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Diggers looking sharp again this week. Wales have been stopping him early but it's going to be very interesting when he does slip a tackle.

Excellent start from Wales. Much more like the intensity I expected from them last week. Game on.

Although the quality of singers of national anthems are pretty bad, I guess the X-Factor type singers have to do something when they realise they not actually the next Gaga, Madonna. But I think NZ purposely pick the worst singer they can find to sing the anthem of the opposition. *Tongue firmly...

No time to dwell on our heart breaking defeat to the AB, really excited for this game. I love test rugby!

First off let me say I'm under no illusions that Ireland are a better team than the AB, but tonight we were better than them. Should have won that game. Well done to NZ for pulling the win out at the end but they were hanging on for a lot of the 2nd 40. Great performance from a lot of Irish...

Good, not great first half from us. Started really well and the signal we were up for it was when we stopped Read going over in the corner early on. Last week that would have been a try. We showed good patience for our try and backed it up well by winning a pen to stretch to 10-0. NZ have come...

I've always seen players Like Hook and AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) as barometers of the quality of their respective national sides. They're versatile quality players and generally find their way into the starting line up somewhere. So those occasions when they are on the bench speaks of a team with top quality...

Wales have always been my 2nd team from the NH, so if we weren't going to win the 6Ns I always hoped it would be Wales. The fans are great, very friendly, love to sing, create a great atmosphere and are very like we Irish. I've been at the Aviva/Landsdowne for many exciting and enjoyable games...

My big one would be fix the scrum. Other than that I wouldn't make any changes. I enjoy a lot of sports but I have no desire to see rugby be changed to be more like any other sport, rugby is my favourite for the simple reason that it is in fact the most like rugby. However with regard to...

New front page looks excellent, great work! Just one thing I noticed the results in the "Latest Results" section aren't very up to date. Could be just an admin thing in that they just haven't been updated. But the latest result on there is the U20 WC Aus v Sco. Also when you click the heading...

Deans tenure since the WC, and well before for some Aus fans, reached the point where whatever he did in the future was never going to be good enough to win them over. If Aus fail to win the rugby championship I would expect Deans to go and even if they manage to retain it there will be many...

The usual political and financial arguments are brewing again about the renewal of the HEC agreement in 2014 and English and French clubs have made, their now customary, threat to pull out if they don't get their own way. Hope they don't end up spoiling what is a fantastic club competition.

Here's the England team for the 2nd test England: B Foden; C Ashton, J Joseph, M Tuilagi, D Strettle; T Flood, B Youngs; J Marler, D Hartley, D Cole, M Botha, G Parling, T Johnson, C Robshaw (capt), B Morgan. Replacements : L Mears, A Corbisiero, T Palmer, P Dowson, L Dickson, O Farrell, A...

Henry is behind McLaughlin and O'Mahony, would like to see him get some game time on the tour but it will only happen if there's an injury or Deccie makes wholesale changes, which he doesn't have a reputation for.

Glad that Wales went we Jones at eight instead of the rumoured ploy of switching Warburton to 8 and playing Tipuric at 7.

I think the Reds chances might actually be affected by the performance of the Wallabies as some of the Tahs players seem to be finding some form in gold. But whether the Tahs do them a favour and beat the Brumbies or end the Reds chances is anyone's guess.

Here's the Ireland team for the 2nd test. Disappointed that Reddan isn't starting as Murray was too slow in the first test. Ireland: R Kearney, F McFadden, B O'Driscoll [capt], G D'Arcy, A Trimble, J Sexton, C Murray; C Healy, R Best, M Ross; D Tuohy, D Ryan; K McLaughlin, S O'Brien, J...

Brown broke his thumb in the first test so he's out of the tour. Nick Abendanon, who is on holiday in SA, is called up as replacement. Smart piece of holiday planning there!

Williams has decided not to retire and is going to play for Mitsubishi Dynaboars in Japan on a 1 year contract.

Yeah sad for Faletau to suffer a broken bone, he'll be out for a bit. Delighted for Delve the call up is well deserved on his performances for the Rebels even though the call up probably wouldn't have happened had the tests been played anywhere else, with maybe the exception of NZ. That...