After the first weekend of rugby I thought it might be worthwhile to stand back and take a look what we have learned across all of the countries involved.
With that in mind the 10 things I learned from the Rugby World Cup this weekend.
- The minnows are a lot better than we thought they were.
- England are crap but still have a horrible habit of winning games they shouldn’t. Thankfully this time there is no way they are good enough to beat someone decent.
- The Guardian is crap for rugby punditry – seriously, 2 reasons why New Zealand fear England are in the 5 things you learned this weekend? (and yes I did shamelessly steal the concept for this blog from them). Presumably they didn’t bother watching that crap England display.
- The Scots probably won’t get out of their group.
- Vickery may be a legend, but talented TV presenter/commentator he is not.
- ITV are all around God awful at presenting rugby. It comes to something when I find myself missing the likes of Stuart Barnes on Sky.
- Ireland are still going backwards at a rate of knots.
- The Aussies could well push the Kiwis all the way for this trophy
- The Kiwis still hate Wayne Barnes (their efforts at having a go at him re ‘that kick’ dwarf anything we could manage).
- New Zealand time is bloody annoying to have to get up for.
A pretty informative first few days. I look forward to seeing the Samoans kick off their Rugby World Campaign against Namibia on Wednesday.
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Can we add to that that Rhys Priestland looks like he’ll be as consistent and reliable as Stephen Jones… however he also looks equally useless in the opponents 22 as Stephen Jones
Priestland was covered in the welsh rather than international edition. Disgaree about him being useless in the 22 though, he simply needs a balanced centre pairing outside him
Fair point, useless is too strong a word, but he certainly lacks the incisiciveness that a player like Hook can bring in the 22