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Anyway …..

Fiji 7-0 and a.missed pen with 14 men

England functional and effective can’t be giving away too many oens though mustn’t become complacent

Embarrassing

Just incredible and we still have tomorrow evening

Just looked inevitable that Ireland would win and nz are 3-0 since the yellow

Can’t wait for the second half and one of these v s Africa or France in the final will be incredible I think the semis could pretty much be non events

Have we had the discussion on here why the NZ player is called ‘Leicester’ ?

In retrospect not taking the three points early on was a mistake in a qtr final like this

Qataris apparently withdrawing from yanited purchase

Well we can all see that apologies are hard to come by in s wales !

Look up a few posts we don’t know what the actual injury is

Disagree when you get a corner a minute into a minute of added time it’s probably not the cleverest idea to take it short she was correct to do that her judgment of Gallagher’s tackle is another matter!

I’m pretty sure that Israel doesn’t want any of Gaza.

It’s not that sunil - they are probably going to drop bunker bombs to try and destroy Hamas’ tunnel network and they want to get as many civilians out of the north as they can because collateral damage will be enormous compared to what we’ve seen thus far when these things are dropped. I believe that the tunnels are more concentrated in the north of Gaza. id be surprised if this all starts tomorrow but if they have a timetable that they want to stick to them maybe it will. if they were deliberately bombing civilians then the death toll from 6000 missiles and rockets already dropped would be way more than 1800. as pointed out a few days ago, there is a difference between targeting civilians and not being that careful about civilian casualties. (that’s not me saying this is the IDF policy )

How far back do you want to go ? the Judea popular people’s front ?

That’s not intel on that level though Israel blockades Gaza and allows in supplies based on agreements with Hamas (yes they did speak on a civil level ) there would be arrangements of diesel deliveries based on back up supplies. It would be known that the power plant in Gaza would have around ten days back up supply

I think the only way england win is ultra strong disciplined defence and even stronger tactical strategy. No room for throwing it around. Smith is surely not the player for that? An expansive game simply plays into Fiji’s hands

Ford and steward dropped is the judgment that Fiji are unlikely to kick many high balls? I’d be more concerned about Marcus smith at full back with their enormous players running at him!

BBC are saying that French police quoted man arrested shouted ‘allahhu Akbar’ . Seems clear from that. Not sure it does lose sympathy in general - the images from Gaza are truly awful and I assume it’s accepted that some people will be unable to cope and this is the consequence.

Pretty sure that they won’t come in on the ground tomorrow - you wouldn’t give your enemy (this is war between Israel and Hamas) specific notice of your arrival I read that israel are intent on destroying the tunnel structure below ground as best they can because that’s where Hamas will likely be fighting from. That will involve even heavier bombing than seen this week. been doing some reading up on the water and power situation in Gaza. I think the power is the main issue for water supply - Israel itself is not the main supplier of water in Gaza. Israel’s judgement is that there should have been sufficient diesel in Gaza to enable the electricity to have stayed on for at least ten days. The fact that it’s not means that either a) it’s been put aside to keep generators on at medical facilities b) Hamas have taken it for their own power needs

Generally because those who accuse will come from their standpoint and interpret what they read rather than actually read. sadly you really have to choose your words if you want to try and be neutral. as long as people are respectful in their responses then i expect those who are neutral will deal with it

I understand it - bbc journalists have tweeted the term before in other incidents and claim that this was on their personal SM accounts rather than official bbc ones. I would assume that a bbc journalist wanting to retain objectivity shouldn’t have a personal SM account ??

French teacher stabbed to death in arras now arras is not in the Middle East but I suspect this murder is related to current events in the Middle East I presume the assailant was simply answering the call from the Hamas leadership in Qatar for a day of rage to occur across the world today - Qatar …… who are about to buy the biggest football club in this country ….

I think it’s from the basis that Hamas attacked civilians with no care whatsoever as to who they killed, where they were from , how old they were etc etc (yeah I know) the us are viewing the Israeli response as acceptable and reasonable - currently i guess if you don’t want to hear an American ‘pro Israel’ perspective from a press conference in Israel then maybe don’t watch it ???