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I know it's the first game and all, but the Reds looked poorly drilled. They were atrocious at securing their own ball, and the tight 5 absolutely need to wear that. As an aside, after watching all the kiwi teams this week, they are absolutely targeting the breakdown. They'll flood a breakdown...

I don't get it. The dude says he's a kiwi, but then bangs on about how shit we're going to be under Eddie. You'd think that if Eddie was going to be such a disaster to us, he'd just sit back and watch it unfold. Unless he's sour about one of his brethren copping the axe for Eddie.

I don't anyone was sure. After re-watching it a number of times, I can see how it was awarded a try, but I can also see why the French would be annoyed by the call.

I'm struggling with that try call as well.

Halfpenny didn't play and Williams looked ok in spurts, but I do agree with your overall point. North in particular looked well off the pace I reckon. Hard to see them getting rid of Gatland when he's just been reappointed as coach. It was a daft decision to begin with though.

Wales are a complete mess and Ireland were rarely troubled. The Irish seemed to just cruise through the game. Liam Williams had a few good attacking runs, but he was poorly supported and was often isolated. Caelan Doris was immense for the Irish and was instrumental in snuffing out a few Welsh...

I saw that. I thought he'd had a potential concussion as well, as the ref blew it up pretty quick. In the end it looked like he'd hurt his leg, although it's possible he feigned a leg injury to avoid being taken off for a HIA, who knows.

Isn't Giteau originally a Queanbeyan boy?

I was about to mention Idi also. Did he get removed from Crim XV?

That's a shame about Matt Philip if that's the case.

No, Nuci is the week after next, after Link gets a turn.

He's certainly generated a buzz we haven't seen for a long time.

I can't believe Eddie hasn't selected Owen Finegan in his world cup squad. Madness I tell you.

It's been a very busy January for rugby, and a ball is yet to be kicked!

While I've never been a massive Eddie Jones fan, I agree with you on this one Reg. Despite my tongue in cheek comments earlier about Eddie and props, it does seem like he has evolved his understanding of the game. I read an interview with Eddie recently (link) where he talks about how the...

This is true Reg, but I'd prefer to ignore recent history thank you.

Bloody hell, Eddie Jones! That's certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons. I'd be worried if I was a front row forward...

He might be dealing with the totality of the strength and conditioning, the medical, the rugby side of things, strategy, the review, preview of the game itself and also the individuals.