understatement of the year, i cannot believe how england were soooo bad, they were terrible, like couldn't control the ball. rooney was woeful. i dunno what's wrong with them
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understatement of the year, i cannot believe how england were soooo bad, they were terrible, like couldn't control the ball. rooney was woeful. i dunno what's wrong with them
Dunno about anyone else, but i' fucking disgusted by England's "performance". I think that is the worst I've ever seen us play. The most gutless pile of shit ever to wear a shirt. They're a fucking joke. Why Joe Cole didn't come on for Heskey and then go 4-5-1 with Gerrard in the hole is a pathetic.
add in 3. you're allowed to pick up the ball
and get rid of the lacrosse gear bullshit
and that's rugby right there
We could say the same about your contact sport when comparing to our rugby or australias football, american pussies!
I'm so tired of rugby fags trying to equate football with rugby. Let me know when you can run full speed at an opponent and plant your shoulder into someone's collar bone. Rugby doesn't have a player running full speed on a slant pattern with a safety waiting to take your head off.
There is a reason football players have to wear uniforms, because it's much more fucking brutal. I'd love to see some rugby players suit up and go against top tier college football teams like Florida, LSU or Texas let alone the NFL.
Rugby players don't wear uniforms because the nature of the game doesn't require it and it would make it too inconvenient to fuck their sheep.
Have you ever watched Rugby?
American Football is an extremely tough sport but to dismiss Rugby as not as brutal is just quite frankly, retarded.
Players in the UK alone suffer serious (neck,back, head) injuries virtually every week. Some are life threatening and some have lost their lives playing Rugby.
You need to take those star spangled glasses off dude and take a close look at Rugby again.
Unfortunately the signs have been there since those two friendlys we played last night, rooneys burnt out. Because he is the main man for united, and the system they use where he plays up top on his own, each match requires that extra effort, hes got to create chances for himself, hold up the ball, cover more ground, basically doing the extra work of a front partner. Now I have a theory as to why capello plays heskey, I think that he plays him due to the fact he realises rooneys burnt out, so he uses heskey to do all that work for rooney. just a theory, but one things for sure, hes outta gas.
what a load of shit, harry kewell out with a red card.. and that slide tackle from behind by ghana only gets a yellow card. stupid fken sport, it's all decided by the bloody referees.
What? That's the whole point of rugby.
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some french guy getting killed by Jonah Lomu:
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Take a look at 0:45
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Some of them look ace. You also get a lot of gouging and stamping, as well as fists and what not in Rugby.
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I'm not comparing it to American Football though because i've never watched longer than a few minutes, due to it being very slow, unbelievably dull and no continued period of "action". It's just what seems like hours of adverts with something unwatchable and boring inbetween.
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Mostly good explanation, but I think you have the tiebreakers slightly off:
- Points
- Goal difference
- Total goals scored in all group matches
- Points obtained in the matches between the teams
- Goal difference in the matches between the teams
- Goals scores in the matches between the teams
- THEN it goes to being drawn from a hat
Source: http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/competitions/WorldCup/67/17/65/671765_DOWNLOAD.pdf
(Warning, PDF)
See article 39
EDIT: Although I think now I'm going to use your explanation when my non-soccer-fan friends ask me how it works.
Last night was fucking disgrace. I cannot believe how bad they played, Rooney was awful, couldn't trap a bag of shit. Gerrard was very poor and I don't think I remember Lampard contributing to anything. I can't remember if he even touched the fucking ball.
The team had no effort, quality, passion or determination to win that game. I don't know if they are unfit, lacking in confidence or just that the manager has lost the players.
Whatever it is, they need to sort it out quickly.
As for where we go from here, basically, both England and the US have to win their next games, and then we will both go through, and in positions 1 and 2 based on who wins by the most goals. Although right now, I'm not at all confident that we can beat Slovenia, which is how ridiculous this whole situation is.
The team had no effort, quality, passion or determination to win that game. I don't know if they are unfit, lacking in confidence or just that the manager has lost the players.
Whatever it is, they need to sort it out quickly.
As for where we go from here, basically, both England and the US have to win their next games, and then we will both go through, and in positions 1 and 2 based on who wins by the most goals. Although right now, I'm not at all confident that we can beat Slovenia, which is how ridiculous this whole situation is.
Although some of those are hard hits, American Football hits are MUCH harder. American Football you are talking about 2 guys basically running full speed lunging at each other. The majority of the Rugby hits are smaller guys basically running into a wall (huge guy). 2 different games.
I've seen some decent hits in rugby but I've never seen anything as remotely awesome as this, which is why I love the NFL
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