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Yeah, I remember Adam Freier talking about always being under weight and drinking gallons of water before any weigh in to try to bump it up

95kg is the weight of a modern rugby 9

Great analysis as usual

Especially when a load of these guys are from NSW

And if the wallaby structure suited him he would be there and starting, it appears the two chosen kind of play the same Donaldson is best when he plays flat at the advantage line, the other two don't

Whereas I think we need to stick and just have less changes without injury for these key roles for a while. I want to see some trust and comfort built that they know where the links are We aren't good enough to have regular changes unless injury or pure fatigue require them

To play where? blindside wing? We can assume Kellaway & Wright are bolted on, Daugunu did rather well and has a strong work rate and Marika is the goat

Yep, the back 3 has to be a functioning unit

This thread has moved into hi stupid

Shit execution is always a problem, but it is multi factorial ie a good kick, a good chase, a good clean out, some idea what to do next etc etc

OK, an attacking side has the ball just outside the 22 What other "safe" options are there other than a box kick? Truck it up and you are likely to end up turning it over You aren't going to run a backline move from there, at best you send it wide for the 13 to kick it towards the other edge...

Realistically we don't have the talent for much else I think there will be limits on free flowing offloads while he builds a base structure His kick is good, but his pressure and support play is his strengths, opposing kickers will have him in their face and lazy defensive pillars will be...

Interesting analysis from the "X"

So the same as the Welsh under Gatland

I don't see a lot of individual attacking threats in this side and not many "club" combinations to leverage "cohesion" It will be interesting to see how connected/trusting of each other they are in defence and attack

So is Tupou off the pies? I read somewhere he had gotten up to 148kg

Big step up for Jeremy Williams as well

We have been running two pods for years, our new "bits" have been adding endless no look passes with the hope of finding that soft shoulder. When they can catch the ball it can work, but usually it leaves the ball carrier wondering where his inside cleanout went, which leads to desperation...

If Gordon is really starting I think we will have him running the pigs off the edge of the ruck & being a sniping/kick chase pest around the edges while our 10 sits in the pocket out the back looking for options to bring in a second forward pod or go wider But I can't imaging a world where we...

It will be interesting to see how he does as a coach outside the Brumbies program and into a mess culturally