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World Rugby U20 Championship

Recap: World Rugby U20 Championship 2024 in Cape Town – Day Two

By Liam Heagney
Argentina U20s celebrate against South Africa in Stellenbosch

It’s match day two at the World Rugby U20 Championship in South Africa and we are in for a feast of action with Ireland-Georgia, France-New Zealand and South Africa-Argentina scheduled to play in Stellenbosch while over in Athlone the matches are Wales-Spain, England-Fiji and Australia-Italy.

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RugbyPass will spend the day at the Danie Craven where the all-European clash of the Irish and the Georgians gets things going at 2pm local time. It’s a 4:30pm start for the French, the reigning champions, against the Baby Blacks, while the hosts, the Junior Boks, have a 7pm kick-off versus the Argentinians.

While we will be busy following in person the ebb and flow of these three matches, we will also have RugbyPass TV running on the phone to keep track of the twists and turns in Athlone where the 7pm meeting of the Junior Wallabies and the Italians is the pick of the bunch.

RugbyPass TV is streaming live all six match day two games and you can watch for free in countries that don’t have an exclusive local host broadcaster deal – click here to sign up/log in.

RugbyPass published its day two match-by-match guide on Wednesday, listing all the teams, the number of changes in the XVs, and predicting the outcome of the matches – click here to check out the selected teams.

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Four World Rugby U20 Championship match day two talking points

It’s the sort of programme that should have rugby fans having two gadgets on the go at the same time so that none of the action is missed as it happens. RugbyPass TV will be streaming all games live and for free in countries that don't have an exclusive local broadcaster deal.

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We followed that with a talking points preview of the round two action as well as exclusive interviews with a variety of players such as England’s Asher Opoku-Fordjour, Australia’s Harry McLaughlin-Phillips, Wales’ Lucas de la Rea and South Africa’s Bruce Sherwood. Follow the RugbyPass live blog below for all this coverage and more as the Thursday action unfolds:      

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Jmann 2 days ago

Two magnificent and well-deserved wins. Clearly having a warm up before the U20s is paying dividends for the SH teams.

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carlos 20 minutes ago
Youthful France punish listless Argentina in Mendoza

We’ve been saying Pumas has the wrong coach. We’ve been right. Hopeless.

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Barry 25 minutes ago
Kwagga Smith and three other South Africa vs Ireland talking points

Harsh on Lowe. Had a legit try chalked off. Gave the scoring pass for two other tries, both of them offloads in the tackle and both beauties. His team mates didn't cover back for him for the 2nd bok try when he kept the ball alive.

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Flankly 29 minutes ago
The Andy Farrell reaction to the TMO calls that went against Ireland

“You’ll make your own decision on whether he still had the ball in his right hand or whether the ball hit him as he threw it back into field and his foot was in touch” An easier decision is whether or not you should be trying to slap a loose ball in front of a player like Kolbe, especially when you know he will be chasing the kick.

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Flankly 53 minutes ago
Kwagga Smith and three other South Africa vs Ireland talking points

“the most rousing Springbok pack moment was when Erasmus hooked six of the starting eight forwards” Another contender might be the Irish pack on roller skates that gave away the penalty try.

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jacques 54 minutes ago
Kwagga Smith and three other South Africa vs Ireland talking points

How the wheel have turned. 6 Years ago all my fellow South African supporters would have been up in arms about how the rugby world and just the world in general were against them if the roles were reversed on Saturday. We would be waiting for Rassie to release his video. Now that most of the calls go for us we don’t care. Rassie could not stop complaining when calls went against us and now he could not care less. SA supporters are like the ANC, they complain about looting unless they can partake in it, go figure.

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Flankly 1 hours ago
The reason why Andy Farrell believes Ireland can level Test series

The Lowe call for the Kolbe try did not go against Lowe. It was in his favor, not against him. He was trying very hard to keep the ball in play, and the ref/TMO decided that he succeeded. It was brilliantly athletic, committed and focused. And it was close, but he managed to get it done. Thumbs up from the ref. Good job, Lowe. The problem is that keeping a loose ball in play when you have Kolbe prowling around is not the safest thing to do. So Irish commentators are now wishing that the call had gone against Lowe, which is fair enough. But it is a bit weird to go further and say that Lowe was unlucky to be ruled successful at something he tried so hard to pull off. You’d have to believe that in the tape review the conversation will sound more like “WTF - don’t do that”.

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Flankly 1 hours ago
Rassie Erasmus claims beating Ireland wasn’t ‘monkey off the back win'

“some brilliant moments but also some awful moments” - quite right.

