So it all starts this weekend. Personally can't see past a New Zealand vs Australia final but let's hope our lads can spring a surprise.

Predictions for the weekend:

England 42-10 Wales
New Zealand 10-22 Australia

England 54 Wales 4
New Zealand 12 Australia 34

England/Australia/New Zealand 30-12 Wales

Australia 30-26 New Zealand

Don't you start as well.

ENGLAND 36-4 Wales
Australia 28-12 New Zealand

Me, Brum and HL all pretty close with the Aus vs NZ score, HL especially so!

Me, Brum and HL also pretty close with the England/Wales score! Genius!

Wales 0-52 New Zealand
England 10-38 Australia

Have your tickets turned up yet HL?

Wales 6 NZ 60
England 12 Australia 34

Wales 6-56 New Zealand
England 18-32 Australia

Yes, tickets finally arrived.

So there was never a problem then.

After the ticketing farce in Avignon, HL will never see any problem with the RFL again!

That ref was an absolute joke, how someone so incompetent can get a game of that magnitude is beyond me. Why didn't he go to the screen for our double movement try? It's never been double movement! Yet on Australia's last try he used the video ref. It stinks. There's no way their lad should've stayed on the pitch after that high tackle either, and they threw the first punch in the fight and got no punishment.

I think England will beat New Zealand next week and having been to the game yesterday, I firmly believe Australia are beatable in the final.

Anyway predictions for this week:

Wales 4-56 Australia (they'll rest a few)
England 32-26 New Zealand

Wales 0-66 Australia
England 18-26 New Zealand

Thought we played really well,The Aussies are clinical and looked like scoring everytime they were near our line,The only chance you have of beating them is if you play to your ultimate best and get favourable refereing decisions,We got the rough end of th stick,The ref was a bit naive,Got key decisions wrong and the scoreline flattered the Aussies in the end,Australia probably deserved to just nick it but it wasn't a 16 point margin win,If we play like that we should beat the Kiwis,England are so inconsistent you dont know how they will perform though from one week to the next.Thought rangi Chase was a bit poor,Expecting a big game from the yorkshireman chase next week.

Will Rangi Chase join in with the Haka?!

Is Rangi Chase related to our scrum half Roger Chase?

England 22 NZ 18
Wales 4 Australia 68

As good as we've been in this tournament, the fact still remains that, to beat the Aussies, we would have to be outstanding and they would have to be considerably below par. We would also need the bounce of the ball, the rub of the green and a couple of refereeing decisions. I've got my ticket though and I can't wait to hopefully roar the lads on to victory.

England 18-38 Australia.

(Hope I'm wrong).

England 14 Australia 42

ENGLAND 14-12 AUSTRALIA

They're just better aren't they.

Sadly, Yes.

Very much so.