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Two midweek defeats and a Test loss in the space of a fortnight confirms the world champs have been struggling so far on what was always going to be a tough European trip. And it's not going to get any easier.

The scorelines may read otherwise, but the battle-weary Boks have been comprehensively beaten on each occasion and the somewhat embarrassing results have only put a dampener on a successful year for the men in green and gold.

When the midweek 'dirt-trackers' weren't getting blown off the park against Leicester, the first-choice Boks were running around in boots filled with concrete in Toulouse. Any hope of making amends at Wembley Stadium, were quickly put to bed by a brave Saracens fightback and drop-goal to Derick Hougaard - a former Bok.

The world woke up on Thursday finally knowing the complete, 32-team field for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa next summer. (The last team to qualify was Uruguay, which drew with Costa Rica Wednesday night in Montevideo, but had beaten the Costa Ricans over the weekend.) On Dec. 4, the teams will be seeded and sorted by lottery into eight groups by the sport's international body, FIFA. Then, it's only 203 days until the fun begins. Here are five reasons to get excited about the opening kick-off:

African soccer had its first big moment two decades ago when a little known Cameroon side dazzled its way into the quarterfinals of the 1990 World Cup in Italy. Before then, Sub-Saharan Africa hadn't made much of an impression on the global soccer stage beyond the occasional embarrassing episode, such as when a Zaire defender tried to pre-empt a Brazil free kick by booting the ball away in the 1974 tournament. But since the early 1990s, the stature of African football has only grown: top African players are now superstars in the world's flashiest leagues, while players of African descent are increasingly competing for spots on Europe's best national teams, including once homogeneous squads like those of Germany and Italy. The continent's top teams have an unprecedented chance to make a run in the tournament next year on African soil. No African team has yet to surpass what Cameroon achieved in 1990 — 2010 may be the year that one does.

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That means Adriaan Strauss, Danie Rossouw and Andries Bekker also come into the starting XV.

Italy coach Nick Mallett has dropped experienced duo Mauro Bergamasco and Gonzalo Canale to the bench as he looks to snap a 12-game losing streak.

Matteo Pratichetti, Alberto Sgarbi, Simon Picone, Simone Favaro and Fabio Ongaro come into the side that lost to the All Blacks.

The Azzurri have never beaten the Springboks - with them having lost every game by at least 19 points.

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Having lost to the All Blacks and beaten Samoa so far in their autumn internationals, Wales now turn their attentions to the Pumas - with Gatland looking for improvements from his squad.

However Gatland, who has made six changes for the clash, knows his side will have to front-up to the visitors.

"Argentina are a very physical side and we expect a tough encounter but we want to play some rugby," said Gatland.

"We expect them to kick a lot of ball so it's up to our back three to counter attack when there are chances, but we have to be smart and not run into brick walls.

"We're certainly looking to increase the tempo and intensity from last week's performance against Samoa. We only had a six-day turnaround after the All Blacks game and a few of the boys admitted they felt a bit flat, but they are all feeling fresh this week."

Gatland has recalled Stephen Jones, Shane Williams, Martyn Williams, Matthew Rees and Gareth Cooper, while 21-year-old centre Jonathan Davies makes his first start.

"We can't worry about 27 years of history," Scotland's Australian-born lock Nathan Hines said.

"All we've got to worry about is the game at the weekend. History is history _ maybe we can make a little bit of our own."

South Africa should end a run of consecutive losses to France and clubs Leicester and Saracens at Udine against Italy. But a rash of injuries to frontrowers have given loosehead prop Wian du Preez his first test cap and Adriaan Strauss a start for injured hooker Bismarck du Plessis.

Prop Tendai Mtawarira and lock Victor Matfield will come off the bench, where they've been joined by Ulster prop BJ Botha, who was summoned for only his second test since winning the 2007 World Cup.

Wales has lost four of its last six matches against Argentina, but expects to put away a rebuilding Pumas side at Millennium Stadium.

The Pumas made only two changes from the loss to England, and Wales coach Warren Gatland doesn't believe their limited attack will pose much threat to the home side.

"Argentina are a dogged side. They are tough and physical, but they don't play a huge amount of rugby," Gatland said.

He brought in Ospreys lock Jonathan Thomas as a reserve on Thursday after Cardiff's Bradley Davies sprained an ankle in training. Also, fullback Morgan Stoddart was ruled out indefinitely with a torn hamstring.

