In his latest BBC Sport column, Wales centre Hadleigh Parkes reveals why team-mates have been calling him Robocop after the dramatic World Cup win over Australia, discusses what the squad have been up to in Otsu and looks ahead to Wednesday's match against Fiji.

You may have noticed I've been strapped up quite a lot recently to help with different injuries, so the boys have been giving me stick, saying I look like Robocop.

I've got my right hand, my right forearm, my left elbow and my left bicep all strapped up, so it's ridiculous how much tape I'm using at the moment.

I want to get rid of it because I'm starting to look like half man, half tape.

But the main thing is that it helped me get through our game against Australia last Sunday, and to get the win was awesome.

I'd broken a bone in my hand in our first game against Georgia and the hand was pretty tender after the Wallabies game, but it didn't affect me too much.

Our medical team is one of the best there is, led by Prav Mathema. I'm seeing them every day, talking to them every day, and they're looking after me really well.

The hand is no worse than it was and it's actually moving quite well.

It's amazing what the body and mind can do when you've got an injury.

Say you break something and you don't use it for six weeks, you're just waiting in your cast and trying to leave it alone.

But when you use your body when it's injured, you get accustomed to it and your headspace gets better and better. I don't feel it as much any more.

Getting stick for my try

Australia was a big game for us and a big game for the Wallabies as well.

We've been on the end of some narrow defeats against them over the years, but the last couple of times we've managed to get the win.

It was nice to get a try but the boys have been giving me a bit of stick for that too, saying they have no idea how I outjumped Marika Koroibete.

With a penalty advantage you've got a shot to nothing but also you want to make a team pay. Luckily I was on the wing and Biggsy [Dan Biggar] put in a great kick and I somehow managed to grab hold of it.

Our start was superb - Biggsy with the drop-goal after Ken Owens and Aaron Wainwright did really well at the breakdown, and then the try.

The second half got a bit tense but everyone put a huge shift in and it's just great to get two wins from two.

I don't know if there's been a change of mindset but something I've always been told is that Wales are slow starters in tournaments and then build their way into it.

But you don't want to be stuck in that pattern, chasing the pack.

In this tournament, we had Georgia first. They're a tough team but we started well and had the bonus point before half-time.

Then in the Australia game, they'd had a longer turnaround than us and they're a team that can score points, so you have to have that mindset that you're going to outscore them, not just defend.

To be two from two is good - but ultimately we want to be four from four.

We've put ourselves in a good position, so let's make the most of that to top our pool and keep building momentum.

And we're not losing sight of the threat that Fiji will bring when we face them on Wednesday.

There's talent across that backline and they're big, physical men with a pretty impressive skillset.

We watched them beat Georgia and we know it's going to be a very tough challenge, but we're looking forward to it because that's what you need - these tough games before what will be tough games hopefully later in the tournament.

Japanese culture trip continues

The day after we beat Australia, we travelled from Tokyo to Otsu, where we've been having a bit of downtime.

It's totally different to Tokyo. I think it would have been extremely dangerous if we'd had three days off in Tokyo!

I'd always heard it was busy and it was - people everywhere, a fast pace of life, good food, everyone extremely friendly, and it's relatively easy to get around too.

We found some nice places to eat and some good coffee shops, which regular readers of this column will know is very important for the boys.

When it came to finding those places, it was Jonathan Davies taking the lead again. He follows a load of accounts on Instagram, writes down what he likes and then ticks them off when we visit them.

I think that's a really good way to travel, especially when you go to places you don't know.

Then, at the other end of the scale, there's Otsu.

We had a few days off when we got here, which was needed after two tough first games against Georgia and Australia and a short turnaround in between.

It has been nice here in Otsu, where our hotel looks over the lake and the people have been really friendly.

The days off were quite lazy. A few of us went fishing, which was fun. I'm more of a sea fisherman usually but we managed to catch a few small ones.

The sun was out so the tops were off - I'm always working on that tan!

We went to Kyoto one day too, so it was interesting to check out the history, the temples and gardens and stuff like that.

It's been a nice, chilled few days and nice to get away from the big city - but we're here to do a job.

On Friday, we were back to it in training, and we were looking at it like a Monday, the start of a Test week building up to Wednesday's match against Fiji.

Hadleigh Parkes was speaking to BBC Sport Wales' Dafydd Pritchard.

England face Argentina at the World Cup on Saturday with a quarter-final place at stake - and, four years after being knocked out in the group stage, the official line from the England camp in Japan is clear: take nothing for granted.

England's World Cup tilt has so far resembled an old-school computer game. A breeze through the first two levels, a tougher one next, a harder one still beyond.

