Malgré sa défaite face à l'Angleterre, la France reste 4e mondiale

“Open side”.

Tom Curry is milking this to deflect attention from the fact that he’s an actual cu nt.

I actually like your idea of putting of personal development for the SR sides, join in on the tour all year, not just for that one week and game they have against them. Always like a new Australian way as well. Was that you saying that was every game?

So I don't see any reason for fearing. From all I've experienced of them they'll turn up no matter what. It would more be about how it might change things down the line, which will only be relevant if it becomes endemic, and then the whole Lions discussion factor because irrelevant.

It was a terrible call (if indeed he did call for that highball) and attempt to let that ball bounce. Otherwise apart from being lame I didn't see too much from him to complain about in this hls.

Death by analysis is not something you would associate with Australian rugby, but they have Northern Hemisphere Joe at the helm, perhaps it would still be more accurate to say that the BIL are the ones to fear over analysis.

Editor came up with a great article title for you for once Nick!

Any player that has played more than a few tame games will have got a lot of wind-ups from the opposition, not many of which would have been very politically correct.

The more likely interpretation is that he was not offended at all, but wanted to milk some sort of sanction on SA. That's what the ref concluded, and honestly it's hard to disagree.

Australias task is to be able to sustain that level (they'll be telling themselves they did it for 3 and a half tests but I'm a bit dubious).

This BIL team is a bit of a drop from the last one too?

But then again, I'm basing that off 'winning', and they shouldn't really be expected to beat Argentina or South Africa, nor even NZ? So might opinion my be flawed/meaningless too.