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The line on sportsbet opened at 20.5 point on monday. By tuesday it dropped to 17.5 and its back up to 18.5 as of right now. Suggests punters liked australia at the initial line and its leveled out at 18.5. Half time line has been oscillating between 8.5 and 9.5. After last week you'd have to...

Agree with this. Also i think Faessler has been pretty good in that run on hooker role (dare i say developing nicely) and i havent seen enough from BPA at this point to say he deserves to replace him

3. Wilson 2. McReight 1. Wright

Just watched the game. Might give my overall thoughts on our performance tomorrow cause im drunk and tired. For now ill just say this; the game was entertaining and the fact that game went down to the wire was a real credit to our players. I put $400 on the all blacks to beat the line which at...

Yeh i feel the same about swain.. really good prospect that was kind of discarded a few years back after getting red carded against england. Seems to have the ingredients of a test lock - big and abrasive. Seems to have taken a step back since he left the squad..i might be wrong but i thought he...

Nah they dropped a shit load of pill... including one about 5 metres from the line and one over the line. I think in contact we seemed to have better handling but we really struggled in the air. Schmidt suggested that the wind was making it hard for the players to track the ball

There does seem to be natural instinct on here to pile on Lolesio and blame him for the failings of the team. His performance was a mixed bag for me, consistent with the performance of the team in general. He definitely should be given some credit for steering the ship in rough conditions. Still...

It actually kind of amazing that we snuck a win despite fucking up pretty much every restart and knocking on about 8 up and unders in our half. If we can tidy up those parts moving forward we make life a lot easier for ourselves. As always the team had me pulling my hair out at times, but for...

Fuck it feels good to win. The perfect fathers day gift. Going to enjoy the day and give my full thoughts later and just savoir the moment for now.

I think this is pretty close to what we'll see, although I'm not sure what 9/10 will start. I would have thought we'll see Gordon/Lolesio starting if they are both fit.

Yeh my first guess was that Tom Robertson is most likely just there to pack down in the opposition scrum at training. Unlikely he'll play

Despite the result im not too down on the team...in the end the boks experience off the bench was the difference, which i expected, but we toiled hard and were in the contest. Its all we can ask given we are a team building from scratch against the best team in the world. Major positives for me...

I thought noah played ok honestly...reflected by the fact that schmidt kept him on the field until the last 10 mins.

What a shit take...this bok starting team has a similar level of experience to our starting team. I thought we showed good competitiveness for the full 80 mins. In fact the boks point of difference was their more experienced players, in particular kolbe. There's a lot of experience coming off...

Kailea has definitely got potential, just needs more experience. If im not wrong it was a rookie slipper that was part of the front row that was decimated by england at home all those many years ago. Look at the test career he's had. The boks starting props last week were aged 33 / 32 /...

Well to be fair to Schidt and the squad this B team the Boks have named has more caps on its bench that we had in our entire starting 15 last week. In fact, the starting team they have named this week has about the same amount of caps as the starting team we named last week. That is just the...

I assume Tizzano will stay and Uru will replace Reimer on the bench. If we are going to hold on to the ball a bit more in this game i think a guy like Uru offers more off the bench than reimer. Plus if the first game is anything to go by the only real positive for us was that the boks did...

Honestly I can see why Schmidt would bring in Sam Carter ahead of a guy like Darcy Swain who at least has a bit of mongrel in him. I can only assume it's cause swain isn't match fit?

I think we'll see Blyth, Hooper and Uru all come into the 23. The big problem for us is it's just not possible to get the scrum to where it needs to be in 7 days. This is boks team at the peak of their powers against an experienced wallaby pack missing guys like Tupou, BPA and Bell...

I yeh I don't disagree, I just mean if you were going to replace Noah I'd prefer not to see Lynagh brought into the start side this year ideally.