They'll be crying in the valleys that's for sure after the Welsh suffered a shock 34-38 loss to Fiji to miss out on what everyone expected as a quarter-final against South Africa.
Obviously they're crying for blood back home and I don't know if coach Gareth Jenkins even
made it on the bus back from the game before getting his marching orders. It's sad because coaches always try to do their best and sometimes you need to take a step back and figure out what exactly did go wrong.
If the team plays badly the coach is out, yet if the team plays well the players are the ones that get all the wraps - it doesn't seem fair really.
But good on the Fijians - I don't know if anyone with their heart or head would've picked them to win.
And they deserved it too. If you let a team like that run you land yourself in trouble, then they build in confidence and passes that usually go to ground start to stick.
Of course it's the same thing with Ireland and they'll be drowning their sorrows in Guinness I suppose.
Then you have a third Six Nations team gone in Italy to leave the balance as 5-3 in favour of the Southern Hemisphere over their Northern rivals, and with the quarter-final line-up you'd probably bet on all three going out this weekend.
I wouldn't read much into the All Blacks result as it was less than a full strength side out against Romania and if you look at South Africa, they struggled against the United States as well.
However, one thing that was interesting was the late naming of Luke McAlister to play first five eighth in the wake of Dan Carter's calf injury.
If anything further happened to Carter and he missed any more games, what would we do? It wouldn't likely be a five eighth combination McAlister and Aaron Mauger so it seemed a bit strange to play McAlister at no 10.
What I'm saying is that if Carter got hurt, you'd have to have Evans at first five to kick goals, so it was strange to see him at fullback.
