"The opinion in Britain was that we should not have been allowed into the competition at all. Everyone was expecting us to be useless. We worked on the basics especially defence."

- New Italy coach Brad Johnstone enjoys the Italians' historic victory over Scotland in Rome.

"It is to England's credit that they managed to make a bad side look bad."

- Former Springbok World Cup winning captain Francois Pienaar doesn't mince his words in describing England's thrashing of Ireland at Twickenham.