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Yeah that's where he is world class. Running at the line.

Think you either need Genia with To'omua, or White with a different 10. Someone has to make the play out there

Possibly seeing why we have only seen To'omua start a half dozen times at 10 here

Currently poring with rain. Wallabies in the wet? Load up on under 28 points

What do we reckon the two other selectors are using?

It's all in there in the tournament rules if you want to look it up https://www.rugbyworldcup.com/tournament-rules

They've got to come up with a policy that applies to all games in the group stages though. It's unlucky (really unlucky!) that it's these games that have been affected but it could easily have been the Scotland v Russia game (say). There's only 4 days between that game and the Japan game. How...

Any of the current team not eligible for another side if they so chose?

Alan Gilpin, who is the tournament director, answered some questions in the press conference

Posted in the match thread, but world rugby has two different situations in which the consider a red card - The player is lifted and then forced or ‘speared’ into the ground (red card offence) - The lifted player is dropped to the ground from a height with no regard to the player’s safety (red...

World rugby have two seperate definitions of a red card in that situation, the first is if the upper body is driven into the ground, the second is if the player is dropped from height without care for the players safety. So there is still room for a citing if they want to go down that path

Fiji get a penalty try in the 52 minute for Wales collapsing their driving maul. No yellow card (which incidentally would have put Wales down to 13) Do refs have a choice here?

Watched the replay on that one last night and in the end didn't mind that call. The problem for Samoa wasn't just the feed, it's that they didn't hook, or even pretend to hook. It was a really obvious egregious crooked feed too. The ref lectured both teams afterwards about the requirements to...

Might be the last time we see Poey with the number 7 on his back. Fun fact, the Wallabies have won 3 times with Pocock starting at 7 since 2012

Red card for stupidity as well as foul play

Is it as simple as they don't want to play the most penalised prop in Super Rugby against the Georgian scrummagers?

It's pretty interesting how many of this team have been unavailable for much of the leadup/last couple of years due to injury or ineligibility. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 by my count. Chuck in 22 as well I wonder how much of the lack of cohesion/frustration for fans is because these players just...

The long form decision contains this fairly laughable statement

Given his scrum issues this year, not sure Georgia would be my first choice game for TT. Having said that, were the Georgians resting players against Fiji? The Fijian scrum seemed to deal with them relatively easily. Is it still the threat it's perceived as?