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It's a shame that Fiji have lost both their first choice wingers but if there's one position where Fiji have no problems with depth it's on the wing. They've just added Nagusa to the squad and he is another world class winger. How Volavola performs is key for them really. He needs to move...

Yeah I would love to see that. You could even just have an extended European Championship (say 12 teams) and a Rest of the world / Continental Championship. The latter could be 12 or 16 teams - 4 Rugby Championship teams, 6 PNC (Pacific Nations Cup) plus the likes of Uruguay, Chile, Hong Kong, Korea, Namibia and...

One other thing about this game. Could we get the Canadian hooker to teach ours how to hook the ball?

I think they're a confidence team. If they score an early try or two they'll be a different side. Even in this match they were starting to get on top a bit and look good with the ball before that intercept try. They just don't seem to be well coached at the moment. Lack of discipline and...

I still think they'll have a good chance of beating Scotland. But I hope Japan beats them.

What an injustice. Abysmal officiating. Canada should have won anyway, but it's just a disgrace.

Canada need to get as much ball to Van der Merwe as possible

Such a stupid penalty to give away just on half time. Get the ball out of your 22 Canada! Italy's try also came as a result of some terrible defence by Canada's 7. They're a couple of stupid moments away from leading this comfortably. But I love Canada's tactics at the scrum and lineout...

http://www.news.com.au/sport/breaking-news/rugby-world-cup-uruguay-amateur-leandro-leivas-ready-to-face-wallabies/story-fnect155-1227544668227 I have to admit, while my biggest hope for this game is that none of our players get injured and that we win by 60+, I would quite like to see Uruguay...

That's great! No doubt the awareness of the 2019 World Cup will have increased too. It's a pity Scotland ran away with it in the end and that Japan got treated so harshly by the referee. Hopefully a lot of those 20 million will back up for the Samoa match.

Well another ref might have given the penalty to Georgia. I think he was alright at first but by the end wasn't supporting his body weight. I think the card could be justified but it was harsh and there was no consistency. When Georgia were hot on attack and Argentina infringed cynically...

Argentina have been good in this second half but the ref has done Georgia no favours at all. Pretty harsh yellow card against Georgia, which ends up being the crucial decision of the game, and then none for Argentina when the situation's reversed.

It's not completely smooth but you'd just have the best four 3rd place getters go through. Based on points in the pools. You can't have a perfect format unless you have 16 or 32 teams. The junior world cup for example has 12 teams - 3 pools of 4, and the best 2nd place getter makes the...

Just gotta hope none of the props pick up a knock that would rule them out of the England game. Gotta think it's possible Slipper won't be right for that one. It'd be a disaster to have say both Slipper and Sio out for the England game and one of them having to be replaced in the squad - even if...

Not with 6 groups of 4 teams and a round of 16. You'd just have more games during the week in the pool stage. But the two finalists would play the same number of games as they do now. A 32 team tournament (8 pools of 4), which should hopefully be the ultimate aim, would take the same amount of...

The problem would be the length of the tournament. It's very unlikely to increase. That format would need an extra 1-2 weeks.

I think the tournament will always be run over 6 weeks like it is now. Can't see it being extended by a week, especially given the growing power of European clubs. 6 team pools would mean you'd need an extra week - that or you'd consistently have 5 day turnarounds for everyone, which means teams...

I doubt Quirk will be the last, or the best of their foreign signings. From the JRFU's perspective it may be better to have a few of their players in other super rugby teams. That means more Japanese Super Rugby players in total and more depth for the national team leading into the 2019 World...

I don't think they'll win by 100+ but I wouldn't be surprised if they do. The All Blacks put 50+ on tier 1 teams from time to time and Namibia are a long way from being a tier 1 team. They'd likely get well beaten by most of the tier 2 sides. Can't be sure about that though. Their level at the...

Yeah fair enough. I think (with the exception of Russia) that those teams are not currently close enough to the level of Namibia or Uruguay so it shows that we're not quite ready for 24 teams. I know Namibia only just qualified out of Africa last year but with their full strength team this year...