Fight through all seven in seven weeks and the greatest prize in the sport will be theirs, but no-one in the camp is daring - publicly at least - to look any further than Argentina.

If that is a sensible PR strategy, it doesn't necessarily match that of their support. England have not lost to Argentina in a decade. The Pumas were on a run of 10 consecutive defeats - the worst trot in their illustrious history - before last week's win over Tonga.

Beat Mario Ledesma's men once again here in Tokyo on Saturday afternoon and England will have qualified for the quarter-finals.

"Argentina are a very passionate nation, and they play with their hearts on their sleeves," England skipper Owen Farrell told BBC 5 Live.

"They have a lot of emotion, they're renowned for their scrummaging and they have backs who can win the ball in the air and create things out of nothing. We're going to have to be at the top of our game.

"They seem to play their best rugby at World Cups. The Jaguares playing so well in Super Rugby this year [the Buenos Aires-based side reached the final] has obviously put them in good stead coming into this one, and when the majority of your team play together week-in, week-out, it's got to be a good thing."

Head coach Eddie Jones has once again opted to pick Farrell at inside centre with his old friend George Ford starting at 10.

With the line-up the same as the one that took Ireland apart in their World Cup warm-up game, bar the addition of Anthony Watson on the wing, it is a settled look for England, Tom Curry and Sam Underhill once again paired in the back row as Jones looks for quick ball and a fast-tempo game.

England have never lost to Argentina at a World Cup, with Ben Youngs - who will become the third most capped England men's player with his 92nd game at scrum-half - the try scorer when his side battled to an unconvincing 13-9 win in Dunedin eight years ago.

Jones said: "We believe that Ford and Farrell is the right way to go at the moment, but we've got other options, which is a great thing for us.

"You've got to be flexible in your plans. We had our World Cup squad pencilled in three years ago, and each week we've changed it and upgraded it, but we feel like we've got the squad of players here to represent England, and that they're going to play with a lot of passion and pride and brutality.

"You play against Argentina and they base their game on the scrum. It's the manhood of their approach - you've got to take them on up front, in the scrum, in the maul and at the ruck, that's where it's going to be won.

"I think they were unlucky to lose to France. The stats suggest they should have won the game, so we've the greatest respect for Argentina.

"We've worked hard on it and worked hard on creating training situations to handle situations. It's like a tea bag - you don't know how good it is until you put it in the water."

Jones has opted for a front row of Joe Marler, Jamie George and Kyle Sinckler and a second row combination of Saracens duo Maro Itoje and George Kruis for a match Argentina replacement hooker Agustin Creevy has predicted will be "like a war".

Winger Jack Nowell and prop Mako Vunipola have been selected on the replacements' bench for the first time in the tournament after recovering from long-term injuries, with late squad bolter Lewis Ludlam also getting the nod.

The exclusion of Mark Wilson, one of England's most impressive performers over the past 12 months, is the main surprise, meaning that if anything were to happen to Billy Vunipola, there is no specialist number eight to take his place.

Both Vunipola and Wilson made their England debuts against the Pumas, as did Curry, Underhill and winger Jonny May.

Jones is expecting Argentina to turn back the clock 12 years and revert to the gameplan that got Ledesma and his team-mates all the way to the last four of that tournament, where they were beaten by eventual world champions South Africa.

Jones said: "They've always had a strong forward pack, and they've changed their approach a little bit to be more of a phase team, and selecting a left-footer at 10 suggests they're going to play a high-kicking game.

"They were brilliant in 2007. I can remember being with the South African team that met them in the semi-final, and they were a tough team to beat. But like any side they have weaknesses, and we intend to expose those weaknesses."

Should England win, a victory over France in their final group game in a week's team could set up a quarter-final with Wales in Oita, with three-time champions New Zealand the possible semi-final match-up.

Argentina must win to have any hope at all. It is why Ledesma is calling Saturday's game his own side's World Cup final. Game over is never far away when the stakes are this high.

'A game England can lose' - Analysis

Former England fly-half Paul Grayson

I don't see Argentina coming up with a full-field gameplan like they did in 2015 which can catch England by surprise.

I think England have got a better 23 when they go head to head. It strikes me as a game England can lose, not Argentina can win.

That dynamic of how emotional the Argentines are… we see tears in the national anthem when they're playing Tonga. They're odds on to win but they're still getting to that fever pitch, first 20 minutes game done and then that emotion tails away.

Against England, Agustin Creevy will become the most-capped Argentine player in history, you can see them wrapping that up as part of their emotional build-up to the game.

If England are undercooked and Argentina hit the heights they are capable of when they are emotionally at it, it could be tricky for England.

Both 23-man squads, match them up in a joined-up team and you are going to pick a lot of England players.

