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To be fair, that was an absolute ripper of a sidestep from JdV - and he's done that to some pretty quality defenders over the years. So generally I agree with your last sentence.

Dagg actually does apparently - I'm certain I read somewhere that he has a history in the position. Obviously I'm not really suggesting he'd play there for the Blacks, but it's a little bit of pseudo-trivia.

If Pocock plays like that again, Australia by 10. If Cooper plays like that again, New Zealand by 20. If they both play like that again, my head will explode from the stress.

Same as it always is, probably. It's not just that the city's windy, it's that the stadium funnels it all over the place.

Woah, that's a bit rough.

Well we've seen the last of the Irish golden generation (I think?): O'Driscoll, O'Connell and O'Gara. Fine servants all, the game will be worse off without them.

This is so frustrating. It's not worth blowing the incident out of proportion, but it's selfish to do this in a week when half our outside backs are injured and when the team is under pressure from the Carter/McCaw situations. Cory Jane. Great fend, but what an idiot.

I've heard similar chat. Wouldn't be surprised to see him a late scratching for Thompson, and if that happens then he'll be out for good. They won't replace him in the squad though, he'll need to stay around. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh shit.

And now you've got to go South Africa, New Zealand and a lucky-dip six nations side. Not a bad precedent.

How did I say anything remotely like 'pity the poor Samoans'? I was saying I have more respect for a team that gets its niggle in by going after the biggest forward, than I do for one that gets its niggle in by going after the smallest back. The Samoans went after some of the toughest players on...

I agree with the most of the early posts - England seem to be finding ways to win. The one doubt I have is that the French might do what the Boks seemed to do immediately post-Jake-White, by rallying around the senior players, ignoring the coach, and pulling out a ripper of a performance...

I'm sure they would have - dumb question on my part.

Do they have two hookers left?

Right, I thought that's what you were getting at. The title 'SC' was just a replacement of the old 'QC (Quade Cooper)'; the name changed for new appointees in NSW in 1993. Apparently (I only found this out when I looked it up just now) QCs were appointed by the Governor in council, who I suppose is a...

Yeah that guy's a freak. Wish he could pull off a forward defence though.

The bit that offends me most is the '2' in place of 'to'. God I hate that.

Friday apparently, I think all the teams are being named on Friday..

May as well have been, he was negated all game then got kneed in the face. Good Captain's knock.

I think an important qualification on the virtue of 'niggle' is that it can't just be forwards beating up on backs at the bottom of a ruck. Maybe the Samoans went a bit over the top, but at least they were targetting the big boys.

I'm sure he meant that as a joke; but, regardless, I want to stress that I'm no private-school fanboy. Loads of them are knobs, and some of them probably do wank in groups, but I also love the fact that a career in Australian rugby union isn't mutually exclusive with going to uni, and I think...