Well, after watching England do the Frogs in the rain, I hope it's fine next week. I know that at 10 o'clock last night, after the game in Sydney, we passed a weather indicator near the ground that showed the temperature as 28 Celsius. If it's like that next week, the Poms will probably melt into little spots of grease. I just hope the Australians recover from it - it must have taken a lot out of them.

The third place playoff between NZ and France looks less and less inviting, somehow. It will be a match betwwen two teams that were just shut out in the semis, and it must be terribly hard for them to pick themselves up, physically and mentally. Somebody has to consider repacing the 3 v 4 playoff with a Barbarians-type game between the stars of the teams who did not make the semis.