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Leinster beat Bath playing Matt O'Connor's unique brand of puke rugby. Still, one English team out, three to go. I will piss myself if no English sides make the semi finals.

And the people who are now in charge of English rugby, the clubs, make the RFU look like Mother Theresa.

Eng and France won't be looking to bid much before 2031 I would have thought. I hope I am wrong, but I am not sure there will even be a RWC by that stage.

I am not sure what the answer is for Aus, but I think you want to be very wary of picking lads who play outside Aus. If all the unions hold hard then the international game will retain a bit of leverage. The Welsh bringing in central contracts combined with Gatland's determination to favour...

World rugby can't enforce anything on European club rugby. They are now in control of the game because most of the French clubs are richer than most of the unions. Any attempt to control their activities will end up in court. International rugby is on the slippery slope to oblivion.

Unfortunately there is little the French or English Unions can now do about that because they have abdicated control of the club game in both countries, and now the whole of Europe, to the clubs. Many of us fought a hard and bitter campaign to keep the Unions in charge of the European game, and...

Apart from the stamp on Cole three years ago, I really can't remember much that Healy has done that is that cheap or dirty. Think it is a bit of a myth, myself

It was, fair play to Glasgow, it looks like you have booked one home semi final. As for Leinster, the sooner Matt O'Connor is sent packing the better. He was having a whinge before the game about the Ireland players being released so hopefully he is getting his excuses in early for the IRFU...

It is complete nonsense. Scotland were battered by a relentlessly accurate Irish performance: the Scots only got two scrum put ins. The Scots made 155 tackles at 87% compared to France 104 at 81%. It is sour grapes, sad to say.

Article in the Torygraph, I would put a link up but on phone. Richie, credit to him, is not blaming anyone else though.

Shame that some of the England players have felt the need to criticise the efforts of their fellow pros in Scotland and Italy. France made the grand total of 104 tackles with 81% success compared to Scotland's 155 at 87%.

If Lawes is deemed to be offside then I think he could get a couple of weeks because it makes the tackle illegal and, if he had been onside, it would have been late no question. I might be wrong on the Gridiron thing but I don't think I am imagining it. Will be interesting to see if anything...

No one in Munster batted an eyelid at that slanderous twat being whacked, but that aside it is not the same as the Lawes one which is right on the edge of acceptable, IMHO. Gridiron has a reasonable force clause, or at least used to. What is Lawes hoping to achieve, in rugby playing terms, by...

French are looking to site Lawes for his hit on Plisson. If you watch it back, he came from an offside position. But, even if everything is legal, it is not a great advertisement for the game to watch a big man smashing a small man quite obviously trying to inflict as much injury as possible. If...

It isn't a wind up. Welsh rugby will be much stronger for central contracts. People can call them dual contracts if it makes them feel better about them, but they are central contracts and are going to help keep the best Welsh players plying their trade in Wales. PRL only ever courted the...

Lee is going to be a hell of a loss if he doesn't make it back for the RWC.

Very fine margins between Wales and Ireland but we have a little bit more to work on than you lot given you lot play one way and one way alone. There is also the added factor that you are in a group with Eng and Aus, we have France and Italy who are looking nearly as bald as me.

A week too late for the Grand Slam but St Joe let up the clutch and we got a vision of what this Irish team can do. Back to back champions!!!!

Zebo dropped. Ridiculous decision from Schmidt. Surprised Schmidt didn't go the whole hog and drop POM and Murray. The super bloo media seems to think the Munster players were responsible for the uber bottle in Cardiff, no great surprise. Thank God sling it to the 'fat c**t' Reddan hasn't been...

Parisse out. Wales looking better by the hour.