Thanks for all the feedback on the blogs, much appreciated. I know I said nothing till Wednesday, but I have made a couple of decisions, and wanted to put them here so you would see what would happen as the blog grows. I also wanted to throw in a couple of titbits for you.
1. On match days in the World Cup, there will be a blog entry per match. The comments that kept occurring were, fantastic though the blog is (!) the postings were too long to follow easily, so a posting per game might be better. I'll be giving that a go as of Wednesday morning with Samoa vs Namibia
2. Also suggested was rating the players in each game. While I may not do this for every game, I will do so for what I consider to be big games.
3. Polls. The first one was popular, since then, they've been about as popular as diarrhoea. I'll persevere, but please take the time to click an option and vote. I'm genuinely interested in what people think, honestly.
4. I'll be in New Zealand from 30th September and this may take on a slightly more travel log type appearance on occasions. I'll keep it predominately rugby though, as it would be difficult to do it any other way I think.
5. Any questions, suggestions for articles, comments, criticisms, gifts, etc (one of those is a joke obviously..... you can keep your criticism) can be attached here as a comment, tweeted to @theeggchaser or sent via e-mail to marktheeggchaser@gmail.com
And Finally...
Courtney Lawes of England cited for allegedly kneeing Mario Ledesma the Argentinian hooker. Ledesma barely reaches Lawes' knees on tiptoes, but that's not the point. Any citing commissioner who sees intent in Lawes actions, which seemed accidental to me, yet fails to see intent in Quade Cooper's knee to the face of Richie McCaw should go to Specsavers (other opticians are available).
(EDIT: So the RWC Citing Committee actually did find intent in Lawes's knee. I challenge anyone to say that was worse than Cooper's knee on McCaw. Let's look on the positive side, he'll be fresh for Scotland!)
Namibia, fresh from a savaging by monster Fijian winger Vereniki Goneva, and the first side to play their second game, will be pleased to know that up next is Alesana Tuilagi. 111kg and 6 feet 4 of power. I think that's the stuff of nightmares....
Scotland, Tonga and France all make 11 changes for their second games on Wednesday in the case of the first two and Sunday for les Francais. Squad rotation reaches the Rugby World Cup.....
Bye for now, I really will be back early Wednesday with a report of Manu Samoa vs Namibia... early night tonight!!
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