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How is Owens regarded in France Relance? I think the Irish would generally be perfectly happy with him, I think he is the best ref in the business along with Garces. It is going to be a huge game on the 11th. I suspect NZ will be hoping for a France win anyway.

Easy to forget, of course, that so many of the Aussie players are comfortable playing in different positions. I still think Cheika will want to be sure of topping the group to avoid NZ and (probably) SA. Were SA to lose to Scotland, it could be that the Wales V Aus game could be played between...

Do you think Cheika would rest players against Wales? Can't see it with a team trying to build momentum for the QF.

Fortunately they have invested some of the money in central contracts.

England are slow to roll away because Barnes, Doyle and the other English refs leave them to get away with lying all over the tackle week in week out in their dumb brainless league. I don't know if they have worked it out yet, but at international level they are not going to be reffed by English...

I didn't realise they were missing the biter Matawalu as well as the giant winger.

If Gatty had cared a bit more when the seedings were made for this RWC, Wales wouldn't have found themselves in such a tough group.

Now Wales has central contracts everyone is pulling in the same direction. Not sure what will happen in Orcland if they fail to make the QF. Fingers crossed we get to find out!!!!

He has full strength or the equivalent of a third team. Win on Thursday, trust that Aus should do the business against England and the Wale are through to a very winnable QF whether it is BT Scotland or SA.

Well everyone will know where they stand before the game kicks off.

England have a few fundamental problems, one of which is that the RFU has ceded way too much power to the arseholes who own the 14 English clubs that now run the game in England. Carling was always one of the biggest cheerleaders for these pricks, ready to condemn the 'old farts' who ran the...

You don't, the rest of us would find it first class entertainment!?!?

I think North has to stay on the wing. He actually doesn't look the sharpest, IMHO. Probably over playing in the rubbish English league has left a mark. The sooner he gets back to Llanelli on one of Roger's groundbreaking central contracts, the better for him and the Wale. Roger must have been...

Wot no Chavin?

"Try saving tackle"? Reckless is reckless even when it is two foot behind the try line. But I don't really care, Carter should only have received a warning/ yellow card anyway, not a ban; at least people are now acknowledging that something can be reckless, even if it isn't deliberate, and...

Be careful what you wish for, Launchbury and Parling is a formidable, potential combination. Lancaster will probably start Kruis. Can't have too many Saracens in the side.

Which was something I suggested after the NZ V Argentina game. I am probably risking a ban from the site at this stage.

Well, my oh my, suddenly Green and Gold has developed an interest in reckless kicks to the head!?!? And all the incidents in the article occurred in the NH. But, sure, iron fists Carter concussed a man with his hand and no foot was involved. Foreshortening????

He is a big loss but I think Aus would have handled him easy enough.

Morgan is a far superior player to puffin Billy the Graham Hick of rugby. The problem with Morgan is he takes a run of games to get fit and, because of injury he hasn't had that. Easter is not international quality IMHO. I can't see how England are shady favouritism. Australia are a racing...