Rugby

Terribly sad re Doddie but at least he's no longer suffering, it truly is an awful disease.

Re the Boks v England game I really enjoyed it, SA demonstrated their depth and once again exposed a weak England pack and KLA showed how bizzare it was to go for 26 mins of Henry Arundel over him on the World breakthrough shortlist.

Take aways for England though:

• Jonny Hill should be dropped indefinitely, he's got to be the most brainless international player.
  -The obsession with Manu should stop, if he's no longer big what is the point?
  
• It's time England admit that Farrell has never been their best 10 or 12 in his 100 caps and he's not the answer, he might be the most competitive player on the planet but he's so limited.
  
• If they can't move on from Farrell then they can't play him with Smith. Really they should have backed Ford this last decade with an actual 12 outside him but that ship has sailed.
  
• There's a serious lack of talent in the tight 5 and Curry and Itoje have been playing on reputation not form since the WC.
  
• Despite all that I still think they'll get to a WC semi at worst next year.