Score?
Even the third tier is completely imbalanced. Portugal went through all the other sides like shit through a goose going off that wiki
Average 48 point winning margin 
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Sounds like a very good performance from South Africa. Likely quarter final opponents for Ireland. @dodgy_keeper, @glasagusban and @anon61878697 have had Ireland down as favourites for that potential match up for a long time.
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Jersey destroyed Russia recently, they have to be included
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Fixtures certainly couldnât have fallen any kinder for Ireland. Schmidt has the experience of one world cup under his belt and had been building up to this one for four years. Ireland will never have a better chance, up to them to take it.
This @ChairmanDan chap has got absolutely eviscerated over the past few days by @the_man_himself and @Big_Dan_Campbell. His inferiority complex with association football is as prevalent as youâll see.
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I see what I assume was a Connaught side without some of their front line players gave Russia a similar enough trimming in the lead up to the WC to what Ireland did during the week.
Hard to disagree with Franno here, the Vodafone Irelandâs teams goose is cooked. As @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy points out, good thing we donât have to play the likes of Jersey, we could be in trouble
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A mate of mine (an Aussie) was living in DâNetherlands over a decade ago - he says heâd occasionally get a phone call asking would he mind togging out for the Dutch National Team that afternoon. I wonder if theyâve moved on much since those days.
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I would have thought Moscow would provide better investment opportunities
Though it does carry the risk of being poisoned with an umbrella or mysteriously suicided if things go wrong
25th best team in the world currently
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The humidity in Moscow would be far more manageable.
The Siberians seemed to deal with the humidity of Japan quite well yesterday
With EU free movement, I wonder would the Dutch approach an All-Star panel of Leinster schools players who arenât good enough to make it with Leinster
Give them scholarships to top Dutch universities where they could study accounting or international finance or whatever through English
All the while, they would train together as a team
At the end of five years, they would become the Dutch national team and almost certainly would be good enough to qualify for the World Cup
Sounds like an interesting Project
Tinking outshide the boxsh
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Which mighty ducks film did you lift that from?
Thatâs it
Get a film production company to fund it as a documentary
Green, Shite and Orange
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Green, Shoite & Orange
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Iâm serious about this project
Even if you took just one schools team
Letâs say Gonzaga (cc: of balbec)
When you look at what Vasya Artemiev has done, itâs a serious runner
If that Gonzaga team was offered the chance to stay together as a team and move to Holland, bide their time with the residency rules etc, in five years they would be easily able to compete at international level
They would surely qualify for a World Cup
Say for 2023, weâll say the qualifiers begin in 2021
If you had taken the 2016 Gonzaga SCT team, by 2021 theyâd be eligible
By 2023 they could be proudly flying the Dutch flag on the world stage in France
Maybe Josh van der Flier could switch allegiance as well to help them out
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