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France also had to make a late change, when No. 8 Louis Picamoles was ruled out of playing Samoa because of a knee injury in training and replaced at No. 8 by flanker Julien Bonnaire, whose position was filled by captain Thierry Dusautoir. France has changed almost the entire side from the 20-13 win over South Africa to rest the first-choice players for the All Blacks next week.

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England gets ready to face the might of New Zealand on Saturday at Twickenham and a much better performance than the one against Argentina last week is needed if they are to challenge the formidable Kiwis.

England did defeat the Argentines 16-9, however Martin Johnson’s men were heavily criticised for the way they have played. However Johnson has publicly defended his players and told BBC Sport "You can't deny the pressure is there but you deal with it. We won against Argentina and dug ourselves out of a hole to beat a team that is ranked fourth in the world."

Johnson will make three changes to his team, as Ayoola Erinle the Biarritz centre will replace Northampton's Shane Geraghty. Wasps lock Simon Shaw shall be in the second row at the expense of Louis Deacon and Tom Croft will play on the blind-side flank instead of Joe Worsley. The three men who have been replaced shall drop to the substitute’s bench.



England has not defeated the All Blacks since 2003 and has lost their last seven test matches against them. Johnny Wilkinson has warned his team mates that they will have to be versatile and disciplined if they are to cause an upset. He told Sky Sports, “You have to react hard. You have to push yourself. You have to accept it will be fast and frantic and tough. They are full of world-class players and you cannot switch off.”

Bond returns to the Test arena after a two-year absence, while Tuffey last donned the whites for New Zealand against England in June 2004, although he was an unused member of the squad in the Test series loss in Sri Lanka in August.

The batting line-up sees all-rounder Grant Elliott and right-hander Peter Fulton return to the Test squad after last playing against Australia a year ago.

NZ squad: Daniel Vettori (captain), Shane Bond, Grant Elliott, Daniel Flynn, Peter Fulton, Martin Guptill, Chris Martin, Brendon McCullum, Tim McIntosh, Iain O'Brien, Jeetan Patel, Ross Taylor, Daryl Tuffey.

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Elliott, who captained the New Zealand Invitational XI against Pakistan in the warm-up match in Queenstown, replaces the retired Jacob Oram, while Fulton takes the place of Jesse Ryder, who is out with an abdominal tear and adductor strain.

Test seamers Iain O'Brien and Chris Martin slot back into the squad after not being involved in the one-day and Twenty20 internationals against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates.

The first Test begins on Tuesday at Dunedin's University Oval and is followed by Tests in Wellington and Napier.

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The tournament, which runs Aug. 20 to Sept. 5 in England, features three pools of four teams with defending champion New Zealand, 2006 runners-up England and 2006 bronze medallist France seeded first in their groups.

The French beat Canada 17-8 in the third-place game in 2006, when the tournament was held in Edmonton.

New Zealand, England, France, Canada, the U.S., and South Africa all qualified directly for the finals, with Wales and Ireland earning their spot through the Six Nations, Sweden and Scotland from the European qualifiers in May, Australia as Oceania qualifier and Kazakhstan from Asia.

The qualification stage, which saw 16 teams compete for the six remaining non-automatic berths, was completed when Kazakhstan defeated Japan 43-5 to claim a place in Pool B.

Pool A features New Zealand, Wales, Australia and South Africa while Pool B consists of England, the U.S., Ireland and Kazakhstan.

The match schedule will be announced Monday at Twickenham. Six team captains will attend, including Canada's Mandy Marchuk.

"We are very confident we can turn that result around. They are a very strong side but so are we," said Spencer.

"It is a great opportunity to play after the men at Twickenham [the women's match kicks off at 1645 GMT]. Hopefully a lot of the supporters will stay on and watch us too.

"It is a big game between the top two women's teams in international rugby. It is a fantastic opportunity for them to see what the women's game is all about."

England clinched their fourth successive Women's Six Nations title this year, but are without six first-choice players with Rochelle Clark, Katy Storie, Sarah Hunter, Sarah Beale, Karen Jones and Danielle Waterman all sidelined with injuries.

Their opponents, the Black Ferns, are the dominant power in the women's game.

They have won the last three World Cups, in 1998, 2002 and 2006, beating England in the last two finals.

