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Well, Poite was letting Cole bind illegally so, yes, he might as well keep doing it. Silly to bring Bevington back on, I agree. Poite has always been clueless at scrumtime. Good Leicester win in the end even if a couple of fortuitous tries set up the bonus point. What a massive difference Ben...

Bardon, Cole hasn't bound legally once in the match. Binding on the arm, giant paw on the ground a couple of times for balance. He's been pulling Bevington down. Poite has butchered Os in the scrum.

We cross-posted, Bardon. Toulon should have done much, much better. Still, a win's a win. I agree about the French teams. Toulouse and Clermont look comfortable. Toulon will have to overcome their schizophrenia.

Toulon had more trouble with the Blues than expected winning 22-14. On paper, with their team of internationals, after a great effort last week, against the Blues who have struggled this season, going down meekly to Sale last week, you'd expect a decent work out and a comfortable Toulon win. You...

They can be v. depressing to watch for sure. Then they come out as against Edinburgh last week and confound everything. Personally I can do without them and the distinctly unpleasant Brendan Venter.

Between 17 and 20,000 depending which report you read.

Tolofua has a discipline problem. He's young, certainly, but this, from yesterday's match, is just ridiculous:

Predictably, Biarritz had too much quality at home for Zebre winning 38-17 on a boggy pitch in pouring rain. Daniel Halangahu, ex-Tahs, started at 12 for Zebre after starting at 15 last week, and has goal-kicking duties. Thus far, on two sightings, his handling has let him down. That aside, his...

It took 55 minutes for the sleeping giant to stir but it finally did. Toulouse minced the Treviso pack, finally getting a penalty try. That seemed to fire them up because they hadn't looked much like crossing the line. Bang, bang, 33-21, game over. Ironically, Treviso gave Toulouse more trouble...

Absolutely. He came back from his ligament strain too early a couple of years ago.

The rugby world here in the NH is in utter shock. I only saw him a couple of times with Ulster in HC matches - the only Celtic games I get to see - and he was talented. Just a tragedy in every way - for family and friends, and the rugby community.

Sam de Brito? Writes a glib column in the SMH about the trials and tribulations of being a male.

Sam's writing is shallow at the best of times. I met him when he had a crack at working in television. He invents words like "bazillion". 'Nuff said.

If so, that's not much for 5 years. And the FTA rights were being sold by Fox Sports and not the ARU? Or am I misreading that. I can't believe the ARU would have sold the FTA rights to Fox Sports in a bundle. Anyway, rugby is getting little benefit out of 9 with its delayed coverages.

Probably not much given that, historically, rugby doesn't attract big audiences.

Ditto. Dodgy selections, zilch tactical nouse.