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It's another level of equalisation. To open squad selection biases heavily against teams without the player base, financial capability to support a 36+ player squad and both, ergo, Rugby Championship and Six Nations sides. Now they're gonna be the ones making the quarters, 9/10 times, but for...

The idea is that your 31 should be all the players that you need, and the changes should only need to be made if the player genuinely can't continue through the tournament or a player needs to leave due to bereavement/familial illness etc. It's slightly less rigid version of football and...

Who knows what TQ wants. All we know is that come October, he'll be turning out in the black blue of the mighty Warriors.

"In the absence of any mitigating circumstances" I'd assume 2 injuries in the 48 hours before the game would count as mitigating circumstances, but 1 injury and not having a replacement in the squad wouldn't be.

It's not a Scottish development contract, it's a genuine bog standard contract. No get out clause. Glasgow has been quite clear about this from the beginning, only the tahs and Chieka have been sowing the seeds of confusion.

As far as I can tell, these are the issues. No 3rd hooker. 5th prop isn't recognised switching prop. Both Douglas and Mumm over Horwill 3 opensides. 2 scrum halfs. Both fly halfs in poor form. 5 wingers. But other than that, yeah, good squad.

So Toby has to cover hooker as well as tighthead? Or has McMahon been doing some sneaky training at 2.

The fuck is this? 31-Man Wallabies Squad for Rugby World Cup 2015 Wallabies Forwards: Hookers Stephen Moore - C (96 Tests) Tatafu Polota-Nau (53 Tests) Props Greg Holmes (17 Tests) Sekope Kepu (56 Tests) Scott Sio (9 Tests)* James Slipper (66 Tests) Toby Smith (uncapped)* Locks Kane...

Italian team: Italy: Masi, Sarto, Benvenuti, Garcia, Venditti, Allan, Palazzani, Vunisa, Zanni, Minto, Bernabò, Geldenhuys, Cittadini, Giazzon, Aguero. Bench: Ghiraldini, Rizzo, Castrogiovanni, Bortolami, Bergamasco, Violi, Canna, McLean.

Yep, mighty mighty Josh Holmes. Didn't think he'd make it when he signed, but having seen him live a few times this season, he's made huge strides. Still a bit wobbly with kicking and general positioning, but he's got a lot down pat for a Ruckman.

Yeah... I don't get it. I really really don't. OK, Fusaro is too small and Roddie Grant is the Beau Robinson of Scottish opensides. You've got Watson, Blake and Cowan already there, and even if you want to just talk Scottish Scottish Opensides, there's Barclay in the Squad, and Kelly Brown...

Scotland name the Squad to play off against the Azzuri. 15 Greig Tonks (Edinburgh Rugby) – 5 caps 14 Sean Lamont (Glasgow Warriors) – 94 caps; 12 tries, 60 points 13 Richie Vernon (Glasgow Warriors) – 21 caps 12 Matt Scott (Edinburgh Rugby) – 26 caps, 3 tries, 15 points 11 Rory Hughes...

The agreement on the circuit was that the RFU would act as the only team that could qualify and that team GB could only have one ticket in the raffle rather than 3. Because they won through that, they got to be the managing body, rather than whichever team came highest through the European...

Saints and hawks are both trying hard. think they've got 6 between them as young scholarship players. Make no mistake, if any of them makes it, they'll be shouting it from the rooftops.

I don't know the specific rules around the Home Nations and qualifications and all that. Since everybody is eligible, I wouldn't see why if he chose to play for Scotland 7s, he wouldn't be allowed to switch to team GB and Scotland full time. But that'd be an issue for world rugby to work out...

Even if he didn't he's played a buttload of Sevens which locked him in. If he had links to elsewhere, he could utilise the 7s loophole to switch sides though, given he's played at 2 comm games they couldn't possibly deny a switch on the basis he wasn't a genuine Olympics chance for whomever...

Poor poor Liam Gill. Does he have English, or French or Scottish ancestry? Utilise the 7s loophole and run mate, you're an absolutely fabulous player, but you're still never gonna get a look in ahead of Pocock or Hooper.

It's not been a scorefest like last season, but it seems to be higher quality than last season so far, defences just holding when they would have fallen away, no easy meters on the outside, kicks in behind being covered rather than scored off of, etc. Fringe defending needs a little work yeah...

It's not going to be vs Brisbane City 14, but its a side that should be capable of winning the game. Are the bonus points still within 8 points defence, 3 more tries attack?

Certainly not going for the best team at all costs like last season. Like it though. It's a capable side. Would have perhaps thought that Engo would have got first go at center, and Ili or Marsters would have got the bench spot, but I'm not psychic.