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and nonu will run right through it. biggest wallaby weaknesses are McCabe with an injured shoulder, possibly no kurtley or an under strength kurtley and the possibility of a line out operating like it did a week ago. Quietly confident that Cruden is going to play fantastic.

Did tighthead v loosehead or 4 v 5. was debating when to switch to number v number. chose to do it at 6 onwards. either way you've got one wallaby lock winning and one ab lock! I'm neutral. cheering for good rugby.

Absolutely agree. just a fun way to analyse the game on paper. on paper the ABs should win the man to man match ups. it'll depend how the backs and forwards link up and how each unit plays within itself. will be fantastic as a contest all round.

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they've got plenty of stadiums http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_football_stadiums_in_Argentina

I think that is where it will end up going. the IRB will compromise between giving it to a 'new nation' and a traditional country. Italy fits the bill. They could give a game or two to spain/france.

yes and thats affected his form, as it would anyone. but its still affected his form. hence i give the advantage to slipper based on his super 15 form. if he can get back to that, he'll be better. otherwise its even.

Didn't even see Afoa there. Probably near even, though advantage to slipper, just based on his super 15 form, that said, the little we've seen of him this cup, he hasn't looked near his super rugby form Ellis and Burgess. Depends which burgess shows up! He's patchy. His service is certainly no...

There's a plethora of large grass stadiums in the U.S. Probably more grass than turf. The skydome in toronto is bigger, but possibly the worst stadium in the world and on synthetic. in canada, the two stadiums that spring to mind are BMO in Toronto (25,000 can be expanded up to 35,000) and...

weather now looking good both days.

Wales 25 - France 23 NZ 28- Aus 23

Being from Canada as I am, they would be pushing their luck with the winter cold. If they pushed the tournament back till October/November, they better have a few indoor stadiums amongst them. November is flirting with cold and snow. I think we'll see the following bids emerge for 2023...

also - do not understand sharpe not starting let alone being on the bench. on that note. not bothering to do a bench matchup, but based on who's named advantage to the all blacks everywhere but berrick barnes v donald. Similar to last week and the wallabies scraped through. I don't think...

Player v Player analysis for my money: Woodcock v Alexander - Barely giving it to Woodcock based on experience and his increasing form throughout the tournament Moore v Mealamu - Advantage Moore. He's been fantastic all year. Owens v Kepu - Owens. Improving all tournament and sekope's ankle...

Looks like there is a fair bucket load of rain forecast for Sunday afternoon - evening in Auckland. Whilst occasional light showers on Saturday for the game. Safe to say you can expect QC (Quade Cooper) to get a lot of pressure high balls sent his direction in this wet.

Why would they not just stick with the NZ feed or the fox sports commentary as they've done throughout the cup. Gregan is about as animated as a blade of grass. Andrew Slack needs to sit up straight. I don't know Ray Hadley but i'll take the word of everyone who has commented on him...

it was more the style of play they played and i get the feeling having johnny available to play at 10, bolstered johnson's confidence in playing that style of game. didn't work and they were massively lucky to top that pool and in fact get out of the pool. they should've lost two games!

their top up international wages would come from the IRB and Argentine rugby. the amount that the super rugby team would actually be paying them would be minimal. probably an average of $80k per player per year. I am sure with argies in the tri nations plus argi participation in super 15 the...

can't see horne coming in except maybe on the bench Faainga was solid when he came on and has game time recently. Horne is a couple weeks out of action. Besides that, if i was a coach, given how often he gets injured i wouldn't want to risk him starting and buggering himself again.

I think the better solution would be to simply increase the quota of allowable foreign players to say 4 per squad and require that at least two of them go to argentinians - that's 30 argentinians playing super rugby. they can get their base super 15 salaries and with the probably reasonably...