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Every national head coach should be given the opportunity to choose his assistants. If the national union have enough faith to pick him then they should back the guy fully and let him bring in his own people. Some head coaches wont mind working with whoever is there already or going with who...

BoD had long over due surgery on his shoulder just before Christmas. He'd been playing with one shoulder for over a year. No one is really sure how good he'll be when he comes back but he'll definitely be in the mix for the squad and probably a starting spot. I'm sure after the 6Ns many will...

Henry would seem to have been the driving force behind their appointment according to comments he made at the time.

O'Brien's form has been patchy since the WC. If he's going to start for the Lions it would probably be at 6, but Ferris has been one of the form players this season in Europe and if his knee holds up he'll probably be the 6 for the Lions. There are probably 6-7 player competing for those 3 back...

Lancaster is recieving praise from Brian Ashton for how he's handled the England job. I like how Ashton is pretty much warning the RFU to do to Lancaster what they did to him i.e. drop him like a hot potato as soon as a shiny big name shows interest in the job. Have a lot of respect for Ashton...

de Villiers was/is a clown. Deans is a much better coach than him but shouldn't automatically be given the next WC. I look at this reshuffle as similar to MJ with England. He was given a chance to select his own coaching team on the understanding that any failure to meet targets were on his...

First off let me say that I'm not one to believe that purely because something has been around for 126 years is a good enough reason to keep it around. However if that institution is still relevant and important in the area steps should be taken to keep it going whether it's 126 years or 126...

The 10 channel is already an obvious place of attack against most teams. For Priestland this is exacerbated due to the sheer size of the rest of the Welsh backline. As Spooony said it will be obvious to other teams how much joy England got from targeting him. It's not just his responsibility...

One way to encourage more tries would be to make each try after the first worth increasingly more. So 5 points for 1st, 6 for 2nd, 7 for 3rd (all before conversion) etc. But it would probably be considered too complicated to sell the game to new markets. Also tries and penalties are a vicious...

From my point of view for the good of rugby I would rather see a much larger crowd in a half full stadium. But when attending a game I would much rather be in packed smaller ground. It's a small point and doesn't really matter in the overall context but for those that are reporting very round...

No matter what format you have there will always be someone who compains about it especially when it's a ring fenced competition. If the format was changed where you played each franchise once making 4 local derbies and 10 games against the 5 franchises from each of the other 2 nations you can...

It looks like Lamont broke his leg against France so he'll be out for a very long time. The guy is so unlucky with injuries feel really sorry for him. On other injuries from yesterday Blair went off with a dead leg so he'll be fine for Scotland's next game. Laidlaw is being reported as...

Another brave Scotland loss but a loss is a loss. The effort Scotland put into the first half seemed to take it's toll as they tired in the seconds half. France not very impressive but they didn't have to be. When it got to the final minute and Scotland had to go from their own 22 I couldn't...

France's tactic of commiting as few bodies to the ruck s possible was exploited there by Scotland for the Jones try but France hit right back with a try from Medard. 20-17 France and this has been very entertaining.

Half time Scotland 10 France 10. Scotland start briliantly with a try from Hogg who's been cutting the French to shreds. Scotland were 10-0 up until Fofana scored for France. By the time the game restarted both Lamont and Blair were off with injuries. The loss of Blair who was running the show...

Congatulations to Wales on the triple crown. Came back really well against England and it was an excellent winning try from Williams. Over the 3 games it was well deserved. England will probably feel hard done by in the last few minutes. North probably should have gone to the bin for knocking...

England up 9-6 at half time against Wales. For the first 20 minutes Wales blew England away in everywhere except for where it counts most the scoreboard. After that both teams looked good when they got into the opposition 22 and traded penalties. England really put it up to Wales physically...

42-10 final score comfortable win and impressive second half from Ireland. There's plenty of potential for Ireland to improve and I'm still waiting for an 80 minute performance from the team. Playing well in one half wont beat France in Paris. I think there will be many calls for Reddan to...

Delighted Andrew Trimble got that try he's spent so long in the shadow of the other backs.

Commentators on Sky sports mentioned the knock on advantage, I think it's the same commentary feed as Fox. Couldn't see anything wrong with the scoring of the try.