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1430 GMT: England v Australia
1430 GMT: Scotland v Ireland
1715 GMT: Ireland v New Zealand
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606: DEBATE
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By Mark Orlovac
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"Mark, I won't be with you on your text commentary 'cos I'll be trying to keep the Eng-Aus result unknown until the highlights programme tonight. Managed to do so last week, just. If you could have a quiet word with your TV colleagues to give a bit of warning if they going to give the score during the Scotttish and Irish games, it'll be much appreciated. Good luck to Scotland, Ireland, Italy, PI's and England."
PaddyWho on 606
No worries PaddyWho, I'll let you off this once. Unfortunately my influence is not that great with those in TV so good luck with that mute button. To help you out, we'll keep the noise down here so you don't hear me.
1334: Right let's have a little look at what's coming up today - just in case you have been living under a rock for the last seven days.
At 1430 GMT, England play Australia at Twickenham in Martin Johnson's first major test as manager. Plenty of chat beforehand about the Aussie scrum and I personally can't wait to see the sides pack down for the time this afternoon. Will there be a repeat of 2005 and the World Cup quarter-final last year when England dismantled the Aussie scrum?
At the same time in Edinburgh, Scotland look to bounce back from their rather predictable defeat by the All Blacks last weekend when they take on world champions South Africa at Murrayfield. The omens do not look good. The Scots have not scored a home try for 14 months and have not beaten the Boks since 2002. Could today see a historic victory?
And if that wasn't enough, at 1715 GMT Ireland look to claim their first ever victory over New Zealand in 22 Tests when the sides meet at Croke Park. Tomas O'Leary is the surprise choice at scrum-half while New Zealand bring back their big guns including Dan Carter, Richie McCaw, Conrad Smith and Sitiveni Sivivatu.
I'm going to take you through this afternoon's action but I can't do it all on my own. I need your thoughts on the action coming up, predictions, locations of where you are watching the matches etc. Get involved via text on 81111 or here on 606, you know you want to.
1330: Afternoon all. Let's not muck about here - this is a major afternoon. England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand are all in action. On the same day. So forget the Christmas shopping and England's defeat in the Rugby League World Cup semi-final, get involved in some top level international sport of the 15-a-side variety.
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