The pools for next year's World Cup, to be held in London from 20 August to 5 September, were announced on Wednesday.

England, top seeds in their pool, will face USA, Ireland and Kazakhstan.

Wales - who beat England in this year's Six Nations - are in with favourites New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

Scotland are in the third pool of four with the other top seeds France, plus Canada and Sweden.

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The men's cross country team competed at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championship on Saturday, November 14 at Franklin Park in Boston, Mass. PC placed third in a field of 36 institutions with 78 points. Sophomore Lee Carey (Bedworth, England) led all Friar runners with a second-place overall finish in the 10K race in a time of 30:46. Junior David McCarthy (Waterford, Ireland) placed fourth in a time of 31:07. Sophomore Dominic Channon (Nelson, New Zealand) finished 16th in the field with a time of 31:32. Sophomore Matt Terry (Danbury, Conn.) completed the course in 25th place, while sophomore Julian Matthews (Nelson, New Zealand) rounded out the scorers with a 31st place finish (32:17). Carey and McCarthy each earned All-Northeast Region honors for their individual finishes. The Friars received an at-large bid to the NCAA Championship and will travel to Terre Haute, Ind. on Monday, November 23. The race is set for 12:08 p.m.

The women's cross country team also took part at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championship on Saturday, November 14 at Franklin Park in Boston, Mass. The Friar women placed second in a field of 35 teams with 70 points. The women's squad automatically qualified for a spot in the NCAA Cross Country Championship with its second-place team finish. The Friars were led by three runners who finished in the top-10 individually. Freshman Shelby Greany (Suffern, N.Y.) placed second overall in the field with a time of 22:08. Sophomore Hannah Davidson (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) completed the 6K course in fifth place with a time of 22:15. Senior Breffini Twohig (Dublin, Ireland) placed 10th overall with a time of 22:31. Rounding out the scorers for Providence were junior Emma Perron (West Hartford, Conn.) and sophomore Mary Kate Champagne (Plattsburg, N.Y.). Perron placed 20th (22:51), while Champagne completed the race in 33rd place (23:16). Greany, Davidson and Twohig each earned All-Northeast Region honors for their individual performances. The women will compete in the NCAA Championship in Terre Haute, Ind. on Monday, November 23. The start of the race is set for 12:58 p.m.



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WWE finishes off their European tour this weekend, then heads back to the Unites States for television, while TNA has a loades schedule with two house shows in the Northeast before heading to Florida for the Turning Point Pay-per-view and a pair of Impact tapings.

The WWE Raw crew runs today, November 13th, at Tony Garnier Hall in Lyon, France, and runs the same venue tomorrow, November 14th. After traveling back to North America, Raw broadcasts on Monday, November 16th from Madison Square Garden in New York City with Rowdy Roddy Piper as the guest host, Divas Champion Melina vs. Alicia Fox and a main event of The Undertaker & John Cena vs. DX vs. Chris Jericho & Big Show.

The WWE Smackdown crew runs today, November 13th, at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany. They head to Dublin, Ireland for a show at The O2 on Saturday, November 14th. The Smackdown crew finishes up their tour on Sunday, November 15th at Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Undertaker is scheduled for the Belfast show, so he's got quite the schedule appearing there, then heading to New York for Raw. Smackdown and ECW tape their final shows before Survivor Series on Tuesday, November 17th at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with Paul Burchill vs. The Hurricane in a match where if Hurricane loses, he must unmask, and if Burchill loses, he and Katie Lea will leave ECW.

Shane Williams highlighted the fact that Wales has scored just two tries at home in 2009 as an area for concern.

"We are creating things but we're just not finishing off tries at the moment," Williams said. "We haven't hit the panic button yet as we have players behind the scrum who score tries week in, week out for fun."

Australia lost the chance of a first grand slam since 1984 last week but made just one change to its team for its match at Murrayfield, resting Dublin man of the match David Pocock and restoring George Smith at openside flanker.

Coach Robbie Deans said the 21-year-old Pocock needs time off after his display in a game in which Australia never trailed and led until Brian O'Driscoll touched down in the last minute.

"David had an outstanding game, and was deservedly man of the match in Dublin, but he did get knocked around a bit," Deans said. "Because of that, we decided it was prudent to give him a complete breather at this point.

"We're in the fortunate position of having George in form and ready to go."

