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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Fijis historic conquering of Wales

A global audience of millions witnessed one of the most spectacular games of World Cup rugby on saturday as Wales and Fiji met in the all important Pool B decider in Nantes.

Fiji got off to a flying start, leading 25-3 at one stage with everything going right for them. They controlled play beautifully and then let loose with their devastating backs, Sevens star Vilimoni Delasau having a particularly good game.

Wales came back though, and when Martyn Williams scored an intercept try it looked as if it were over for Fiji.

The Fijians kept fighting though, and with four minutes left they snuck a try that gave them the belief they needed. Flyhalf Nicky Little, who sadly seriously injured his leg shortly before full time, converted the try with a vital kick that insured the Welsh wouldn't be able to slot a dropkick or penalty to win it.

This classic ended with the south sea islanders in front and meant that for the first time sing 1987, Fiji will be in the Quarter Finals of the World Cup. It also meant that Wales will be going home, with their coach subsequently having been sacked.

Final Score: 38 - 34 to Fiji
Music: Quarashi - Stick 'Em Up

Labels: World Cup 2007

Haha yes to the Fijians.

By Anonymous, at September 30, 2007 6:46 pm
Good game, could have gone the other way if wales didn't miss so many kicks.

By Anonymous, at September 30, 2007 6:56 pm
fiji already played quater finals in 1987

By Anonymous, at September 30, 2007 6:58 pm
Wow! I can't wait to download that match, it looks amazing. Good music too, and I love the smirk right before he kicks the conversion.

By Anonymous, at September 30, 2007 7:11 pm
well done by wales to come back and take the lead. but personally i always like to watch the welsh get beaten and the bigger the event the better. same bout ireland today and its bad that only the former world champions and scotland got through from the UK countries.Come on the WORLD CHAMPIONS

By Anonymous, at September 30, 2007 7:36 pm
fuck off.irish aren't a uk team. two out of three uk teams got through, that's a pretty good return.

By Anonymous, at September 30, 2007 8:31 pm
an awesome video, really well put together. how'd you get all the different views? itv coverage is gash

By Anonymous, at September 30, 2007 11:59 pm
I love gareth thomas. and christopher where are you downloading this?

By Anonymous, at October 01, 2007 3:55 am
Awesome victory! Best Game of Pool Play!

Gotta feel sorry for the welsh, always getting outed by the island teams at the world cup, samoa twice and now fiji...

By Anonymous, at October 01, 2007 5:24 am
You should be able to download all of the albums from Media Zone.

By Anonymous, at October 01, 2007 7:31 am
Pumas are gonna cream the Scots.

By Anonymous, at October 01, 2007 3:57 pm
Epic Game with great video preparation and great music!!!

By Anonymous, at October 01, 2007 7:57 pm
Well, considering the northern part of Ireland is still being claimed by the Crown, my math says 2/3 teams made it.

If you POMs don't want the blame (on the pitch), then don't make the claim (of the empire)

By Anonymous, at October 02, 2007 5:21 am
2/4. check that

By Anonymous, at October 02, 2007 5:21 am
Great video from a fan's perspective. Most videos are single-sided (one team's achievements).

Typical Fijian flair, but the aerial view of Shane Williams... man, it almost seemed he needed the afro and the palm tree on his jersey -- a page out of Fiji's book.

Best of luck to Fiji -- they are representing the underdogs the rest of the way.

By Anonymous, at October 02, 2007 5:23 am
cheyanqui,
there are 6 players of northern irish nationality in the 30 man irish squad.

so if you want to be pedantic, which you clearly do, then it's 2 uk teams out of 3 and a fifth.

and i'm not a fucking pom.

By Anonymous, at October 02, 2007 7:42 pm
Fiji played a physical game and somewhat dirty at times. Its going to be great to see south Africa and fiji go at it. SA being the dirtiest team for late tackles and taking a bite at players, dam cannibals. I predict 2 yellow cards and one red for sure, let them destroy each other so the rest of our teams can play good clean rugby.

By Anonymous, at October 03, 2007 1:22 am
Wonderful game, and good for Fiji for sticking through that. I'm going for them against SA (although unlikely), and as far as they take this, as well as NZ.

By Anonymous, at October 03, 2007 1:26 am
Apart from the arsehole english supporters some fair comments(im Welsh by the way!). Fiji deserved their win, Wales were tactically naive trying to play 7's against the best in the World! Come on Scotland and England in the quarter finals and even France against the Blacks!

By Anonymous, at October 04, 2007 5:08 pm
Fuck yea!!!!...tats how we fijians role...try by delasau>>>>>AMAZING!!!!!!!!

By Anonymous, at October 05, 2007 4:28 pm
incredable try from delesau

By Anonymous, at October 06, 2007 5:46 am
that silly english man a few comments down...dont forget who beat you in the last six nations ..wanker

By Anonymous, at October 14, 2007 4:40 pm
Got to of been the match of the tournament, I'm welsh and sometimes its heartbreaking the way we play...3 match saving tries in the opening 10mins of the second half, and what do we do? throw the game away all over again.
Lovely run by Shane Williams.

