanders tend to be bottom of the log in NZ, while Chiefs are fairly strong (Kahui, SBW, etc.). For the South African teams, I guess all we can say so far is that Morne Steyn is most likely still the best kicker in Super Rugby. I think he put three kicks over that were more than 50m and a drop kick. Other than that, the game was fairly boring.
Two good matches are still coming up: Stormers vs Hurricanes and Lions vs Cheetahs. Lions and Cheetahs are usually bottom of the full log, but they both had reasonable seasons last season. Also, Lions won the South African domestic tournament (the Currie Cup) for the first time in 16 years, so hopefully they put up a better fight this season.
EDIT: Last two games turned out to be the two most interesting. Stormers vs Hurricanes was probably the most entertaining game of the weekend for me, although, as with all the teams, the quality wasn't that great. Lions vs Cheetahs was pretty interesting to watch, and damn tense (as a Lion supporter). Some pretty good kicks.
havent been able to see anything besides a bit of highlights from the crusaders and blues...massive stiff arm! Rene ranger looking like a beast as well.
Go the blues! Tough loss to the crusaders (T.T damn that was heart breaking). But then I caught the end of the Reds vs Waratahs game, and I realised that the Waratah supporters must feel even worse LOL.
On February 13 2012 03:44 Daigomi wrote: Sevens started again. Japan currently playing well against Canada, but I think Canada will take it. USA played well against Australia (much better than they played yesterday), but just couldn't quite win. Does anyone know why Australia is so poor this season? I know they're generally not the best at sevens, but this season they've been way below average.
Looking forward to the later games tonight
EDIT: Gah, shit game vs. the All Blacks. They played well as always, but we played the worst match we've played this tournament.
Too many players getting snapped up for super 15s maybe? Commentators mentioned the coach usually gets a lot of guys right out of college for a little bit then they get contracted to super rugby.
On the bright side, i'm in first place for my six nations fantasy :D My spring season begins in two weeks can't wait to fuck some shit up.
Nah, I don't think so. In fact, I didn't see any players missing from our roster. I was surprised to see Stephan Dippenaar playing for the Sevens squad, as he's a regular for the Bulls in Super Rugby. I think our performance this tournament was just a case of you win some and you lose some. We played poorly in the last two games, but not for any particular reason. I was glad to see Kenya and Canada win the Shield and the Bowl though. Great results for both of them.
Also, England almost losing to Italy was a shock. They've won both their games but they haven't looked convincing in either game. As England look now, I would say their remaining three opponents are all favoured against them.
Congrats on your fantasy! I've never played rugby fantasy, how does the scoring work generally?
Basically how much you play (full 80, partial or sub), tries, assists, drop goals, man of the match, and you get 1 designated kicker for points. Cards are negatives.
Interesting. I might give it a try for super rugby this season. I've always found fantasy to be an awesome way to get to know the players. I've only played fantasy twice (for two cricket leagues) but both times I ended up making massive spreadsheets to improve my decisions which ultimately resulted in 2 hours a day spent analysing possible trades. Hopefully that won't happen this time :p
Is there a super rugby version anywhere I can have a look at?
Yeah there should be, my friend from south Africa said he wants to do one with us. Check ESPNscrum or Google it. And yeah I've definitely learned a lot more about players between fantasy and playing Jonah lomu rugby on xbox. The Europeans still kknow way more than us though lol
This is the one that I'm part of. Was in NZ twice for the world cup (was staying in Melbourne for 6 months). I played national level in Korea way back when (hooker) and played for a social touring Expat team after I graduated, captain was South African with some kiwis and aussie and a few American/Canadians as well. I got my right ankle crushed back in 2007and basically ended my career.
But now I'm 37, I'm going to go for a master league next year and get back into shape. My game weight use to be 87kg (I'm 178 cm), but now I'm 109kg (and I was at 118kg up to a month ago). I'm hoping to cut down to 98 or so and give it ago. It has literally taken 5 years for my ankle to somewhat heal, I didn't get an operation on it because there really wasn't one to be had, part of the bone at the front part of the ankle joint has disintegrated so the bone actually slips forward. I have had a lot of physiotherapy on it, so as long as I tape it up, I should be able to play one last glorious season before I'm crippled for life. ^^
So I'm probably going to relocate to Singapore next year and join the club scene there, if I can go for 3rd division I'l try. Beat on some young punks lol.
I'd say, if you guys in America have never watched a lot of rugby, Super Rugby or Tri/Quad Nations is where it is at; the games are just so much more intense and dynamic than northern hemisphere games. Also, I was never a big fan of league, but after living in Melbourne I've come to really like it (still can't get into Aussie Rules/AFL though)- so you guys should check out NRL. Season also is starting now.
I find that getting my fitness up will take about 2 months at my age, body just doesn't adapt the way it use to. But I'm going to just cut my weight down to about 95kg by diet first then just do full length sprints about 70% across the pitch, then walk behind the field goal posts then repeat until I pass out. And I'll just keep doing that until I can get up to 10 lengths without passing out at my max sprint. And I'll mix it up with 10 meters then one push up, 10 meters, one push up for the length of the pitch.
I don't know if this is too old school, anyone got any tips to getting back into rugby fit? lol.
I really thought beforehand England were going to get rolled by Wales. Wales had looked really good in their previous two games and I hadn't been impressed with Englands play, even though they'd won both their games. England did well to step it up and I could have sworn were going to win, but then it just got snatched at the end
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