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Ireland isn't on the World Series Tour but I do believe we will be entering mens and womens teams at the repercharge stage. However I'd say no matter what kind of team we put together we'll be the whipping boys!

Pretty sure another batch went on sale at the same time as the test match tickets.

Both games are in full on youtube or else you could try acrossthetasman.com

What exactly is a "path forward"? Is that they've a deal agreed in principle and they are waiting on ARU approval? My corporate lingo knowledge needs some brushing up I think!

Whatever happens I'll be blaming Sam Warburton

I was working on the assumption that Horne is leaving as was touched on above. It would be great if he stayed given the form that he is in, and it would give us a lot of depth and variety in the back line.

As far as I know defending Olympic champions don't automatically qualify in any sport. Every Olympic entrant has to qualify or meet minimum qualification times. Happy to be corrected on that one though!

Its not a bad problem for Michael Cheika to have in fairness, I'd wager there are a lot of coaches in the world who'd want the problem of how to fit KB (Kurtley Beale) into their backline. At the moment I'd have him at 10 and Foley at 12, I think we'd see some really exciting attacking play from that...

Doug Howlett is a class act one of the all time greats, father time has just caught up on him. I'll remember how himself, Tipoki and Mafi played some great stuff for Munster in the 2008/09 season. I hope he gets involved with coaching the outside backs in Ireland, every single winger we have...

The Qualifying process is:

Hartley is always decent when his team are on top and everything is going well. Even gets a chirp at the opposition in now and again. Its when his team need their captain to stand and be counted he is no where to be seen, he's a flat track bully if there ever was one.

Tragic news for him, thoughts and prayers go out to the family.

Taylor Swift tickets? Or should we not ask :D

Its something I've noticed since coming to Australia, the media reports that games are sold out then on TV I see empty blocks of seats. Perhaps in this situation we should be asking why the media didn't do 10 minutes research and they'd have probably found out that more tickets were going to go...

Rowntrees championing of Vunipola and Stevens looks more and more ridiculous every day, as does the decision to have Owen Farrell as the back up 10. Jonny Sexton is going to be copping a lot from the Aussie packs, if he goes down its 3 nil Wallabies in the test series. Leinster have struggled...

I'd have been pissed off if Leinster had lost, would be disappointed in SOB if he had elected not to play but I'd say it was Schmidt's call to rest him. You'd think the national coach would be selfish and want his players to rest up though!

Was just about to post that. Any ideas on who the new sponsor might be?

The problem with Walsh is that he makes every game The Steve Walsh Show featuring a rugby game. The good referees you don't notice but the likes of Poite, Walsh, Barnes etc feel the need to take centre stage at every available opportunity, this turns the game into a stop start affair which ruins...

Full list, just pulled straight from Wikipedia: Week 1 2 November 2013 England v Australia Twickenham, London[2] Week 2 9 November 2013 14:30 GMT (UTC+0) Scotland v Japan TBA 9 November 2013 17:30 GMT (UTC+0) Wales v South Africa Millennium Stadium, Cardiff[3] 9 November...

SOB and BOD are the only injuries concerns at the moment, although Joe Schmidt did admit that if it wasn't a Lions year SOB would have played against Glasgow. Withdrawing O'Driscoll was a precaution and he should be fit for Fridays game against Stade Francais.