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That's better from Donaldson

McReight having a field day out there

Pleasantly surprised

Not looking forward to seeing us try and defend the maul here

Feel bad for Donaldson, everything he does is looking pretty ugly now. He might have got in his head after the early poor kicks

Ikitau has helped, but I think it's the pace we're playing with that's unlocking the attack. It's taking the sting out of the defence and we've really found our rhythm.

Loving the pace we're playing with, McDermott well and truly in his element.

I agree, we have a recent history of playing dumb, particularly against teams we should beat. Good to see it changing

Paisami is having a great time out there

Donaldson is not having a great day with the boot

Lots of players knowing their role and nailing it in that play

Slick work there

Wilkin is probably the first one I'd call into the squad as actual cover. For mine he's more complete and "test ready" than the rest, and is good enough in the lineout he could probably play at 6 off the bench (though wouldn't be my first choice there). After that it's a bit of a flat list of...

Looking like this is going to get ugly.

I wonder what sort of ratings they were expecting and got here. I doubt it would've been much, starting at 10:40 on a Friday night, but it could be an avenue to getting a bit more FTA exposure each week for super rugby. Having a Friday night game replayed each week on Nine after the NRL could...

I thought he played well, but I don't think it was as much as a 7 as it was as a generic backrow, or that he's a realistic option at 7 in test matches. At least i wouldn't be running him (or T.Hooper/Gleeson) there without significant changes to our gameplan. I do think we're about to see out...

The one thing counting against him there is that if Wright is out injured Schmidt may want to bring in another option as backup 7. I'd have Uru ahead of Gleeson in a heartbeat though. Leota's fitness is probably a factor there too, but with another match against Tonga next week Uru gets...

Great showing from O'Connor last night. There has been a bit of talk that he was playing for his contract for next year, if that's the case I'd have the lawyers drafting it first thing on Monday morning. He clearly still has plenty to offer, both pulling the strings on field as a playmaker and...

If he puts in another performance against Tonga like the one he did last night I wouldn't be surprised to see O'Connor called up to the Wallabies squad. I wouldn't be looking at him for much beyond a bench role at this stage, put he was very slick last night with ball in hand and nailed all his...

Oh, I don't think Ryan did too poorly, it was probably more Aubrey who got found out. Admittedly it wasn't so much the game for him as the smallest man in a small backline. If Anderson had signed a couple of weeks earlier he probably would have started ahead of him.