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A lighter look at Rugby World Cup 2011. Numbers 14 - Juan de Jongh (RSA) needs on average only 14 minutes to produce a try, making him the most effective try scorer at RWC 2011. He has not been selected to face Samoa on Friday. 48 - South Africa lead RWC 2011 in offloads. They have made twice as many as Friday's opponents Samoa (24). 138 - Ruan Pienaar (RSA) needs on average only 138 seconds to produce a point, making him the most effective points scorer at the 2011 RWC. He has not been selected to face Samoa on Friday. He said it ... "There is a lot of emotion around it. I actually said to the players that they need to do whatever they need to do to get themselves ready for this game - and if it means taking it out on me and my English roots then they could do that." - Scotland coach Andy Robinson, born and bred in England, puts personal pride aside for the sake of the Scots' future at RWC 2011. Franks boys pack a lunch Brothers and prop forwards Owen and Ben Franks faced a different sort of grilling at a New Zealand press conference on Wednesday when they were asked whether they still pack their own lunches. "Every now and then, sometimes in the morning," said Ben, apparently not willing to risk going hungry during the tournament. "The All Blacks take care of us but I'm paranoid. I still pack a little lunch sometimes just in case. And I don't trust Owen to cook my food either." Front-line chatter New Zealand scrum half Andrew Ellis says hooker Andrew Hore talks a good game. "Horey is always quite good fun in the front row packing down chatting away to the other front row with his witty wee comments. We always have a wee chuckle," Ellis said. "But apart from him, there's not a hell of a lot of chat." Ellis also offered an insight into touring with the Franks brothers, revealing: "They sit in front of us on the bus and we're always chuckling away.  They've often got their iPhones and they're watching clips on YouTube of people power cleaning. They are beautiful men mate, they are beautiful men. "I grew up playing age-grade rugby with Ben and he always wanted to be a rugby player and I don't know anyone who works harder than the two of them. And they are gentlemen off the track. As I say, beautiful men." Muscle Mass Magazine tells us power cleaning is an exercise that develops the trapezius, spinal erectors and most middle back muscles. "That shows how dedicated and passionate they are," Ellis said. Digby's riding high Australian wing Digby Ioane put the thumb he broke during his side's opening 32-6 win over Italy through an unusual fitness test this week. The Wallabies' three-quarter ace and teammate Will Genia went horse riding in Hanmer Springs and he looks like he is back on the trail headed for the last eight. Just call me Al Alastair Kellock, back at the helm of the Scotland XV after missing the past two RWC games, must have thought he had been away too long when he appeared at a press conference to announce the team to face England. A journalist mistook him for Richie Vernon, who is also returning to the line-up, at number 8. "No, I'm Al," he said, before realising that he had let slip a good chance to have some fun with the hack. Kellock, who will captain Scotland for the 10th time, will be hoping everyone at Eden Park will know him after 80 minutes against the "auld enemy" on Saturday night. Tongan's French connection Tonga captain Finau Maka has been unusually forthright on the team composition of their next opponents. Close your eyes and you would be forgiven for thinking it was a Frenchman talking. "Probably my two centres were left behind in France - Florian Fritz and Yannick Jauzion. They won the French championship last season (for Toulouse). "I think they made Vincent Clerc and Cédric Heymans and Max Médard, who scored the tries, look good, but they were the ones to do the hard work. "I would probably have (Dimitri) Yachvili at nine and (Francois) Trinh-Duc 10, Florian Fritz and Jauzion (centres), Maxim Médard and Vincent (Clerc) or Cédric Heymans (wing) and (Toulouse full back) Clément Poitrenaud (who is not in the squad) at full back." Maka, of course, has played with Toulouse in the Top 14 for the past 10 years, so maybe the French management should take some note of his opinion. Maybe not. Try-ing time for Johnson If there is one word manager Martin Johnson loathes when it comes to hacks describing England's style it is "conservative". And it was fired his way again on Thursday. "So you think scoring 10 tries is conservative?" he fumed, referring to his side's 67-3 win over Romania in their last game.