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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.......

ABs rightful favourites.

Team of the Tournament: 1. Marcos Ayerza (ARG) 2. Agustin Creevy (ARG) 3. Sekope Kepu (AUS) 4. Kane Douglas (AUS) 5. Sam Whitelock (NZL) 6. Schalk Burger (RSA) 7. Francois Louw (RSA) 8. David Pocock (AUS) 9. Conor Murray (IRE) 10. Nicolas Sanchez (ARG) 11. Juan Imhoff (ARG) 12. Wesley Fofana...

The Wallabies should be proud of making the final. It will be a step too far coming up against an ABs side who can go up another gear, but it doesn't mean I can't appreciate what an achievement the Wallabies' RWC run has been. Will be great to see McCaw, Nonu, Smith, Mealamu, Kaino finish on a...

Ditto for the ABs. Their persistence with grubbers in behind the Bokke defence seemed like a practice run for the rush defence employed by the Wallabies.

Just being skittish and realistic about our chances. I expect us to not be on the right side of the refereeing Saturday night.

New Zealand by 40

3. Scott Michael Fardy 2. Pocock* 1. Douglas *Give him the WR (World Rugby) 2015 player of the year award already.

Faaaark off....... more like the Farcock.

Toby Smith looked really good when he came on. Carried hard and scrummaged strongly

A myth propagated by Kiwis in the Auckland Bledisloes in 2013 and 2014.

You know the NH camera feed operators have it in for you when they show a hard tackle (e.g. Pocock's on Hernandez) in about 5 different slow-mo angles.

Why don't we take out all the Wallabies tries scored. We can deduce that the Wallabies are lucky to be behind by 9

Nothing in it. McCaw ran towards the ruck in the pursuit of the ball and the elbow/contact was incidental. The ball was initially in Louw's possession/general vicinity when he approached - albeit a second too late - and rather than break stride, McCaw ran all the way around the ruck to effect a...

People are underestimating the Argies' chances. Citing the RC game earlier is not that great of an indicator given they played a new centre pairing and Camacho. Even then, you have to remember that it was relatively even for 50-60 minutes and the last 5-10 minutes flattered us. Their attack...

Getting worried about the breakdown and scrum. If Figallo and Herrera are both picked at tighthead, Slipper and Smith are going to be in for a long night. Creevy and Pocock are key men for the fortunes of either team, and both are under an injury cloud.

All Blacks by 40. ABs will be too good. World champions in waiting.

It's all semantics though. Australia won. However I would not have been too perturbed if Scotland had won considering how well they played. We certainly did not make it easy for ourselves, and that was compounded by the Scottish pressure. Australia will need to improve immeasurably to...

Trust Qwerty to deride Slipper for his blunder but remain silent on Foley leaving at least 11 points on the field whilst also giving 7 to Scotland.

What I presume people mean when they say they were "gifted tries" was that they were the exploitation of poor Australian decision-making when it came to exits from their 22; i.e. not manufactured from attacking pressure.