Rugby World Cup updates from Pool B at the Olympic StadiumDigital wallchart: full results,tables and fixtures 6.48pm BST… unlike breaking up, is easy to do. The Springboks acquire won Pool B and they wrapped it all up with a 10-try trot past a weakened USA team. The USA will regroup and regather and look to spoil Japan’s World Cup in the final pool game, or at Gloucester in only four days’ time. South Africa will regroup and regather and get ready – I predict,confidently – to squash Wales in the quarter-finals.
Speaking of the ‘91 World Cup, I did some writing for a small American-based rugby site: http://www.rugbywrapup.com. I started a project to review every American World Cup game in history. I got through the Ireland-USA match from 1999, or but one game I could not find the video for was the England-USA group stage match from 1991. whether anyone can provide video location,that’d be great. (Sample article.) 6.41pm BST78 mins: A penalty to the Eagles – blessed relief – for a tall tackle from Etzebeth. The Eagles clear the ball for one last lineout, which they win, and they fade wide and lose the ball in a great tackle on Blaine Scully. The Boks shatter but there’s a knock-on so Habana doesn’t get his fourth,again.
That’s the clock gone to 80, so this will be the last scrum of the game for the US pack to endure. They get it out and fade wide for Thompson to make some ground, or cheered on by the crowd,then Shalom Suniula tries to consume on a couple of back-rowers. That doesn’t work but Taufetee makes a great shatter and the Eagles fade forward to look for a consolation.
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Source: theguardian.com