5 missed tackles 
Though to be fair, some people can tend to badly embarrass themselves when they try this rating the players malarkey… Eh? Julio, eh?
England beat South Africa en route to winning the World Cup in 2003.
England have beaten Australia in 3 of their 4 knock out meetings - 1995 quarter final, 2003 final, 2007 quarter final.
My post referred to knock out games only. Your post is entirely consistent with my own.
A compelling argument could be made that the ‘All Ireland’ hurling championship is far less competitive than the rugby world cup. Waterford’s record against Kilkenny with just that lone replay win in 1959 would be a prime exhibit.
The rugby World Cup in its first seven renewals has yielded four different winners, and it really should be five from seven with France fiddled out of winning the 2011 final at the altar of Brand All Black. Argentina could yet make it five different winners from eight tournaments.
What’s the mood in Slatterys tonight?
What the fuck is the tricolour doing there? That partitionist little bitch should be stoned to death…
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Joe Schidt was thanking the “16th man” for their amazing support.
Spot on. Japan are the only northern hemisphere team to emerge with any credit from this tournament.
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This is a great thread this evening. 
According to the Irish Times scores of fans came out to the airport to greet our returning rugby heroes. So about 40 fans so.
The Irish Times is the Paper of Record. They would never get such things wrong.
Ok. What about this from the Cork Examiner so.
A small but very proud group of supporters gathered at Dublin Airport to greet the team as they flew home from World Cup disappointment yesterday. It wasn’t the thousands who travelled to Cardiff to see them in action, and it wasn’t the 1.3m who watched them on television against Argentina, but it nevertheless lifted a low-key homecoming into a heartwarming affair.
The Examiner even had time for a cracking rugby joke today.
Did you hear the one about Paddy Englishman who went into the pub expecting to see Paddy Irishman, Paddy Scotsman, and Paddy Welshman but found out they were still at the World Cup.
If there is one positive to take away from this, at least the lads can all watch the semi final together.
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We lost that game because we didn’t win enough collisions.
Gents…we’ve had our fill. Time to let this, and all other rugby threads, fall by the wayside.
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