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By Tom Fordyces*
From BBC Sport’s Bruce Pope at the Millennium Stadium: “Pitch looking good after being replaced after the bug infestation, no sign of the urban fox that sneaked onto the field midweek. Crowd very grateful for the closed roof as the rain is coming down in torrents outside. Brass band and Welsh voice choir giving it all and building the atmosphere nicely.” **1421: **And the line-ups in Cardiff: Wales: James Hook (Ospreys); Leigh Halfpenny, Jamie Roberts (both Cardiff Blues), Jonathan Davies (Scarlets), Shane Williams (Ospreys); Stephen Jones (Scarlets), Gareth Cooper; Gethin Jenkins (both Blues), Matthew Rees (Scarlets), Paul James, Alun Wyn Jones (both Ospreys), Luke Charteris (Newport Gwent Dragons), Andy Powell, Martyn Williams (both Blues), Ryan Jones (Ospreys, capt).
Replacements: Huw Bennett, Duncan Jones, Jonathan Thomas (all Ospreys), Dan Lydiate (Dragons), Dwayne Peel (Sale), Andrew Bishop (Ospreys), Tom James (Blues)
**Argentina: **Horacio Agulla (Brive); Lucas Borges (Albi), Gonzalo Tiesi (Harlequins), Martin Rodriguez (Rosario), Mauro Comuzzi (Pucara); Santiago Fernandez (Hindu), Agustin Figuerola (CASI); Rodrigo Roncero (Stade Francais), Mario Ledesma (Clermont Auvergne), Martin Scelzo (Clermont Auvergne), Mariano Sambucetti (Bristol), Patricio Albacete (Toulouse), Tomas Leonardi (San Isidro), Alejandro Abadie (Rovigo), Juan Fernandez Lobbe (Toulon, capt).
Replacements:Alberto Vernet Basualdo (Toulouse), Marcos Ayerza (Leicester), Manuel Carizza (Biarritz), Alejandro Campos (Montauban), Alfredo Lalanne (London Irish), Benjamin Urdapilleta (CUBA), Horacio San Martin (Tala).
**1420: **A reminder of our teams at Twickenham: England: Cueto (Sale); Banahan (Bath), Hipkiss (Leicester), Erinle (Biarritz), Monye (Harlequins); Wilkinson (Toulon), Hodgson (London Irish); Payne (Wasps), Hartley (Northampton), Bell (Bath), Shaw (Wasps), Borthwick (Saracens, capt), Worsley (Wasps), Moody (Leicester), Haskell (Stade Francais).
Replacements: Thompson (Brive), Wilson (Bath), Deacon (Leicester), Croft (Leicester), Care (Harlequins), Geraghty (Northampton), Tait (Sale).
New Zealand: Muliaina; Guildford, C Smith, Nonu, Sivivatu; Carter, Cowan; Woodcock, Hore, Franks; Thorn, Donnelly, Thomson, McCaw (capt), Read.
Replacements: De Malmanche, Afoa, Boric, Kaino, Ellis, Donald, Ellison.
**1413: **From Cricketing_stargazer on 606: “Argentina will edge Wales, Ireland will swamp Fiji and Australia will run up the sort of score that Rickie Ponting would be happy with against Scotland. England were awful last week, but they did win and they can’t play that badly again against a New Zealand side in transition.”**1411: **This from Martin Johnson in the TwickTunnel: “We want to go and play - we’ve been as frustrated as anyone else. Conditions are pretty good at the moment - we’ve got a plan, and now we’ve got to execute it. what we’ve gone through in the last two weeks has been pretty tough at times but the team has responded very well.”**From BBC Sport’s Bryn Palmer **onTwitter: “Trains 2 Twickers horribly rammed. wd it b too much 2 xpect an increased service rather than reduced on match days like this” 1357: Wales too could do with a lift after that squeaky win over Samoa the other night. For a while last Friday, it looked as if autumn might be a season of misses and yellow fruitlessness for Warren Gatland’s men. 1350: Predictions for the arvo’s scores Feel free to throw some thoughts over via606, text andTwitter.Interesting team selection from Martin Johnson, of course - still in shock after that woeful first half against Argentina and the Wallabies walloping that preceded it, he’s decided to erect the rugby equivalent of the Maginot Line across the Twickenham turf. And we all know how effective the original was it came to a proper ding-dong. Will Ayoola Erinle play the role of Belgium For his sake, you’d better hope not.
1345: *So then. You might notice that there’s an extra ‘s’ on the surname today. It’s not an error, simply a reflection of the fact that there’s so much rugby for me to watch and commentate on this afternoon that I’ve had to clone myself.
One of me will be viewing England v the All Blacks at Twickenham, another the rumblefest that is Wales-Argentina, and the final clone Italy v South Africa. Then, after a short break when all three will grab a cup of tea, Original Me will watch Scotland v Australia, Clone 1 concentrate on Ireland v Fiji and Clone 2 bob around in the background trying to look useful.