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The English Premiership regular season has finished with Saracens just pipping Exeter to the final knock out spot on points difference. A shame as it would have been their first time in the knock outs since being promoted to the premiership 4 or 5 years ago, and a lot of their team seem to be...

Not 100% sure where this should go.... Tuilagi will miss the world cup this year for England due to assaulting a police officer. Right call by Lancaster on this really, that behaviour can't be tolerated. Bloody good thing Joseph has stepped up for us recently! Though I bet there are a few...

I was making a joke based upon Heaslip knocking the ball out of his hand meaning England needed an extra try. But yeah I really like Hogg as a player, as you say its just plain unlucky for him to be Scottish!

Sad to hear, I mean Stuart Hogg clearly needs to practice holding onto a ball but that's just for the good of his own game you know :p

I'll have a looksie later. Disappointing, I don't want to think there is any sort of match fixing in the sport.

Have they? I haven't heard any of this. Doesn't look good if they have, I wouldn't want that from my national team. And I have always thought that the team has been doing a job to come across as good eggs under Lancaster.

Very strong team in that link. I might not agree with all of them, but I can certainly see the reasoning behind the picks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/32014778 He has been pretty damn good for Exeter these last few years, and I am sure I read somewhere he just has to play one club game prior to the RWC at any level to be eligible. Left it bloody late though! Also.... That hand off!

Hardly miles... His feet seem to be behind that red line which I would say is the offside line as it sits at the back of the ruck and that is after the ball has been passed. It was a big hit, and it looked like it hurt. However I don't see a rule that it broke. Haskell tripped someone in...

I highly doubt courtney lawes went in with the mind set that this hit would kill/maim/paralyse Plisson.

What if the guy throws a dummy... an international 10 with a second row infront of him, it's not unreasonable. I just don't see the issue with the hit, this feels a bit like the Bismark Du Plessis hit vs Carter a few years ago. Looks like a real big hit, probably hurt (def hurt in the Lawes...

Is it really though? If someone had said something racist and he had argued 'That's just rugby', would people still defend him? Why is homophobic bigotry better than racist bigotry?

You could argue the whole contact nature of the sport isn't a good selling point to those types of mums. Nothing wrong with the hit, wasn't high, was clearly committed. Yes it was a big hit, but are you going to take those out of the game? A big guy making a tackle of a small guy, always gonna...

Now I am not an Aussie but I feel that if Pocock can get some sort of form together and stay injury free (fingers crossed) then he is likely to get that Wallaby 7 jersey, and maybe even captain. He comes across as a great role model and a great guy, both on and off the field. Which isn't...

This. The commentators keep praising him for his bravery, but surely he could make those tackles without putting his head in front of a knee? Other fullbacks manage to be solid tacklers without getting knocked out.

Why not substitute him at half time or 50 minutes then? You would have a solid scrum in the first half, and hopefully the new prop would be fresher than his opponents when he comes on. Lets be honest, tight head is a real issue for Wales at the moment. I heard alot about Samson Lee coming into...

Awesome day.... 3 awesome games. especially that last one. France as always had their one good game. Congrats to Ireland, they have been the best team this tournament I reckon so fair one. However, this will come across as sour grapes due to the last minute thing, but it's one thing that...

if I was picking the potentially best team then it would be different, but I have tried to stick to this years 6Ns form. Hence Ford over Sexton, as for SOB vs Robshaw, well that would be a hard choice if both in form (English bias again?) but SOB has spent half this tournament injured though. I...

Very big day, shame I won't be able to watch it live! I like the Welsh system if clubs not playing on International day on days like today! First game back from a 5 month injury though so still excited. As for the 6Ns, I see Ireland winning it, they are only a few points behind England and...

I can see how that would be fun, the BBC really does seem to pick their rugby presenters based on being a bit of a twat. All included