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great tackle from Beale to save that try.

Scotland's team to play Ireland: Scotland : 15-Hogg, 14-Jones, 13-De Luca, 12-Morrison, 11-Lamont, 10-Laidlaw, 9-Blair; 1-Jacobsen, 2-Ford, 3-Cross, 4-Gray, 5-Hamilton, 6-Barclay, 7-Rennie, 8-Denton Replacements: 16-Lawson, 17-Murray, 18-Kellock, 19-Vernon, 20-Cusiter, 21-Jackson, 22-Evans

Change to the Ireland team announced. O'Brien has a foot infection so he's out and O'Mahony starts. Shane Jennings comes into the squad on the bench.

Unchanged England team for France: England: Ben Foden; Chris Ashton, Manu Tuilagi, Brad Barritt, David Strettle; Owen Farrell, Lee Dickson; Alex Corbisiero, Dylan Hartley, Dan Cole; Mouritz Botha, Geoff Parling; Tom Croft, Chris Robshaw, Ben Morgan. Replacements: Rob Webber, Matt Stevens...

Here's the full Ireland team, as predicted only the enforced changes. Ireland: Rob Kearney; Tommy Bowe, Keith Earls, Gordon D'Arcy, Andrew Trimble; Jonathan Sexton, Eoin Reddan; Cian Healy, Rory Best (capt), Mike Ross; Donncha O'Callaghan, Donnacha Ryan; Stephen Ferris, Sean O'Brien, Jamie...

Rory Best passed fit so he's Captain for Ireland v Scotland. Glad he's good to go as he's the standout hooker in Ireland currently and his work around the field is phonominal. Been a bit wayward with his throwing lately but none of the back ups are consistently accurate. He'll give good...

Ross Ford has come out in support of Andy Robinson. In Rugby a vote of confidence from the payers actually means something unlike in soccer where it's a mechanism to muddy the waters when the players stab the coach in the back. I hope Robinson keeps his job as he's made progress with Scotland...

According to what's coming out of the UK media the job is White's if he wants it and White seems pretty interested. Not a done deal but probably a deal in principle at this stage.

It seems these days as long as you haven't murdered anyone on the field of play you're deemed to have a good diciplinary record and are therefore up for a reduction in your ban. Delon Armitage is the perfect example. He was banned 4 times last year alone but still managed to get reductions for...

Paul O'Connell and Connor Murray are out of the rest of the 6Ns. POC will be out for 6 weeks with medial ligament damager and Murry for 3 with bruised knee joint. Rory Best is the obvious candidate for captain. Would expect Ryan and Reddan to come into the starting 15. Tomas O'Leary and Mike...

I see Danny Care's been an idiot again. Coulld be a real waste of talent unless someone gets a hold of him and tell him to cop on. As he's English I'm sure there wont be much sympathy.

Yes I said when we were talking about the squad on here before the 6Ns started that I hoped Zebo would get a go against either Italy or Scotland. I would also like to see Donnacha Ryan and Peter O'Mahony get starts in the pack and McFadden in the centres with Earls. Then unleash O'Brien from the...

A draw 17-17 but it feel like a defeat after that effort. Still plenty of improvements to make for Ireland and not much new talent brought through. Still an excellent game and very exciting.

I was calling for D'Arcy to go before the 6Ns squad was annouced. Would have like to have seen an Earls McaFadden midfield but Deccie went with D'Arcy for continuity with BOD out.

Have to say this now as my opinion of Ireland performance may be coloured if we lose. How good has Rob Kearney been today? Immense.

France 6 Ireland 17 at half time. 2 tries from Bowe. The First a direct result of Ireland tactic to rush up in defence leading to an intercept try. The 2nd getting the ball out wide early Earls putting Bowe in space on the flank and a beautiful chip and gather over Poitrenaud. France have the...

How can you be too loud at a rugby game? I'm a very quiet person most of the time, but I shout and sing my head off at the rugby. Also how can you hear an individual fan at a game? Here even sitting beside each other we have to shout or lip read to say something to each other most of the time...

When I read about Richie helping out I got a mental image of people sitting around a table with Otago on one side and the council plus liquidator on the other. Then Richie sneaking over to the wrong side and signing agreements when the liquidator wasn't looking. On a serious note if they do...

Last year Refs were hot on not releasing the ball when tackled and the tackler releasing the tackled player before trying to strip the ball. This year from what I've see in the 6Ns and S15 rolling away, sealing off and last feet are among the hot topics for Refs.

Don't care who the players involved are, IF they have enough evidence to prove gouging then 10 weeks is the minimum someone should get. Gouging has no place in rugby.