So Australia's forwards, led by Paul Gallen, would do well to not sit back and wait for their arrival; rather, get in their faces, rattle them, stop them off-loading (particularly Williams), encourage mistakes (without conceding penalties), and reap the benefits.
In Chicago the authorities have been systematically cutting off padlocks to stop them falling off and hurting people when the city's moveable bridges are lifted for boat traffic, while in Berlin leaving a love lock is now punishable by a fine after rust damage was noted on two of its bridges.
But that did not stop them from pulling off their second significant trade of the week last night.
A credible firewall from the European Central Bank (and possibly the International Monetary Fund) would stop them.But staving off contagion is not enough.
JUDI DENCH, playing Iris Murdoch, is crouched forward on a windy beach, placing pebbles on some pages torn from a notebook in order to stop them from flying off in the coastal gusts.
We need to reclaim this, and stop them from running off to join the radicals".
The authors recount (with grudging admiration) how nurses in rural Rajasthan outwitted the two professors' efforts to stop them skiving off work.
In the 1980s and 1990s, when Jews streamed out of the Soviet Union, their exit visas all citing Israel as their destination, Israel fought foreign governments and diaspora Jewish organisations to stop them dropping off on the way.
Since 1996 Norwegian shipping firms have enjoyed a tax regime designed to stop them steaming off to the tax havens offered by flags-of-convenience countries such as Liberia or Panama.
As Bruce Parker, the head of the National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA), an American industry group, puts it, "Why fish bodies out of the river when you can stop them jumping off the bridge?"Until last summer such views were spreading quickly.
We learned of the farm children, long ago, who had to be tied to trees to stop them falling off cliffs when the parents were away working in the fields.
