DIDDUMS

So Scotland lost to Japan last night in a nail-biter Rugby World Cup pool decider.
How sad.

To be somewhat fair to the Scots they played a cracker of a second half scoring two tries to one after being down 3 tries to one in the first half.

Why diddums?

Scotland bleated about the unfairness of their game being cancelled earlier due to the dangers of Cyclone Hagibis and threatened to take legal action. A cancellation would have triggered an immediate draw with no bonus points so Japan would have automatically gone through to the quarter finals. That's the rules. As it turned out they got trounced.

Now Japan will play South Africa in the quarters. It's a big ask to progress to the semi-finals but I hope that they pull another big performance out of the hat and beat the Boks.
New Zealand will play another whingeing team in the quarter -finals - Ireland. Ireland via management, team members and press haven't done themselves any favours recently by criticising and sniping at the All Blacks.

"Have a nice cup of tea boys"

That'll be a game to watch next weekend to be sure to be sure.