Brian Moore
Former England hooker and BBC pundit

Scotland's first ever win v the All Blacks today or the familiar ending?

Tom Fordyce
Chief sports writer at Twickenham

Mild early winter afternoon in SW London pre England v Springboks. Home win required to give sense of team progressing rather than stalling.

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Have I been presumptuous though? Are Scottish fans convinced this is the day they will lower the All Blacks' colours? Do Wales and Ireland fans expect big wins come what may?

And what about you England supporters - confident your boys can finally win against the second best team in the world, the Springboks?

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And if Philae - the little probe that could - can get in touch from over 300m miles away to say hi from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, then you have no excuse not to put digit to keypad.

Normally you'd consider Wales and Ireland's matches to be good opportunities to chalk up morale-boosting wins, but given that Fiji beat the Welsh at the 2007 World Cup and Georgia gave Ireland an almighty scare at the same tournament, there will be a few nervous Celtic fans today.

Scottish fans wouldn't be so presumptuous as to be nervous about facing New Zealand, because they will no doubt have accepted the inevitability of their defeat already (a played 29, lost 27, drawn 2 record will do that to even the most giddily optimistic of people).

That means the most intriguing match of the weekend sees England welcome South Africa to Twickenham, and that most physical of encounters will be our main focus in the first half of the afternoon.

I write, of course, of the All Blacks, Springboks and Wallabies, perennially the top three sides in the world and back once more to show the northern hemisphere how to play rugby.

This weekend only two of the big three are in the British Isles as Australia are off playing France.

That means Scotland get the honour of facing the All Blacks and England host South Africa, while Wales and Ireland face Fiji and Georgia respectively, the latter match taking place on Sunday.

Carried in by helpful winds, every autumn we welcome distant migrants, not seen for many moons, back once more to these muddy shores.

Those from the north come to forage and slumber.

But those from the south come to pillage and plunder.

Makes the damp, dark days bearable, don't you think?