Farrell’s f-bomb blow up at young gun, ABs’ beer gift to Irish, Fiji team struck by new tragedy – Beragampengetahuan

Reports have emerged of a rift inside the England camp sparked by a training ground bust-up between skipper Owen Farrell and the team’s young out-of-favour star.

Henry Arundell scored five tries in the 71-0 win over Chile but that’s the only time he’s featured in the tournament. Former England player Andy Goode has suggested his absence is due to a training ground clash with Farrell before the team arrived at the World Cup.

“We haven’t scored many tries. You’ve a kid in the stands, Henry Arundell, who scored five tries in one game,” Goode told the Rugby Pod.

“He’s got game-breaking ability, he’s got X-factor, and he can’t get a look in.

“But there’s a reason behind it. I heard through the grapevine and through my sources that Henry Arundell and Owen Farrell had a bit of a set-to and scrap at training. And, because you don’t mess around with Faz apparently in this England squad, that’s why Henry Arundell isn’t anywhere near the matchday 23.”

Henry Arundell of England runs to score a scores a try during game one of the international test match series between the Australian Wallabies and England at Optus Stadium on July 02, 2022 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Will Russell – RFU/The RFU Collection via Getty Images)

Goode’s claim has been backed up by reports in the UK media this week.

The Daily Mail said “Arundell was left visibly upset after being told to ‘chase those f–king kicks’ by Farrell, but said the skipper did not single out Arundell and “set high standards for all his teammates.”

After a tumultuous buildup to the tournament, it doesn’t seem as though things are calming down any time soon for England. They face Fiji in Marseille at 4pm on Sunday in the third of the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals.

Turn up the volume

Springboks hooker Bongi Mbonambi has revealed South Africa are training with blaring background noise to prepare for a “hostile” atmosphere they will receive in Monday’s AEST World Cup quarterfinal against hosts France.

The noise at France’s matches has been astonishing and they will have the majority of the 80,000-capacity Stade de France crowd roaring them on.

“The atmosphere is going to be massive,” said Mbonambi.

“We know they are going to be singing and everything like that but we’ve just got to embrace it and try to focus on our game plan.

“We will just take the atmosphere as it is. We played them in Marseille last November, which was a very hostile atmosphere, so we have experience of that.

“It will be hostile but for us as a team we have to focus on executing our plan. It is very important to shut out the noise.

“We have tried to simulate the noise in training so that when it comes to the match, it’s not the first time we have experienced it and it doesn’t come as a shock to us.”

South Africa narrowly lost 30-26 in the Marseille game.

“I think the intensity is going to be way more than Marseille,” he said. “That was just an end-of-year Test match. This is a World Cup quarter-final, so there’s a lot on the line.”

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Mbonambi said the team was drawing inspiration from the support from home.

“Back at home we have 60m South Africans who are looking for hope and inspiration and we take that out on the pitch,” he said.

“That is special. It is a massive privilege and a massive honour.

“Different players have different ways of preparing and when we’re on that bus together you do what you have to do to make sure your attention is just on the Springboks, just on South Africa.”

Beers are on us

Irish lock Tagdh Beirne has summed up the respect shown by the All Blacks to the men in green when they won their series in NZ last year.

Beirne was asked about the relationship between the two sets of players, with suggestions of ill feelings between them.

“Rugby’s one of those games where when you go on the field, you go to beat the crap out of each other for 80 minutes, and when you step off it, you are very happy to grab a beer with your opposition and enjoy the moment afterwards. It is no different with New Zealand,” said Beirne.

“I remember after the last Test when we had beaten them, we ran out of beer pretty quickly. But the New Zealand squad were quick to bring in their beer and leave us to continue celebrating. That’s respect too isn’t it? We know we are both going to go at each other for 80 minutes on Saturday, but we’d be very happy to walk into the changing room and have a beer with them, for sure.”

Ireland have won 17 games straight and Kiwi coach Ian Foster says they’ll never have a better time to claim the World Cup.

But having never won a RWC knockout game the pressure is on Andy Farrell’s men.

“An away series win in New Zealand had not been done before by an Irish team so we will take confidence from that,” Beirne said.

“But a year and a few months is a long time in rugby. I think they will be a different side come Saturday. We are massively looking forward to the challenge and we will take confidence from that [series win], but we are not getting ahead of ourselves.

“Every week feels like the biggest game [in Ireland’s history]. This one is no different. We have been preparing for the World Cup for a long time. The mentality every week is it’s a must-win game for us, much like last week. The same goes for this week if we want to continue on in the World Cup.”

Fiji rocked again

On the heels of the death of Fiji star Josua Tuisova’s son, the team has been struck again with the death of hooker Sam Matavesi’s father.

“The team would like to send our condolences to Sam and the family. We heard that Sam’s old man passed, I think, last night. He has been one of our senior leaders. We will see in the coming days if he is going to join us. He is back in England,” said assistant coach Seremaia Bai.

“In Fiji family is everything. We have been 15 weeks away from our families since we started this campaign so we make that this becomes our family. If one suffers, we all suffer. In Fiji we are kind of a family even if we are from different provinces. We become very close.