The All Blacks and the Springboks have themselves set for a big clash tomorrow night in Dunedin. The Tri Nations cup is basically up for grabs. If the Boks win tomorrow night then they'll have the tri nations back to back. They will also zoom into the number 1 one team in the world position currently held by the Kiwis. Mind you, no South African side has won at the House of Pain since 1921. Yikes!

There's only two changes to the teams that last met in South Africa. De Wet Barry comes in for the Boks, and Leon McDonald takes over from Dan Carter who is injured. Should be a good game to watch!!

Poor old Eddie continues to wrestle with injury woes from the Wallabies - good news though for young Lloyd Johannson who's been called into the Wallaby squad. Cool! Give him a go! There's more where he came from too :))

Have a great rugby weekend.

Oh boy!! Tack Dan Vickerman and David Lyons to the end of the injured Wallaby list... Lyons needs a groin operation, while Vickerman needs shoulder surgery.

What WILL Eddie do?

Actually, I'm starting to feel a little bit sorry for him at the present. Jones has suggested maybe George Smith at #8 for the next game, while Daruda might get a gernsey as well. Line up the rookies! eenie, meenie, miney, mo'.

Lawrence Dallaglio is apparently considering a comeback. Bet some poms will be pleased to know that.

My stats tell me I'm not the only female who thinks Al Baxter's cute! Dan Carter gets more searches though....

The Wallabies' injury toll continues to mount:

Steve Larkham, Chris Latham, Stirling Mortlock, Wendell Sailor, Elton Flatley, Jeremy Paul, Mark Gerrard, Lachlan MacKay, Greg Holmes, Lloyd Johansson, and Cameron Shepherd are all battling injuries in one form or another. Sheesh!!

Some heartening news from Eddie Jones though in the Autralian newspaper - he's not going to rule out giving the young bloods a run in order to make sure he doesn't get the axe from his coaching job.

The same article tells us that Breyton Paulse copped 3 weeks for kicking Al Baxter in the head during the test last Saturday. Don't damage Al's head - it's way too cute :) Not many front rowers look that handsome!

Later

Well after last night's 22-19 defeat of the Wallabies by South Africa, that's the fourth straight loss for the Australian boys. Uh oh!

The Wallabies didn't play badly last night, things just didn't go right for them starting with the withdrawal of Elton Flatley just before the run on due to blurred vision. That meant a backline reshuffle that would have certainly affected the players.

I must say I thought that the refereeing was ordinary, there was penalty after penalty after penalty. And some dodgy decisions. Sometimes you just wish they'd take the whistle off the ref :)

Drew Mitchell put in another big game for the Wallabies, but it was Habana for the Boks who was the star of the show scoring two break away big runs to go over twice for the Springboks. Wowee that guy is fast. Of course, had David Lyons and Mat Rogers not coughed the ball up on those two occasions then the story may have had a different ending. The Wallabies were actually up at one stage, but it was not to be their night... again.

The pressure mounts on both Gregan and Jones.

Later