France boss Fabien Galthie rests frontline stars for first Japan test

You haven’t answered the core question: why put an IRISH ref in charge of an IRISH team playing in IRELAND when there was a welsh ref on the touch line?

Ps not a Stormers fan. Not a bok either!

Passes not such a good tool because the #9 nearly always passes from the base first.

Don't worry JW, we'll get you there on the stats understanding front - though at the current rate you might to redo a few semesters in college😆

Also, I know it is easy to lump all of Ireland in together, but Munster people wouldn't exactly be favouring Leinster, and the ref is from Munster.

Yes, AJ Lam was that player this year.

That's when DMac is also the biggest liability. Forced to be the playmaker is the best way he can contribute being such a tiny bloke.

That was actually one of the reasons I liked the older age bracket, it attracts the youth and also gives them somewhere to go after hs, something to capitilize on, as currently it all just dies out without an immediate or obvious step. It helps to remove a bit of the seriousness as well, which can be misplaced at that age. Sure it might be older kids that look upto it but I wouldn't change hs footy at all. Agreed though, its about the only place left with that sort of tribalism so you wouldn't want to destroy it. As there wouldn't be more than a dozen university teams hs should definitely still have cause to retain it's high following.

Haha it would certainly be cool being in that particular environment with some influence. I had a mate who worked there and said it wasn't great, but that was under the guy that got kicked out. University rugby is that stepping stone you're after 😉 thank me once you're able to pay for my time and expertise!

He was more than fair to the Stormers, but as usual for a South African teams, you lose you moan.

Half the team in blue were kids, and Leinster had 6 backs on the pitch for 25 minutes, and 5 for 10 mins, but the Stormers had thrown in the towel by then.

And, by the way, I would say he was more than fair to the Stormers. He gave them three consecutive warnings of "Do that again, and someone goes to the bin" for penalties in the 22, and failed to give the yellow when they did it again.