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Although I'd say Volavola has a better kicking game then Foley.

Pocock probably has a longer reach which is better for the back of the scrums, plus Hooper is more mobile and quicker and he has shown he is really good at detaching from the side of the scrum quickly to cover attackers - think of his tackle on Schaulk Burger in the rugby Championship. Although...

Pool B is shaping to be very exciting! I can't wait for: SA V Samoa Japan V Samoa and Japan V Scotland. Should be crackers.

^^Especially when you got De Allende as an option. If he played anything like he did against the Brumbies in the finals of super rugby then I doubt Japan would have been able to stop him - and then having Kriel running off him is a scary thought.

Comments from Jones suggested he only expected to be challenging against the Boks and they were actually targeting the other games for wins. Which suggests to me they always planned on putting out a strong or stronger side against Scotland and Samoa. Certainly fills me with a lot of...

To be fair the plan was probably to play JdV into form, they would have expected Japan to be a suitable game to do this - no-one expected them to be so competitive. I'd imagine if their first game was against us or the AB's they probably would have started De Allende. At least I hope that is...

Yeah Bismark needs to work on his discipline but that is an easy fix. Don't forget he was pretty damn good against us not long ago. Matfield and JdV unfortunately are past it.

Tactically they are have been very poor. But gee their team looks good on paper. I can never ride off a team with players like Bismark, Etzebeth, Burger. And De Allende and Kriel look like such a damaging centre pairing. They will come good with a little more direction.

Don't ride Bismark off yet. Not long ago he played very well against us! Outplayed Moore and caused havoc at the breakdown - I think subbing him so early was a reason we were able to get the last minute win.

Japan played so smart - credit to them. How effective were they at feeding their own scrums. They were clearly dominated but managed to get it out of the scrum in a flash. Australia can learn something from them if our scrum starts going backwards. The accuracy in everything they did...

Wow what a game! Beautiful to watch. JdV a hero in his time but not playing anywhere near his best - and when you have such a damaging runner in De Allende then you would be crazy not to play him. Although hard to blame the loss on one player, it was truly a 15 man performance by Japan. SA...

Yeah Foxtel Play isn't the greatest quality - but decent enough. And there is no matches on demand, the replays are all streamed on tv but they do show them often.

Just got Foxtel Play - They live stream the game every couple of hours all day. There is a free 2 week trial which will do me well until the Finals.

Well shit. Who's backup Hooker for TPN then?

Gotta say our future Hooker stocks are looking pretty good. I was worried about the stocks after Moore and TPN but Hanson and Fainga are great players and Latu is a great prospect.

I thought it had to be at least a 2 week injury for them to be replaced and that would be determined by the RWC medical advisor.

Doesn't matter, they are still targeted easily by the opposition. Recently Carter kicked it straight to Cooper twice last Bled.

AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) is pretty solid, not sure about Mitchell but I hope your right. And lets hope they both actually start. But then there's the issue of To'omua/Gits and Cooper/Foley dropping back to fullback all the time. They have been rubbish under the high ball lately.

Just realised how little I know about Northern Hemisphere rugby. I know hardly any of those English players apart from Courtney Lawes and Ben Youngs.

Zac is a superb player, I know he has had issues off the field but I think its a great signing none the less. I'll back him to have a good season. His skill-set will combine well with Falou in the back 3.