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England are playing well...wilkinson finishes with a field goal...just about ran to script...still expecting to see a few more:2twocents
 
an angry mob will gather in paris. they will wheel out the guillotine, lube the blade, raise it to full height, and chop off michelak's right foot.

just goes to show what fear of losing and inhibition can do. (same as the stockmarket i guess)

the french tried to protect a 1 point lead. crazy. gotta play positive footy all the time.

if it wasnt so early and if i was feeling philosophical i would say rugby is just like life.

springboks will cream the poms, (and the world will never hear the end of it)
 
I watched the game with a bunch of Frogs and they were a little disappointed but I think accepted that they were lucky to be there.

Wilkinson is a very annoying player! :mad:

Go Argentina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
 
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/14/2059065.htm

One man does not make a team, certainly not in rugby, but England become a team to fear when Wilkinson is among their number
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You have to admit he's good ;)

Fallible but unflappable, Wilkinson strikes again
Posted 22 minutes ago

Cometh the hour, cometh the man ... Jonny Wilkinson makes a penalty goal attempt

After half an hour in the World Cup semi-final against France, England fly half Jonny Wilkinson had a full house of misses - conversion, field goal and penalty. Even England's fans must have wondered if three years out of the game had taken the edge off their sharpest weapon.

But, as he has done so many times during those injury-racked years, Wilkinson dusted himself down, put it behind him and thought about the next opportunity. It did not come until a 47th-minute penalty and after his early wobbles, the perfectionist goalkicker was not about to be rushed.

At the end of a week when his concerns about the balls had made the headlines, he rejected the first one offered to him from the sidelines, shouting out: "that is not a match ball".

Three misses to his name, uncertainty over the ball and most of the 80,000 crowd whistling, but it was nothing to the master craftsman as he confidently split the posts.

England were still trailing 9-8 after that, defending desperately as the French assaults became a constant wave.

In a rare escape, Wilkinson - who kicked all the points in a 24-7 win over France at the same stage in 2003 - lined up another field goal but saw the ball rebound from a post and then he needed treatment after being flattened in a tackle.

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Perfect execution

It was the 75th minute, a place in the World Cup final probably depending on the accuracy of his kick and the state of his mind.

All those lonely hours on the training field. All those weeks in the treatment room and all those painful months of rehabilitation and suddenly it was down to one more perfect execution of the most famous kicking technique in the game.

Straight and true, the ball sailed over and everything had changed.

England's forwards ground down the clock with all the experience gained by the oldest team ever to take the field in a World Cup.

Wilkinson, though, had the final word, just as he had four years ago in the final against Australia when his last-gasp field goal won the title for England.

Another magnificent drop goal, a 78th-minute connection that ridiculed the three scratchy first-half efforts of French fly half Lionel Beauxis, sailed over the bar and England incredibly were on their way to the final.

"I think my body has never felt so sore," Wilkinson said after the 14-9 win.

Four weeks ago Wilkinson had sat in the stands here nursing an injured ankle while England were humiliated 36-0 by South Africa in the pool stage.

In seven days, if the Springboks get past Argentina on Monday morning (Australian time), he could line up against them with a chance to help England become the first team to retain the World Cup.

One man does not make a team, certainly not in rugby, but England become a team to fear when Wilkinson is among their number.
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Personally I would like to see the Springboks annihilate England. Not very happy after the Austrlian exit, both this world cup and last :mad:.

Its time someone beat Johnny and that boot of his.
 
crystal ball time...
eng wont have a dominant scrum
boks are hungrier
boks play much better open rugby, better loosies.
johnny cant kick em from his own 22
if its dry, sa will comfortably win
if its wet, eng will play 10 man rugby, and have a chance.

boks by13, whence most of the eng team will retire.

super16 coming soon.
 
arminius,

Crystal ball overlooked major factor...Jones (the consultant) is a loser.
Can one believe the rubbish written (ascribed to Jake White) in the CM today about Eddie? Remember this same Eddie?: Eddie Jones has been sacked as coach of the Wallabies after a disappointing run of eight defeats in nine games.

Just hope for a good hard game.
 
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The only thing worse would have been if the yanks made the final....gotta disagree with ya arminius the Sth African scrum will get smashed....the only way I see sth africa losing is if they lose their disipline and get someone(s) sent off....a little bit too much passion one thinks
on another note History does have a way of repeating itself and if England were to win I wouldn't be surprised if a Johnny Wilkinson drop goal clinched it:2twocents
 
Pat said:
...Thats why I hate Johnny "field goal" Wilkinson, and thats why I hate Andrew Johns... or hated, he's alright now he admitted he's a drug'o LOL!!!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Pehaps Mr Wilkinson is too?

I like the underdog.
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hey Pat - you might be onto something - just kick the little ball over the big goalposts you reckon

there was a joke wasn't there - golfer?
all you have to do is use these special lenses, and just putt the little ball in the big cup etc. ;)

May the best team win - btw - I think it's worth noting that the poms seem to set up Johnny W perfectly for his field goal attempts - must be some teamwork up to that point you'd think.

Also even the wallabies would prefer to give away a penalty goal that a try etc - so in effect , they are more than JW - although without him they are halved or quartered etc (my opinion - pretending I know what I'm talking about here lol)
 
Don't know wether to go for sth africa -12 pts or england with a field goal ...any speculators?
 
Well, I'm a Pommy by birrth and only moved here recently ('91 to be exact ;) )
I was always an ardent England supporter (really winds folks up), until the Ashes this year - enough was enough! Still, with Australia out,
Go The Poms !

Must say, though, that South African kicker - Montgomery - seems every bit a match for Jonny. England's defence is good, but relying on that's not going to stop the RSA juggernaut; England'll have to disrupt their game plan (which is what they've done the last couple of matches). It's going to be an interesting game :)
 
I have never had to barrick for the Springboks EVER.:banghead:

But for the sake of RUNNING RUGBY I find myself hoping they win.

I hope I never have to barrick for them again.
 
its like that eh. do i want my front tooth ripped out or my wisdom tooth.

eng played expansive footy in the first half v us, so i guess its time to give them thanks for the steam engine and Catherine Zeta Jones (welsh i know but close enough) and go for the poms.

at least i can sing along with their anthem.

COME ON POMS!!!! Give j robinson some time and space!!
 
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