a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TBjtK63aTfI/AAAAAAAAEQE/pZIFq3DcN58/s1600/plays-of-the-week-june16th.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TBjtK63aTfI/AAAAAAAAEQE/pZIFq3DcN58/s400/plays-of-the-week-june16th.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483393318179720690" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Test match rugby was great for the teams down south this past weekend. For the north, not so much, but it was entertaining nonetheless and whether it was fatigue, injuries, or simply went according to the world rankings, it provided some great content for the Australian Rugby Club’s Plays of the Week. /spanbr /br /The New Zealand Maori played the New Zealand Barbarians in a centenary celebration game with some top quality tries, which you can a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-zealand-maori-vs-new-zealand.html"view here/a.br /br /The Maori side play Ireland this Friday, and to go with their fancy new jersey have a new looking wardance which, along with Ali-Williams-esque sound effects, is sure to have the opposition quaking in their boots.br /br /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/06/australia-overcome-england-at-subiaco.html"Australia/a beat England, a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/06/all-blacks-outclass-ireland-in-new.html"New Zealand/a thrashed a 14 man Ireland, and a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/06/springboks-thump-france-in-cape-town.html"South Africa walloped France/a as the south scored tries aplenty, once again proving that these June fixtures are often quite questionable. Then again, should the same be said about the a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html"November internationals/a? It’s a debate that rages on and only seems to be settled at the World Cup.br /br /Scotland did fly the flag for the north though, a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/06/dan-parks-and-scotland-beat-argentina.html"beating Argentina/a in Tucuman.br /br /As always, take the video with a pinch of Australian salt as once again we see that anything with Quade Cooper involved generally gets the best try award.br /br /Whether your side is winning or losing, it’s a great time to be a rugby fan as coverage couldn’t get better, there’s plenty to talk about, and you can see it all right here on Rugbydump.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/plwl_C_wd_Qamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/plwl_C_wd_Qamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span02:32/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-7180970390120346427?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=dp-T5KTs66w:8VM9PVOBT_Y:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/dp-T5KTs66w" height="1" width="1"/ More...