Rugby World Cup

  There are suppose to be very few people from Ireland heading over but im sure the ex pat communities in Austalia and N.Z will be out in force. All of Irelands games are on the weekend so it will be good in terms of watching on tv here.

New Zealand will bottle it again 

Edited by Landon Donovan - 03 Aug 2011 at 6:38am

See ye there sono

The french will win - from watching the first few tri nations games the Springboks are shocking, the aussie's look about on the same level as Ireland and england leaving it between the french and kiwi's and reckon the kiwi's will bottle it as usual

i heard there are only 500 heading from ireland itslef - according to the IRFU, but i as someone pointed out, ex-pats like Dec will be out in force for the 'Guoys In Green'

Kiwis can't keep bottling it, but I don't really give a bolix either way anyhow as I assume we'll be the only nation not walking out behind its national flag.

Ireland will win this

Whoops, I did indeed

Was at Heathrow Airport on the way to Oz back in 2007 a day after France beat New Zealand in the world cup and who walks in only the All Blacks team, none of them were talking it was all heads down i plucked up the courage to ask Carter for his autograph he was dead sound, i asked him what the reaction will be back in NZ and he said "mate dont even ask ill be happy to just get off the plane" the hurt in his face was unreal they really do bleed rugby in NZ and anything else other than winning the tournament would be a national disaster. Australia or New Zealand for me with South Africa being an outside bet (they should have all there players back for the home tri nations games)

Just been studying this from a betting point of view and all the groups have a competitive edge. Group A will obviously come down to the head to head between the Kiwis and Les Bleus.England's group is a nightmare one. Every game will be a gruelling forwards battle and will be intriguing. I imagine they will win with the Argentinians second. Our group is tricky too. We are I feel well capable of beating Australia and if we do we are on a roll. However we are as equally capable of getting it all wrong, getting battered and end up making extremely hard work of even qualifying against the Italians. I am certain there will be at least one surprise in Group D with South Africa in poor form and Wales unlucky not to beat them in November, lining one potential upset there. Samoa gaining confidence from beating Australia, albeit a weakened one, recently and Wales do have a habit of under performing against the tough Polynesian islanders. Take your pick for an upset.