I was looking into getting tickets to watch Wales vs Japan in Pool B. I would have loved to have gone and watched Wales against Australia, but can’t really afford it.

Any way, luckily I looked into train tickets to get to Cardiff Central from London, before I purchased the ticket, since by the time the game has finished the train home would take 7 1/2 hours..

Well since you ask, the route they suggest is

Depart: 22:00 Cardiff Central (CDF)
Arrive: 23:00 Bristol Temple Meads (BRI)

Depart: 23:44 Bristol Temple Meads (BRI)
Arrive: 00:39 Taunton (TAU)

Depart: 02:47 Taunton (TAU)
Arrive: 05:24 London Paddington (PAD)

So it looks like I will have to watch the rugby on television like everyone else..

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There was an interesting article in the Sunday Times called Taking on the World which amused me slightly. This was the day after the French game (that England lost 21-15) and two days before the squad for the world cup should be announced.

What intrigued me was that the 4 experts (Stephen Jones, Neil Back, Jeremy Guscott and Stuart Barnes) were so different in their selections. The obvious difference is Lewis Moody, considered good enough to be in the starting line up by Neil Back, but not considered good enough to be in the squad of 30 by Stuart Barnes and Jeremy Guscott.

Like with all big decisions we all have our opinion and I love to ‘play along at home’ and work out who I would pick. I was just shocked at how much of a difference there was.

Brian Ashton’s England Squad going to the Rugby World Cup

Taken from

Backs: M Cueto, J Lewsey, J Robinson, P Sackey, D Hipkiss, J Noon, M Tait, M Catt, A Farrell, O Barkley, J Wilkinson, A Gomarsall, S Perry, P Richards.

Forwards: G Chuter, L Mears, M Regan, P Freshwater, A Sheridan, M Stevens, P Vickery, S Borthwick, M Corry, B Kay, S Shaw, L Dallaglio, N Easter, L Moody, T Rees, J Worsley.

Omitted: N Abendanon, D Cipriani, T Flood, J Haskell, C Hodgson, T Palmer, M Tindall, K Yates

Who the pundits left behind…

Just for comparison, lets see who the pundits left behind, and see how close we get. Bold matches Brian Ashton’s squad

Neil Back left behind: Nick Abendanon, Toby Flood, Kevin Yates, James Haskell, Tom Palmer, Nick Easter

Stuart Barnes left behind: Danny Cipriani, Toby Flood, Kevin Yates, Steve Borthwick, Lewis Moody, Nick Easter

Jeremy Guscott left behind: Paul Sackey, Andy Farrell, Toby Flood, Perry Freshwater, Steve Borthwick, Lewis Moody

Stephen Jones left behind: Nick Abendanon, Mathew Tait, Toby Flood, Andy Farrell, Steve Borthwick, Nick Easter

Pundits - wrong, wrong, wrong

Neil Back wins guessing 5/6 correctly, followed by Stuart Barnes with 3/6, Stephen Jones with 2/6 and trailing behind Jeremy Guscott only getting 1/6 right.

You can watch how well the England team do by following them on television.

I’ll open it up for comments. - Who would you have left behind?

Hi.

This blog has come out of wanting to find out how I could watch the games in the rugby world cup. I hadn’t seen anybody advertising the fact that they were showing the world cup and was worried that I would either have to miss the games or I would have to spend lots of my hard earned money on cable or satellite.

The good news is that a vast majority of the games are being shown on terrestrial television. This is the list of rugby games on ITV 1. For the other games you will need to be able to watch ITV 3 or ITV 4.

Watching Rugby on ITV3 or ITV4

In order to watch ITV3 or ITV4 you will either need Satellite, Cable or a freeview box. Freeview is the cheapest way (it requires no subscription), and you can pick up freeview boxes from Amazon from as little as £20