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I'd like to give some praise to the ITV commentators (as opposed to the pundits) who, during the pool games managed to do a pretty good job of knowing the names of the Japanese, Fijians, Georgians, Rumanians, Samoans, Russians, Canadians ... and all of the rest. They had done some serious...

"It wasn't 30-0 because this is womens rugby" You seem to be suggesting that women aren't capable of racking up big scores. Yet the facts suggest otherwise. New Zealand thumped South Africa 55-3 and Wales 41-8, the English walloped Kazakstan 82-0 and Canada beat Scotland 41-0. Why were these...

Whilst I agree the Black Ferns were clearly the more dominant side, to say the 'game was not close at all' when the final score was 13-10 is puzzling. If the game wasn't close, how come the Black Ferns didn't rack up a cricket score? Their try-count was the same as England's - why so, given...

While this might appear to have been a dour encounter, the shocking conditions dictated the tactics; teeming rain throughout the match meant it was never going to be a feast of sparkling back play. I suspect even the wonderful backs of the other major Southern hemisphere sides would have...

Mmmm.. I disagrre with some/most of this ;-) A technical infringement isn't just a bit of bad luck nor an unfortunate error. It is almost always a deliberate decision by a player to slow down opposition ball. You say very few world class flankers or other forwards deliberately do this. I say...

But if, as a defender, you knew you would give away 7 points if you infringed, you would think twice about giving away a penalty - thus allowing the attacking side that bit more time to ensure quick ball and therefore create a try-scoring opportunity. In the Argentina match, for example, would...

I was lucky enough to see the game on Sky channel 990 and the Scots can be forgiven for not scoring tries. They clearly wanted to score tries and they were playing with considerable flair but just when the rucks had been won and the overlap created the Argentine players would handle in the ruck...