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Flankly 1 hours ago
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The Healy illegal obstruction on Steenekamp was the reason for the clear running lane for the Kelleher inside pass, and for the resulting Murray try. Some other refs/TMOs would have disallowed the try and awarded a Bok penalty. It is true that Steenekamp should have read it better, and positioned himself between Healy and Kelleher (leaving Moerat to handle Healy if the pass went there). So it is a good call out on Steenekamp. But such clean defensive line breaks in the inside channels are always suspicious with defenses as organized as these. The TMO should have been carefully reviewing that inside pass immediately. Healy will claim that he was just running a receiver line, but you can tell by his eye and hand movements that his role was to block the defender. To state the obvious - the try also featured a two on one against Sacha. That was a direct result of the Arendse yellow card, with Le Roux positioned wide on the left rather than sweeping the back field.

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jim 2 hours ago
Rassie Erasmus claims beating Ireland wasn’t ‘monkey off the back win'

Pretty fair and accurate comments I think

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World 3 hours ago
The Andy Farrell reaction to the TMO calls that went against Ireland

I wonder if Luke Pearce and Ben Whitehouse had a little wager at Paddy Power before the match.

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Jon 4 hours ago
Kwagga Smith and three other South Africa vs Ireland talking points

Lowe had a night to forget Liam? He was one few shining lights and bright spots in peoples hopes I would have thought. Do you mean Lowe would rather forget the game? This also isn’t the forum for you to complain about your set at the rugby. I don’t see Kwagga holding his spot, I think Roos will be given the jersey to provide more oomph.

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MitchO 4 hours ago
Kwagga Smith and three other South Africa vs Ireland talking points

In Japan they have people walking around with kegs of beer as a backpack. Only need to leave your seat to go to the loo. They even have people walking around with hot tea and edible food. Very civilised

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John 5 hours ago
Kwagga Smith and three other South Africa vs Ireland talking points

Why is Kwagga so weak under the high ball?

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keith 5 hours ago
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With 3 international referees monitoring South Africa v Ireland, why am I seeing the TMO getting involved so much.All the forward passes missed,collapsed scrums,neck rolls where does the TMO role begin and end?Officials need to step up and improve.It was a similar story in the WustraliavWales game.

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Bob 6 hours ago
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I’m no expert in Rugby but the team looks like that from last year with the same problems. The lineout like last year was poor and goal kicking is under par with crucial points going astray. We were lucky to win. This team has the same problems again and they need to improve in these areas to be world beaters.

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Toaster 6 hours ago
England statement: Call-up for uncapped prop Emmanuel Iyogun

After getting to grips with the weird Georgian refs penalties against the ABs in the early scrums where the crafty and experienced Marler wasn’t taking the hit, the ABs got on top Baxter who looks 12 did very well but having to play 65 odd it told in the end Stuart got crushed The ABs have two massive props in Tosi and Williams who are destructive who didn’t make the bench Maybe they will be held back for the Boks? We will need as much power as possible Hard luck Marler - top player and real funny bloke

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Toaster 6 hours ago
The Andy Farrell reaction to the TMO calls that went against Ireland

Dan on here is getting it in the neck isn’t he? 🤣

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Turlough 6 hours ago
Bomb Squad flex muscles as South Africa grind out win over Ireland

TMO call on Kelleher was ridiculously harsh. How could there be clear and compelling evidence that he deliberately kicked the ball on the ground when his head was buried and he couldn't see where the ball was? Pivotal decision arguably. SA were clearly the stronger team but will be disappointed at the points return. Irish defence was reasonably good and the scoreboard pressure (only leading by a score) seemed to be pressuring South Africa. Their scrum will perform better next time now Irelands first test tricks are known. The other Irish backs should have supported Lowe when he retrieved the Pollard penalty. They were blowing hard. Maybe that was the altitude try.

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Wayneo 6 hours ago
Kwagga Smith and three other South Africa vs Ireland talking points

Was a decent read until the sourpuss whining at the end about people having a great time at Loftus. The poor bloke might have a coronary if he ever went near the pre and post-match festivities outside the stadium.

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Toaster 6 hours ago
The All Blacks on England's blitz defence and how they will respond at Eden Park

Not sure why there is huge concern Many changes to the ABs and many players who haven’t played for a long time Scooter for two months Saders players several weeks Canes a few weeks and guys like Lomax have also had a domestic sabbatical- so hardly any minutes New coaching team and lots for the players to digest Nothing changes - it will be another very tough match next week against a desperate England

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