Wales 19 Samoa 26.

Scoreline flattered Wales.

Given how bad they were against the New Zealand 4th XV to night I dread to think what the All Blacks will do to them next week.

I'm looking forward to it personally

England 14 Australia 20.

England appear in a monstrosity of a strip, but pride in the jersey doesn't appear that important as half of the team appear to come from anywhere in the globe apart from England.

With five minutes to go and a try required to win they call for the creative skills of Owen Farrell. His first act is to pass the ball approximately two yards in front of a colleague's boot straps.

Hopeless rabble crushed last week by France comfortably hold on to win.

Premier League is an utter farce, so probably.

England were pretty awful yesterday. Aussies would have had more if they had a clue how to attack close to the line. With the exception of France, the northern hemisphere seems to be falling further and further behind. Argentina are probably stronger than us now.

My philosophy is to try and get level first and then try to win next.
That means, unless there are only seconds left, have a go at all kickable penalties.
That's the smart way to win.
Declining a string of penalties is silly. After all, Australia won by kicking three of them in the second half and for the England coach to say it was a case of hindsight shows that he would make the same mistake again.
Another loser with a loser's mentality.
His record is rapidly showing how effective he is.
More pain to come I suspect.

Here's an interesting one. 2 games tonight in the Aviva, with a combined total of.. 0 tries


We also had such scores as Glasgow 0-6 Leinster in the Pro12..!
What on earth was in the air tonight??

Rain & Wind



Same for Scotland & England today, crazy.

A good effort today by England but no cigar.
They truly have little idea how to craft tries against top sides, apart from trying to barge over.
They have little idea about when and how to pass a ball to good effect.
And yet there must be a myriad of videos of NZ to watch and learn from.

Wasps beat Leicester 14-12

Hopefully Freddie Burns will get a good run-out this week. England have won less than half the games in which Toby Flood has started, the guy is a bog-standard Premiership fly-half and shouldn't be anywhere near an England jersey. Farrell will probably start but he doesn't deserve to, he's not even the best fly-half at his club.

Farrell nominated for IRB player of the year.

Hilarious

Post of the year. Comedy gold.

(It's not true is it?)