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No, this is what they live for. :fishing

Rocky needs a 'rest'.

That's rather condescending, don't you think?

Erm... who are you disciplining here? If me, then I was merely satirising Gnostic posting a complete player and referee analysis on a 3-2-1 thread.

Self indulgence 3

Then he should be all knees.

But in this case, as far as I know, he's been cleared to play.

I'm not sure what that means. If he's cleared to play, he's cleared to play. The medical report may never be printed in the newspapers. Medicos can certainly make a financial loss if they get the diagnosis wrong and clear him to play, since they are professionally liable. You're quite right...

If Taf is on the bench, it could well happen.

He's played a bit at 8. I remember a junior world cup final where he scored a stunning swerving try.

Here's a thing. England has the wood on us. France has the wood on England. We have to beat New Zealand to win the thing. So: throw the game to Ireland in the group! We come second, play and beat New Zealand in the knockouts, France demolishes England, we play France in the final! Bon, non?

Where can I buy some of these white lines? :p

We shall see about that! :cool:

That wasn't my point. My point is that we shouldn't go in expecting to lose every game because 'history says we should'. Firstly it doesn't, and secondly if we think that then we will.

I would be the last to condone violence but THAT WAS AWESOME!

The most important lesson of the statistics is we should be beating them a lot more often than the recent results suggest.

Exactly. Usually, medicos err on the side of caution. It's not our role as lay observers to add an extra dollop of caution. A career is a big thing to lose unnecessarily. If team doctors are acting unethically then that's another matter.

Kiwis are a Balkanised nation when it comes to coaches. They are as divided on Deans as we are. They are as divided on Henry and the cartel as we were on Connolly and Eddie Jones.

40-34 Wallabies

An element of the All Blacks aura is that any kind of confidence against them is disrespectful. Opponents buy into this, even if only subconsciously, and so are at a disadvantage. I think that many Kiwi supporters buy into it as well, and so the confidence being displayed by our players at the...