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No I understood what you meant - I was just pointing out that the club's move is probably going to result in him not making the RWC squad. Which seems to be the whole reason he came over.

I'd have Kuridrani in there over Le Roux, and the overall gong should go to Vermeulen with Brodie coming in as a close second.

The ITM cup is much bigger out of the cities in New Zealand (see e.g. Taranaki losing its shit this year). There might be something to be learned from that.

He's got buckley's chance of cracking the English side in the back-row. If he does it he must have earned it.

Think Burgess is going to eventually slot in for you guys? I've never been too impressed by either Eastmond or Twelvetrees. It's the weakest in the side at the moment.

That would be huge.

What about AFL?

Any more of them in the production line?

Maybe we should stop this particular argument here.

Sounds painful.

To put that in perspective: 4.34 million people in Australia watched the 2003 rugby world cup final. I knew the US was huge, but that's just a bit silly.

Jesus - that seems pretty decent considering the lack of exposure. Just a casual five and half million.

Mate even a broken clock is right twice a day, right?

They lost another centre overnight - starting to get pretty thin in an area of strength for the Wallabies. But yeah, it's a coin toss.

Great result for Ireland. Seriously, this is a very good team.

Fair - and obviously I don't mean it as a slight on the Boks.

Their team is pretty similar to the one that rolled Wales. The big difference is in the backline, where they've replaced two good wingers with two probably better wingers, and two good centres with two relative newbies (I'm a huge fan of Payne though, really good player) then there are two...

I'm tipping the Irish here. I'm no close follower of northern rugby, but I watched them beat Wales earlier in the year and I still think it's the best performance of any side I've seen in the last 12 months. Just rock solid. If they can play like that again they'll beat anyone. The Boks are...

I don't think AFL has worse intentions than anyone else, they're just better at putting it into practice. No code can claim to be particularly charitable to the others. Take a look at the way League and Union have treated each other over the years (Player raids against amateur rugby through the...

This is George Bush playing rugby for Yale. The old 'swinging arm to the back of the head/punch to the face' combo. Flawless technique.