Tri Nations Rugby twitter wrap and Irish Magners League highlights

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Return to form revolution in rugby cheating? smug coach tries superb attack miraculous comebacks record setting Ritchie McCaw unstoppable?

Quade Cooper contract negotiations hammering in the press last minute elation last minute despair Building for the World cup? exciting youth

Radical reversal in form paranoia foot in mouth media skills aging team leaky defence odd selections Fourie du Preez critically important

That’s the Twitter summary of the Trinations, you guess which tweet applies to which team. Rearrange the words in the first tweet to suit your view.

Best newcomer Awards:

Wallabies – Curtly Beale take a bow – but not when they pass you the ball

All Blacks – Israel Dagg, Kieran Reid, almost anyone they put on the pitch

Springboks – Francois Hougaard – but did playing with geriatrics make him look good?

Team outlooks

All Blacks – futures so bright they have to wear shades

Wallabies – still building for the future – must be quite a building at this stage

Springboks – future looks All Black, very All Black

Any complaints? The tournament seems to take forever when your team is losing.

Magners League

On Irish telly:

Friday Sep 17
Ulster v Edinburgh, ML, BBC2/RTE2, 20:05
SAT SEP 18
BEN TREVISO v LEINSTER, ML, TG4, 18:05
Munster v Ospreys, ML, RTE2, 20:00

Ulster are unbeaten so far, Edinburgh can’t buy a win so Ulster look to have this in the bag but there’s nothing like a bit of desperation to turn your form around.

Leinster were a bit too Jekyll and Hyde for my liking last week , excellent for 20 minutes – bookending 60 minutes of dross. Surely this will be an extended training run though.

Munster are going up the gears, fairly dodgy looking last week but can only improve as the internationals return. The Ospreys, the glamour boys of Wales are looking for consistency but are unlikely to achieve the consistency they want against Munster at home.