They need to be emotionally charged and ready to play, but there's no doubt if England play anywhere near their best they should put Argentina away.

Teams

England: Daly; Watson, Tuilagi, Farrell, May; Ford, B Youngs; Marler, George, Sinckler, Itoje, Kruis, Curry, Underhill, B Vunipola.

Replacements: Cowan-Dickie, M Vunipola, Cole, Lawes, Ludlam, Heinz, Slade, Nowell.

Argentina: Boffelli; Moroni, Orlando, De La Fuente, Carreras; Urdapilleta, Cubelli; Chaparro, Montoya, Figallo, Pagadizabal, Lavanini, Matera, Kremer, Desio.

Replacements: Creevy, Vivas, Medrano, Alemanno, Lezana, Ezcurra, Mensa, Delguy.

South Africa kept their World Cup hopes alive with a routine bonus-point win over Italy, who had prop Andrea Lovotti sent off for a tip-tackle.

Handre Pollard converted tries from Cheslin Kolbe and Mbongeni Mbonambi, and added a penalty to put the Springboks 17-3 up at the break.

After Lovotti was dismissed, Kolbe crossed for his second score.

Lukhanyo Am, Makazole Mapimpi, RG Snyman and Malcolm Marx also went over as South Africa went top of Pool B.

The game was over as a contest once Lovotti was dismissed by referee Wayne Barnes early in the second half for his part in picking up Springboks number eight Duane Vermeulen and dropping him headfirst to the floor.

It was the fourth red card already of this World Cup - the joint most ever in a single World Cup alongside 1995 and 1999 - while there was only one in 2015.

Two-time winners South Africa know victory in their final pool match against Canada on Tuesday (11:15 BST) is likely to be enough to secure a quarter-final berth, with Italy facing holders New Zealand in their last game on Saturday, 12 October.

Springboks come through test of nerve

Having lost 23-13 to the All Blacks in their opening match of the tournament, South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus admitted the meeting with Italy was "do or die" for his side.

But the Boks, who were one of the pre-tournament favourites, had any nerves settled by Kolbe's early try when the winger beat two men to touch down in the right-hand corner.

The contest was expected to be a battle between the forwards but Italy lost both their tight-head props, Simone Ferrari and Marco Riccioni, to injury in the first half, leading to uncontested scrums for the final hour.

Pollard missed three conversions but he set up Kolbe's second try with a cross-kick and scored 14 points on the night to become the highest points-scorer for the Springboks at the Rugby World Cup, surpassing Percy Montgomery's previous record.

South Africa pushed home their advantage after Lovotti was sent off but will have concerns over the fitness of Kolbe, who picked up an ankle injury in a tackle in the closing stages.

The Springboks will have bigger challenges to come but have kept themselves in the hunt in a bid to add to their triumphs in 1995 and 2007.

Ill discipline costs Azzurri

Italy had picked up maximum points from their first two pool games against Namibia and Canada, and knew that victory would eliminate the Springboks from the competition.

The Azzurri were unable to capitalise when they did venture into South African territory in the first half, with quick defensive line speed and powerful tackling forcing Conor O'Shea's side back.

The Six Nations outfit had only won one of their previous 14 matches against South Africa, and any chance of a comeback was extinguished when loose-head prop Lovotti was shown the red card three minutes into the second half.

Italy had been awarded a penalty in the South Africa 22 but after the whistle was blown Lovotti and fellow prop Nicola Quaglio picked up Vermeulen and dropped him - with Quaglio lucky not to also be dismissed for his part in the incident.

The game then slipped away from the Italians as veteran number eight Sergio Parisse - who won his 142nd cap, making him the second most-capped player in Test history - was unable to inspire his side.

Italy have participated in every World Cup but have never qualified for the quarter-finals and their wait for a last-eight berth is likely to go on unless they can pull off a first-ever win over New Zealand in Toyota a week on Saturday.

Teams

South Africa: Le Roux; Kolbe, Am, De Allende, Mapimpi; Pollard, De Klerk; Mtawarira, Mbonambi, Malherbe, Etzebeth, De Jager, Kolisi (capt), Du Toit, Vermeulen.

Replacements: Marx, Kitshoff, Koch, Snyman, Mostert, Louw, H Jantjies, Steyn.

Italy: Minozzi; Benvenuti, Morisi, Hayward, Campagnaro; Allan, Tebaldi; Lovotti, Bigi, Ferrari, Sisi, Budd, Steyn, Polledri, Parisse (capt).

Replacements: Zani, Quaglio, Riccioni, Zanni, Ruzza, Negri, Braley, Canna.

Red card: Lovotti (43).

Referee: Wayne Barnes (Eng).