Dive! Dive! Dive!

What a game, what a result. The old ticker was deep into the red in the last ten minutes. But what a performance from the white pack.

As for the Aussies, all the pre-match hoopla and utterances were just so much smoke. When push came to shove, they bottled it and dropped it - every time.

Not since the German U-Boat manoeuvres in 1941 has Marseilles seen such repeated diving as that of the Wobblies front row this afternoon. For a minute I thought the ref was going to go the whole match getting smoke blown up his arse, but after 20 mins he seemed to have an epiphany and saw the truth and light. I would like to think he remembered the justifiable disgust and pillory of referee Andre Watson after the last RWC final. Or maybe he worked it out by himself, England had the drive, they didn't need or want to drop it.

And any game where the loose head is the Man of the Match can't be too bad. I know England didn't score a try, but it wasn't for the want of trying. A little more patience and we would have been in.

Had Australia won the game it would have been as fine an example of burglary as any in their nation's history.

Right, time for a few throat charmers, my voice needs it after a couple of hours screaming at the TV. What price an England v France semi now?