Also Saturday, Ireland hosts Fiji and World Cup champion South Africa is at Italy seeking a first win on its European tour.

The Springboks have lost to France and English clubs Leicester and Saracens so far.

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The final game of the weekend sees fourth-placed Clermont Auvergne at home to seventh-placed Biarritz on Saturday evening. Clermont will be especially keen to register the win after successive draws – at home to Stade Francais and away to Castres – but international calls have also hit ‘Les Jaunards’ hard. In addition they have fitness concerns over Australian fly-half Brock James. Biarritz could include former rugby league star Karmichael Hunt for the first time since he signed a short-term contract to play for the Basques until the end of the season.

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Time: 15:05 until 17:05(GMT)
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Top 14 reaches the halfway stage this weekend as round 13 signals the return of league action after a two week break for international matches. It briefly threatened to become an unscheduled three week interlude when a proposed strike was mooted on Wednesday – over the government enforced loss of a current tax break in French sport – but club presidents eventually backed down and opted for a negotiated way forward, for the time being at least.

That means the eagerly anticipated Paris derby can go ahead as scheduled on Saturday as Racing-Metro 92 play host to Stade Francais for the first time since regaining their top flight status.

It is just one of several tasty encounters to whet the appetite, with others including high-flying Castres at home to Stade Toulousain in yet another test of the former’s staying power.

But the action kicks off on Friday night with what looks a classic mismatch on paper as basement boys SCA Albi welcome leaders and defending champions Perpignan. Albi go into the game rooted to the foot of the table after just one win in their opening 12 league matches, including a current five-game losing streak. Perpignan, by contrast, come in with confidence soaring after winning their last three league encounters as they overcame Stade Francais (20-14 away), Castres (17-15 at home) and Toulon (25-9 at home).

They are not infallible, however, and Albi will take what hope they can from the Catalans’ disappointing away defeats to the likes to Bourgoin, Montpellier and Benetton Treviso this season.

The Racing versus Stade Francais clash is the most eye-catching of Saturday’s games but the sad thing about the first Paris derby in a decade is that it might not even be a sell-out. Only 10,000 of the 14,000 tickets had been sold by Thursday, with the 2.30pm kick-off being just three and a half hours before France take on Samoa at the nearby Stade de France.

That has inevitably resulted in less interest than would be guaranteed on any other league weekend, especially with Stade Francais being stripped of so many of their international players. Indeed, Max Guazzini’s side go into the fixture with no less than 19 players unavailable, either through injury or international commitments.

One player who will be there, though, is Racing’s former France captain Lionel Nallet, who was given the weekend off by national coach Marc Lièvremont as he experiments with his line-up against Samoa.

Nallet will be without club-colleague Sebastien Chabal – who is playing against Samoa – but Springbok and IRB Player of the Year nominee Francois Steyn is available as Racing seek to extend their four-match winning run.

Last weekend's Top 14 action was very much a tale of the two Parisien clubs, with Racing Metro winning 27-20 at home to Toulouse and Stade Francais gaining an all-important 19-19 draw away to Clermont Auvergne.

A last-gasp penalty by Brock James saved the blushes of Clermont coach Vern Cotter, who attempted to look for positives in what was nevertheless a poor result for Les Auvergnats.

"It's a big disappointment," said Cotter, speaking to Midi Olympique. "A drawn match at home is never good news, especially having had a ten point lead at the break. But after the mediocre performance last weekend (losing 16-9 to Montpellier) it was better."

For veteran France and Stade Francais prop Sylvain Marconnet, the result was further confirmation of his side's return to form after a disastrous start to the season.

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"It was a continuation of our performance against Brive last week (18-10 win) but not in the same context," said Mannix, in an interview with La Depeche du Midi. "We played at home in front of 14,000 for the first time this season. That was fantastic.

"We're very happy with the application of the players on the pitch. This victory is for everyone. It's merited for all the work done off the ball and the defensive performance, which was the key."

Meanwhile, Castres fly-half Romain Teulet insisted that his side would learn from their 17-15 defeat at Stade Aime Giral on Friday night. The surprise package of this year's Top 14 led 12-0 thanks to four Teulet penalties before the French champions hit back.

Teulet said: "You can never be content with a defeat but we now know the difference between this type of team and teams that aren't as strong."

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The 29-year-old helped his country to Grand Slam glory nine months ago, a decade after making his international bow as a wide-eyed teenager.