By Anonymous, at October 22, 2007 1:41 pm
You can keep Bryan Habana, Shane Williams = best winger in the world, IMO. And thats saying something, seeing as I'm English. I dont care about rivalries between nations and stuff like that (although i do hate Australia and NZs arrogance, Aussies saying they hate all English people made our win over them in the 1/4 finals even more satisfying) and i could say Jason Robinson beats Williams, but tbh Williams is already showing more pace, flair and creativity than Robinson has done in his 7-year Union career. The welsh side in general let themselves down by being quite limited in some aspects, but when they get the ball moving their a devastating side, and they have great team spirit, but the best team won that game, well done Fiji for creating the most exciting game ever...ill never forget Will Greenwood, who was commentating on this game, yelling just before the final whistle went "its over wales have lost!!", not in a nasty way, just out of pure shock - noone expected it. Well done Fiji, and good luck to Wales in the Six nations in a few months time.

By Anonymous, at October 26, 2007 4:16 pm
so true, the world needs more wingers of his class. shame he's getting on, dont think he'll make the next world cup. we'll sure miss him.

By Anonymous, at October 26, 2007 4:32 pm
if fiji had the right coaches and sponsors they'd be the best in the world

By Anonymous, at November 10, 2007 3:08 am
so true. Fiji has some hard hitters and brilliant runners

By Anonymous, at November 10, 2007 3:11 am
Fiji u legend

By Anonymous, at November 10, 2007 8:08 pm
wtf!!!! wales defence sucks

By Anonymous, at November 15, 2007 7:22 am
i am from wales and when martin williams scored that try i thout it was it but then again the fuijians came back. Amazing display of rugby

By tom, at November 18, 2007 9:28 pm
i am from wales and when martin williams scored wales final try i thout we wan but the fuijians played outstanding and came back excellent game of rugby best in the world cup

By Anonymous, at November 18, 2007 9:30 pm
that out the back pass from rabeni was out of this world. doesnt look like he meant it from other angles but thats got it spot on

By Phil-the-manc, at December 07, 2007 2:47 pm
I'm welsh and although i was gutted we got knocked out, i was glad it was against fiji. Very friendly happy people and they realy deserved their win so i was happy for them. All the best to them in the next world cup, i just hope we don't play them next time.

By Anonymous, at December 14, 2007 12:03 am
i love fiji wish them well (coming from an irishman)

By Anonymous, at December 15, 2007 9:35 pm
Great game. I love the smirk right before the conversion.

By Anonymous, at January 20, 2008 1:11 pm
For every fan or rugby lover out there that says high tackles and cheap shots are the reasons why the games lack sportmanship, why don't you go play with your dolls. It's a hard game, with full contact. If the palyers aren't complaining, why are you. Some bad stuff creeps in there but every player knows to expect, besides there is no greater injustice then watching top tier nations deprive smaller, enthusiastic, rugby playing countries of the help they need while stealing all their talented young players.

By Anonymous, at January 23, 2008 3:57 am
er, looks like someone has a chip or their shoulder, its not as if top tier nations come and steal the players in the middle of the night. its the players choice, play for your country or play for the money.

By Anonymous, at February 11, 2008 1:28 pm
love that video, fiji represent everything good about rugby. they'd smash wales tomorrow if they played

By Anonymous, at March 19, 2008 11:37 pm
this is the best rugbydump video by a distance. even the commentary delay sits with it really well

By Anonymous, at May 29, 2008 10:33 pm
where the hell has the video gone?

By Anonymous, at August 28, 2008 3:46 am
It hasn't gone anywhere 2Luke. Try refreshing ;)

By Anonymous, at August 28, 2008 6:51 pm
one of the most entertaining games ever!!

By Anonymous, at October 01, 2008 12:33 pm
Typical of Wales, this, then come back with a grandslam.

By Anonymous, at October 31, 2008 4:05 pm
at least we went out in entertaining fashion to an exiting side! Thats the way rugby should be played not like England who just keep the ball with their giant,fat,ugly forwards before giving it to jonny wilkinson who drops a goal or kicks a penalty. Glad to see huge imoblile packs are dying out with some of the ELVs. Some argument though for reducing the amount a drop goal is to 2-or increasing a conversion to 3. anyway for some reason we cant beat the pacific islanders at the world cup! Samoa were out bogie team and now the Fijians aswell!gutted england got through to the knoockout stages playing negative rugby. well done Fiji though. end of rant.lol -kiwiwelshboy

By Anonymous, at April 19, 2009 10:03 pm
kiwiwelshboy
bitter welsh loser. england had nothing to do with you losing to fiji. talk about the teams that were involved, and while you're at it, stop sponging off westminster you coal digging monkey

By Anonymous, at July 20, 2009 5:25 pm