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Here’s a replay of Stirling Mortlock’s crunching tackle on Riki Flutey. With these touch judges he was lucky not to be penalised, but it would have been worth it the lift it gave the team.
Also in this sequence is Cross’ impressive turnover, and an example of one of those little no-where runs that Burgess made a habit of last Saturday.
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Four days on and the smile still hasn’t left my face. But can the magic carry on?
The beginning of this century was the last time the Wallabies beat the French at home. Outside of Word Cups, before last weekend Australia hadn’t won two away games in a row since 2004, and hasn’t won three since 2000. You can see why Antipodeans is so keen to talk about ‘backing up’ wins and should he notch…
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Here’s a birthday present I got today, from Cecil B. De Moses as it happens. One of the best I got (and there were a few good ones in there!)
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Argentina may currently occupy fourth position in the IRB World Rankings, but were they to lose to Ireland at Croke Park this weekend then they could lose that position to England, France or Wales depending on results elsewhere.”
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Here are the teams for Australia vs France this Saturday at Stade de France.Robinson gets a rest with Alexander at loose head and Kepu on the bench. Palu’s back at 8 after his rampage at Twickers and Brown’s injury. Chisholm hits the bench, MMM replaces him and Mumm steps into blindside. A good pack but a risk at loose head?
For France Ellisalde is out following his coathanger from the PI’s last…
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All Blacks coach Graham Henry has won a prestigious international fair play award for his conduct following his team’s shock Rugby World Cup quarter-final loss to France last year.”
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Not great highlights, but worth it for the hit by Cliffy on Cipriani at the end.
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Here are my thoughts on the Australia player ratings from the momentous test at Twickenham on Saturday. Tally with what you saw?
Rating scale at bottom.
15 Adam Ashley-Cooper Everything was OK, except for the kicking. Still not a fullback. 4
14 Peter Hynes - Not seeing the gas or sparkle a winger should have. Couldn’t get around Croft the England blind side with 10 yards gap. 4
13 Ryan Cross…
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The Rugby World Cup 2011 Pool Allocation Draw will be shown live on rugbyworldcup.com.
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Here are the scrums from Australia vs England at Twickenham. Enjoy.
Thanks to Cecil.B de Moses
It was fascinating with the radio feed from the ref at the ground (’Ref-link’). I’m not sure how much of it you got over that twat commentator on the Aussie feed (where was he from?)
At every other breakdown you could hear Smith shouting “Release, release!” as he stood over the ball. He had a chat…
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Spain show glimpses of their vast potential to challenge the teams at the top of the European Nations Cup during their 22-11 win over Germany in Madrid.
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England 14 - Australia 28
There is only one test match I’ve been to that felt better than that, and it was the 1991 World Cup final. What a game. What a vindication.
In world sport there can’t have been many who have carried the stigma that Al Baxter and the rest of the Aussie forward pack has carried for the past three pus years. We’ve all been guilty of heaping it on him and, and none more…
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Eddie Jones has made history by talking sense twice in the last seven days. First in the Times, giving his match preview and picking the back row to be an edge for us.
The second, a great article pointed out by Bobas in the Independent, goes through in depth how Australia has managed to clearly dominate world rugby with only 40 of us playing it. It’s too long and probably illegal to put it all…
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