Ireland have provided the Magners League Champions in both the past two seasons, as well as on five out of eight occasions since the tournament was introduced in 2001/02.

And with three of the country's four provinces currently in the top five in the Magners League standings, things are certainly looking bright on the domestic scene as well as the European and international fronts.

D'Arcy, who starts for his country against Fiji at his home venue of the Royal Dublin Showground on Saturday evening, puts a lot of the most-recent success down to an increased competition for places among the provinces and the national team.




"I don't believe it has ever been this been this intense," D'Arcy told the Irish Examiner.

"This is probably the most competitive period, from Leinster right through to the international team.

"The so-called younger guys now have 15-20 caps, so they're not exactly novices any more. They might only be 21, 22 or 23 but they can't be called inexperienced. They've all played, they've all won a Grand Slam or achieved something big.

"It's just red-hot competition - which is the way the coaches want it."

That competition has seen his own international place come under threat, as well as that of fellow Leinster veteran Shane Horgan, but D'Arcy insists that he is delighted that competition for places continues to rise.

Injury saw D'Arcy lose his place in Ireland's starting XV to Paddy Wallace, with the Ulsterman still first-choice under Declan Kidney.

Horgan, a hero of so many Irish victories over recent years, had also become more of a squad man than a regular starter under Kidney but injury to Luke Fitzgerald has given the giant wing another chance to impress this weekend.



England team manager Martin Johnson is asking his players to give him something against New Zealand they've been unable to produce during his 18 months in charge of the national team: consistency over a whole game.

"New Zealand are never worse than very good," Johnson said. "We need consistency as a group for 80 minutes. Pressure is what it is all about and you do that on the field by being a united group of players.

"To beat the All Blacks you have to have a solid 80-minute game. They will get points on you at some point and you have to be resilient enough to bounce back."

England played well for 26 minutes against Australia two weeks ago but then stumbled and lost 18-9, while it was tied 9-9 with Argentina until the 70th minute last weekend before scoring a late try for a 16-9 win.

Australia is at Scotland on Saturday seeking to recover from the disappointment of a 20-20 draw at Ireland and Argentina is at Wales.

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England is set for a tougher match than any of them, although the All Blacks have been below their sparkling best in wins over Wales and Italy.

The New Zealand team features 13 personnel changes to the second-string lineup that beat Italy 20-6 last weekend, with star flyhalf Dan Carter set to become his nation's all-time leading scorer as he returns from suspension

Carter needs just two points, the equivalent of one conversion, to overtake Andrew Mehrtens' tally of 967.

Winger Sitiveni Sivivatu is the only back to survive from the lineup in Milan, while the only forward to play consecutive weekends will be lock Tom Donnelly, who makes his fifth second-row appearance alongside veteran Brad Thorn.

While that gives New Zealand just about its strongest possible lineup, England still has about a dozen starters out injured and is set to give Ayoola Erinle his first international start out of position at inside center.

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There are three things you can be sure of when you play Fiji, or indeed any team from the South Pacific.

1. They don't pay too much attention to the set piece aspect of rugby, so it is possible to dominate them at scrum and line-out.

2. If you give them an inch in open play, they will be all over you – there is nothing that south sea islanders like more than to have ball in hand in broken play.

3. If you don't prepare to take contact properly, it is advisable to book an appointment with the chiropractor on Monday morning – big, bone-crunching tackles are a speciality.

In most respects, it looked as though Andy Robinson and his team had recognised these three points and had prepared accordingly for their encounter on Saturday.



The Scottish scrum and line-out won masses of good possession and put the Fijian scrum under real pressure; rarely did Fiji find themselves with time and space playing against a defence that was disorganised or in disarray and if anything, it was the Scots who were putting in the tackles which could be felt in the back rows of the stands.

So when you put all that together, you might have expected Scotland to run out easy winners in this, the first of their three autumn internationals, but in reality it wasn't quite as straightforward as it might have seemed.

Yes, Scotland dominated possession and territory for most of the match, but it was the lack of urgency and inability to really dictate the pace of the game that let them down.

For much of the second half, it was crying out for quick ball to be recycled and for Scotland's sizeable back three to be put into space. Instead, the only time the Lamont brothers and Simon Danielli really saw the ball was from the set piece and while that was reasonably effective, they would have been much more dangerous had they had the ball in hand more often in open play.


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