Australia's opening try against Wales in the 2007 Rugby World Cup pool game. Berrick Barnes gives an inside dummy and glides through a gap in the Wales defence, before drawing the full back and putting in Matt Giteau to score. Gareth Thomas, the Welsh full back flies in with a late shoulder charge on Berrick Barnes for his troubles.

Brian O'Driscoll scores against Namibia in Ireland's opening 2007 Rugby World Cup pool game. Receiving the ball as first receiver, the centre deftly chipped ahead, caught the ball and managed to twist his body over the line to claim the touchdown.

Bryan Habana steams in for 4 tries in South Africa's 59-7 Rugby World Cup pool game win over Samoa. Habana's two first-half tries were both brilliant solo efforts that saw him display his full array of attacking talents, stepping and weaving past would-be tacklers.

England's hopes for an easy and confidence-boosting win in the first match of their IRB Rugby World Cup defence were quickly dashed by a spirited and committed USA team at the Felix-Bollaert Stadium. Here are the tries with commentary provided by a Frenchman.

A video montage of the tries in the group game between the All Blacks and Italy. The All Blacks get off to a flying start at the 2007 Rugby World Cup and live up to their billing as favourites.

Argentina caused a huge upset in the opening match of the IRB Rugby World Cup by beating France 17-12 at the Stade de France on Friday, handing the host nation their first ever defeat in the pool stages.

If you like watching penalty kicks to a musical backdrop, you'll love this video. The man scoring Argentina's try is Ignacio Corleto who plays for Stade Francais.

I don't speak french so I'm not exactly sure of what the French commentators are saying, but it's definitely more of a case of 'sacrebleu' than 'moet' here as Imanol Harinordoquy draws his man and opts not to pass to his unmarked team-mate with the try line beckoning.

From the recent World Cup Warmup game in Marseille.

This Adidas advert called "Of this earth", tells the story of the heritage of the All Blacks and the hometowns that have produced the 1,071 players who have so far worn the famous black shirt for their country. It features the current All Blacks team as well as legends Jonah Lomu and Sir Brian Lochore.

In the ad, each player is shown standing next to a square of turf from their home field, which is transported to France in the final shot to make up a patchwork World Cup pitch.

The intricacies of The Haka, the ritual war challenge made by the All Blacks before each rugby match, are explained in this Adidas ad, called "All Blacks".

It features players including captain Richie McCaw and fly-half Daniel Carter explaining the meaning of the Maori Haka, which has been performed at the start of every All Blacks match since 1884. A traditional Maori artist was employed to make sure the animated sequences in the ad were accurate.

O2 Ireland advertisment featuring Willie John McBride, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Simon Geoghaghan, Keith Wood and Brian O'Driscoll.

"It's not who stands in front of you that's important. It's who stands behind you."