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Slow start from Scots continues as Samoa take the early lead. 3-0 after 5.

Namibia, Zimbabwe and Kenya were all tied on 10 points (2 wins and 2 bonus points) in the African Qualifying. In the end, it came down to who beat up Madagascar the most. I don't think either of the other 2 would have disgraced themselves had they made it instead. In the same vein, the Russians...

Yeah, but you're not making it out of the quarters. #Banter

Would be nice if it was a quadrangular series, a la the South African Tournament in 2013. Although I'd like fewer players missing through injury and more missing through Lions duty!

Yeah. Fiji would be a much better team if the Wallabies hadn't stolen Henry Speight from them. The ARU are such evil and rich corporate scumbags.

Scotland in Melbourne please. Save me a weekend and some cash.

Cotter taking no chances. Best possible starting 15 with available players, with the possible exception of Strauss vs Wilson. Good bench to round it off, although I'd have preferred Weir over Horne just for this game. If things started going pear shaped, I'd have preferred his squatter body and...

That ref isn't particularly good. Doesn't seem to have an understanding of the flow of the game. Both ways. Hopefully there's better refs somewhere in the country.

Felt conflicted late in that match. Really wanted Namibians to finally get a win, but the automatic qualification for Georgia was so important, ultimately happy with the result, I think Georgian rugby will get more from 3rd place than Namibia could from 1 win.

Should win. Should is worth diddly squat. Us by 20 if Russell plays, us by 6 otherwise.

They'll probably play the other way, they'll just want the big shove from Lopeti in behind the tighthead, given we're still working with a makeshift option.

I think it's just a compromise because the Saffas wanted the Asia Pacific Dragons based out of Singapore to reduce their travel requirements, even though that would have been a stupid decision from a Rugby perspective.

TOCC, the average winning margin in 1995 was 27.25 points If you exclude the 2 thumpings, (Scotlands 89-0 v Cote D'Ivoire, and New Zealand's 145-14 against Japan) that drops to 19.86 points. With only 1 more game above 40 points, and only another 4 above 30.

Fantastic. One more cycle and we can hopefully get that down to 3 tries, then you can really justify the increase to 24.

As an aside, are Giteau's Ribs OK? Lots of discussions around Horne, Folau and Hooper, but not much around him.

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Rebels U20s named. 7 returning from last year, 4 new boys from the Rebels Emerging Players Program including last weeks Rising debutant Jordan Uelese. 3 Schoolboys from the Commonwealth Youth games including Aussie Schoolboy Rob Leota...

Who knows what'll happen. Currently for US Sports comprehensive subscriptions plans seem to be the following. NFL Gamepass is $260 US. NBA League Pass is $200 US. MLB is $130 US, not including pre or post season. NHL will be $115 starting from this year. Most of these are subject to blackouts...

Might be that Beale is viewed as a starting fullback and joker finisher, and if Gits is under an injury cloud for a game or two, having a bench option that can play 10 or 12 is pretty important, which it why Lilo would be played ahead of Quade.

Fair enough. Hosting is slightly different to achieving qualification in a relatively open field.