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Juicy weekend of rugby, kick offs in GMT

Friday

Ireland vs New Zealand - 2010

Saturday

England vs Australia - 1510
Italy vs Argentina - 1740
France vs Japan - 2010

Sunday

Wales vs Fiji - 1340
Scotland vs South Africa - 1610

Share your predictions, post some reactions, and bonus question: how many cards this weekend?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wonder if Wales will join in campaigning against the new red card sanction after they somehow managed to fail to beat a Fijian team down to 13 at one point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wales are traditionalists at the top, part of the reason they are struggling. Personally I'm for it, even if Scotland’s looked very soft in the stadium.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Outcome wise its a bit hard to see it being worse than a Yellow, but given what happened to Tupaea's knee and he's only just getting back to near that top flight level now its probably fair to be punishing based on the potential outcome.

Its early days for the north to get used to it yet, but the true beauty of the 20 minute card now we've had it in place for a while is how much less whinging about stuff there is. Fans, players, coaches, they all just cop it & move on because whether its perception or reality it just doesn't feel like the card is a game killer.

Those sorts of "trying to do something you would normally try in rugby but screwing it up and doing a foul play" cards often have so much grey area; but the sanction that punishes the player more than the team really does seem to work here. Especially when we've had straight reds for punches, head-butts which are just so much more obviously deliberate & thus worse.