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Congratulations all on taking this thread to 1111 pages. We have successfully fixed all of Australian Rugby’s problems many times over and I for one look forward to continuing to fix those problems until page 2222 and so on.

Forfeit? Mate this is sounding better and better to me.

Jesus that would be amazing if they didn’t.

This is going to come off as a massive gold tinted whinge but Australia’s reputation for scrummaging has been in the toilet since the first Eddie Jones reign when he, not without some basis at the time, decided to totally ignore the technical aspect of the game. This permeates in ref perception...

3 Wright 2 Lolesio 1 Faessler

I think I heard Gus say about him that his goal was always to be a Wallaby and they sold their development as being the best chance of accomplishing that.

I think they had everything needed to win bar some creativity, which France had a monopoly on yesterday.

Statement game from Lolesio. Possibly the first time I’ve seen him in gold look as confident as he does for the Brumbies and he was really able to control the game in an understated way which made it look easy for the whole team.

Yeah I have seen every single reds game of the years listed above by Phil and I had to google Nabuli because I couldn’t even remember what he looked like.

I agree but when you’ve got your arm around a dude’s neck you only need a bit of bad luck and you’re pinged. NZ were a good rugby football team today and I was behind them but jeez these commentators were whinging like the calls were outrageous and they weren’t. The Tamati obstruction was...

Lot of English people online saying how much better England were in this match as if defence and goal kicking aren’t pillars of rugby.

I think Fraser as captain. Schmidt has clearly come to the conclusion that Qlders are better natural leaders. As bad as Tupou was last match, I think the combos are working well at the moment vis a vis starting and bench. Therefore, Allan captain of the bench.

Very possible. He definitely would have gotten a chance at 10 at the time Schmidt tried Donaldson and then went back to Lolesio, if not earlier, in my view.

I have already applauded your dedication to semantics and what may have happened after his exit is unknowable. Clearly you don’t rate him as highly as I do which is subjective and I’m not interested in that debate. Have it your way though. It’s still undoubtedly a weaker pool of 10s, which is...

I doubt your doubt that he would not have started at some point this year or in the future. Regardless…

Yes sorry. I type faster than I think (very slowly).

If your point is that he didn’t start the last couple of matches last year then I can only applaud you for your dedication to semantics but respectfully I stand by my point.

Yes but my understanding is that many of the players who have signed with League in the last few months are not of that camp. Indeed those players who had their fees paid were not part of the schoolboys team for the most part is again, my understanding.

That is the weakness of my supposition above and I can’t say one way or the other. The shocking number of schoolboys having signed with League from our national u18s team is perhaps a stronger indicator that there’s not enough opportunity between club Super starters presently.

At the risk of remindling some of the most dire arguments re the optimal number of super teams, this is not what was supposed to happen - we were supposed to be in a position where the strongest players survived the full and the weaker players were subject to attrition. We’ve lost our starting...