All Blacks beat Wales 39-21; England outguns Australia 39-28; Ireland stuns S Africa 26-20

I didn't see the Irish win, but have to say that in the other two matches, all four teams played good rugby. Thoroughly enjoyed watching them.

Dont think many southerners saw that coming. Felt NH teams tackled hard (harder than what we are used to in SR) and generally dominated the ruck.

The most disappointing were the saffas, no energy nor envy. The positive side for the sh nations is that it should boost ticket sales for the rest of the series as wales, ireland and england have shown they were up for it. Eddie jones will be gloating all week.

Well played England. Eddie is one heck of a coach and seems to improve every team he runs.

Eddie Jones got fired for poor results in 2005. Ironically he has done even better since then

Whilst being an Englishman I felt the Wallabies blew it big time. Awful missed conversions and should have been up 14-0. Gave away so many penalties that England came back to 10-9 and then received a yellow for the penalty count. They must also rue that decision not to kick the penalty for a line out with about 7 minutes left.

The headline here is nonsense. The headline should have been either the England win or the Ireland win, not the expected All Blacks win over Wales.

NH teams are coming out of internationals. SH teams getting together for the first time in 8 months. No real surprises here, SA were after all beaten by Japan last year. They are much more beatable for having lost to a tier two nation.