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I thought I'd start this thread as a balm to some of the bitterness currently afoot in the lead-up to the RWC final. Let me begin by saying that New Zealand has the most excellent mountains. Much better than the Alps, and much closer than the Rockies. And also the world's best rugby team.

We've witnessed complete change in the Wallaby gameplan over the course of the season. At the start of the year we played a relentlessly wide game. Then, over the course of the year we began to kick more and more, especially with Genia and the box kick. Now we appear to be deliberately...

A most depressing assessment: http://tvnz.co.nz/rugby-world-cup/max-bania-wallabies-bring-abuse-upon-themselves-4419118 :( "We don't like trash-talkers and so we take particular satisfaction when the pro-green-and-gold opinions of Wallaby has-beens like Toutai Kefu and Bob Dwyer are...

They say you need five World XV players in your run on team to win a World Cup. Where do we stand? Sure things: Beale Genia A chance of selection: Ioane JOC (James O'Connor) Cooper Pocock Horwill Moore Quietly simmering: TPN Mitchell Well, that's more than five!

From Grumbles today: I'm as guilty as any of being mesmerised by the young guns such as Pocock, Beale, Cooper and JOC (James O'Connor). But Radike really warms my heart. If he gets out there this year (and I think he will) then everyone in my house is going to be chanting "Samo, Samo, Samo!". What a...

To help me settle an imminent argument on another forum (a rough place, you know where it is)... Can anyone tell me how many official MOTM awards David Pocock has won in tests?

That's an interesting point. Of course, a player of any size travelling at light speed would have infinite mass. Now tackle that! But more seriously, the kinetic energy of an object of mass m traveling at any non-relativistic speed v is mv^2/2. A 90 kg Finger traveling at 10 meters per...