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You really can't help yourself, can you? I made a complimentary comment about the All Blacks, and I've often used their extraordinary achievements given the country's population of around just 5 million, to show just how much the mind and self-belief can affect a person's performance. But, all...

The best rugby, eh, without the need for the infantile capitals? As an Englishman, I admire the All Blacks but find insufferable the implicit belief that many New Zealand contributors to sites such as this one seem to have, that their contributions somehow mirrors that of their team. Oh, that...

I'll make the first olive branch move on this. I retract the sarcastic and cynical comments I fired at others, because I love the sport and I really don't want to fall out with anybody over it. In terms of this thread's ***le, and though others may disagree, I like that World Rugby has...

I'll wear that cos if anyone should know someone who talks out of their ass, you should, you've been doing it ever since you drew breath. Let's face it, if you were on the island in 'Lord Of The Flies', you'd be up there with Jack's tribe. It's got nothing to do with the laws of physics, either...

Truth is a concept that is almost beyond man's thinking and, apart for the religious, is just a subjective belief resting on a foundation of straw. For example, since you say 'complete ignorance', what is 'incomplete ignorance'? And how do you know enough to sweepingly say that 'People who want...

Does it? Man and facts make uneasy bedfellows, let me give you the tip. 'Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay./Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.', and if Shakespeare's too much of a challenge, try Gray's Elegy, like: 'The paths of glory lead but to the grave.' So in post 126, in...

I guess you're speaking to me. You and others treated her as a child, but not in a way to impart knowledge but just ego. If I see what I think are forward passes that aren't pulled up, and I'd say it happened at least once in the final, but the ref misses or doesn't call it, though one or more...

Don't you think 'fantastic' is hyperbole? He was good and, I thought, generally fair. This constant criticism of the refereeing, even of Barnes, is childish, soppy and invalid. The All Blacks did, rightly, have a man sin-binned, and Australia were bloody lucky that they didn't lose Kepu for ten...

Deliberate misspelling there with 'weant' , or perchance the stuff of dreams? Right back at me in your dreams, pal, bait included. Tell you: Got bad news: I did see it coming.

Well, what big and selective ears you must have, but, still, seriously, 'No.', despite your exclamation mark, cos I thought the refereeing was generally good, and I don't need a punctuation crutch to help me make the point. This general criticism of, and the negative commentaries on, the...

Oh, subtle, only gullible members engage her and quote her posts. Guess that's marked me, and I didn't even see that coming. Maybe your simple grade-school science reference frames could slip in a bit of English, too, so that you capitalise 'Gramine', and spell 'because' and 'necessarily'...

Nah, it wasn't cheating, mate. It was just incompetent refereeing. Surely you've heard of it? - - - Updated - - - No.

Why are you continuing to post such insults to Gamine? That's not a rhetorical question, by the way, though you're in good company in ignoring it on this forum cos a few of the knowledgeable 'in-crowd' have responded with a deathly and deafening silence to some I have posted about cheating...

That's alright. I myself, in the bad old days of the 11+ and living in a North London council housing estate and having failed mine - the cards were well stacked in those days - went to the local secondary modern factory fodder school where, as mad as it now seems, rugby wasn't even offered...

Gamine, we don't all feel the same way on this forum - I've been a member for around three years but, apart from one or two earlier posts, have only relatively recently started posting more regularly. I soon picked up that there's a little cliquey group that thinks it's on the money when it...

In the game against France in Paris, when Cipriani came on and worked his magic, you can imagine England's coaches, despite his great play and try, almost willing him not to succeed. They should try reading William Blake's great poem 'A Poison Tree' cos it sure fits some of them like a glove...

Like other English supporters, you can't go around for too long being down in the dumps about it. After all, it is only a game and it wasn't as if England had a team anywhere near comparable to our 2003 side. I must admit, though, that the review group they've set up doesn't do much for my...

Yes, I do, since the referee and his linesman hadn't spotted it, and, as a matter of fact, it is cheating. Roy Carroll cheated, which is why he quickly and sneakily glanced at the linesman. Seeing as he saved United two points, why is it the one game during his career at United that he'd like to...

We'll have to agree to disagree on that, then, because the poor officiating only occurred as a result of his cheating. Would Roy Carroll be proud of showing what he did to his two children? And if that's too strong, why, then, does he say about his time at United that the Spurs game is the one...