"If the English want to go on strike, they should do so during the Six Nations. Then we'll win it." - Former French great Serge Blanco offers a little emotional fodder when the Celtic cousins come across the Tricolores.

"We were getting to know each other." - New Zealand captain Todd Blackadder's tongue-in-cheek response to a 30-man brawl against Italy that almost spilled into the crowd.