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Very happy with Ireland's performance today. The final scoreline of 46-24 flattered Argentina a little. Ireland best performance since 2009, 7 tries to 2 in the end. Gilroy had an excellent debut, Sexton finally produced his Leinster form in green, he looked so much better standing flat...

I think every player who reaches 100+ caps for their country should get a soccer style testimonial game where they, a charity of their choice or some split between the two get the profits from the game.

You can have the best contact system in the world and it will work great 95% of the time but when you get the combination of QC (Quade Cooper), his agent and the ARU there will be problem no matter what system is in place. It's impossible to design a perfect system as if someone wants to take issue with the...

Hopefully the freedom makes a difference to his game as it would be great to see the Lambie from S15 on the international stage. A lot of pundits up here have branded Lambie limited and of the usual SA flyhalf mould. What surprises me more than that is how little pundits/commentators watch...

Somewhat related to this is an idea I had to reward loyal fans. Obviously wouldn't work for this Lions tour but would be great to see something similar for the next Lions tour. Basically have a discount for those with season tickets (memberships in Aus?) for X number of consecutive years...

The English team in recent years, especially their back row, shows that having a big player base is not always a good thing. England have a wide selection of back row players who are all around the same level. This has led to them being based on form, a good thing in the opinion of many fans...

Australia looked really good against England, probably the best I've seen them this year. Hard to see Deans getting sacked while that performance is fresh in the memory. I was really impressed with the Ireland XV's performance against Fiji. Gilroy's 3rd try when he went the length of the field...

That's only in recent games and enforced through injury. I think most people would expect Deans to go back to his favourites once the injuries clear up. I know in certain positions (9 & 10) especially Aus have gone through every available option from S15. In this instance a new coach might be...

Was it just me or did anyone else notice that the scrum call in the weekends games, by many of the referees, has slowed down to the same level as the crouch touch pause engage? Some referees seem to be adding their own silent pause into the new sequence. In the NH club competition the whole...

Agree on this point. Whatever way you look at it a new coach is going to be of benefit to the Wallabies. When it's gotten to the point of pretty much everyone wondering when and not if he'll go not much can be gained from him staying on. It's certainly not impossible that he'll deliver a Lions...

I thought Ireland were terrible yesterday especially in the 2nd half. 1st half we weren't so bad and managed to eke out a lead but never really threaten the try line. There's still a lot of work to be done to get the back line firing. We should have use the 6Ns to bring players through this year...

There definitely needs to be a big push to protect the respect to the referee. I've never had a problem with fans or the media criticising a referee whether it's justified or not. But players and coaches are a different story. Sometimes a referee will have a really poor game and criticism is...

increasing the EPS to accompany this move shouldn't just be likely it's essential for it to succeed. if you stick with the same numbers as presently in the Aus franchise squads then it just shifts the injury problem from established test players who'll play less games to younger players who'll...

To me it certainly makes more sense to decide who's going to take the kicks before the team is finalised. So often Australia have picked the team first then decided who'll take them and ended up with the 50% guy. As you say a team is better when they can punish the opposition for conceding...

That Gloucester v Leicester game really was something to watch. I really thought that Leicester were going to pull it off and down through the years, more often than not, they find a way to get the score to win in these situations. Atmosphere was fantastic, been in a few crowds like that at...

Nice piece of commentary on the Dragons v Ulster game about John Afoa who'd just come on as a replacement and threw a beautiful floated pass. "he has the makings of 2 good centres"

Spain and some eastern European countries have teams that compete in the Amlin Challenge Cup. Those nations you mention should be able to support at least 1 team at a Pro12 - 2 level. They would have to take a long term view but it's definitely possible to build up a league with some lower Tier...

Agree with WorkingClassRugger on both the Borders and third Italian team. Both the Scottish and Italian Unions need to get their existing teams to be self supporting before they think of going to 3 teams. Italy especially need to see how Zebre go. Treviso have really come on leaps and bounds...

Interesting piece of information there Lee certainly doesn't make sense not to adopt it next year when that's the way the game is eventually going. On a side note that hopefully doesn't sideline the thread too much, what are your thought on the various trials of the new laws currently ongoing...

There's a pretty good chance of him making the Scotland squad for the 6Ns. During the upcoming test window he'll be playing for Glasgow in the Pro12. Glasgow's next Heineken Cup game is on December 7th and he'll probably be a confirmed starter by then. Glasgow are effectively out of the...