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Depower the scrums, get rid of lineouts, hold the ball for 6 tackles then kick for territory. Either that or just get rid of tries all together and put some extra posts at the end of each field and revert to a kick heavy game. We’d probably have to change our squad a bit but I feel like we’d...

Sorry - I didn’t take your comment that way and didn’t mean to imply you did. My comment was just adding to your bit about his ability as a player.

I’d also add that he seems to do a lot for grassroots - from my perspective at least. I am up in CQ and over the years he has been here a bunch of times doing clinics and promos of rugby at all levels. As far as I understand most of these were done at not much more than covering his travel...

The other thing was Uru was playing almost exclusively in the row so Bryant was regularly in the 23. Will be much harder next year with a few more quality players to fit in. Agree he would be great to keep but he’d also attract interest elsewhere you’d think.

Samu Kerevi?

3. McReight 2. Pietsch 1. Tupou

This really highlights the issue with Lolesio. He is 24 now, almost 25 has 25 tests and 5/6 yrs as a super rugby player but as still don’t feel he is experienced enough to be a guiding hand to those around him. Not saying you’re wrong BTW.

To be honest I was mainly reacting to the suggestion it wouldn’t work or shouldn’t be tried. Personally I don’t agree Ikitau doesn’t have the skills to play 12 and I don’t agree either that 12 is traditionally easier for players to find their feet. That certainly hasn’t been the case in...

But I’m sure you can agree that Ikitau is likely to be capable of playing 12 so it is likely it wouldn’t be weakening two. Sometimes a player who is good in one position can be even better in another - Larkham being the perfect example. And there are plenty of guys like Roff, Mortlock, AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)...

Still plenty of years in front of him too. I can see the Reds losing at least 2-3 of their current backrow stocks at the end of this year so would be handy to have someone like him in the wings. Won’t help the couple of posters who already think Brothers have too many players in the squad feel...

I’d assume Kiss also doesn’t want to say anything that implies to Jordie the door isn’t still open. If an NFL deal doesn’t come through there wouldn’t there be a very limited number of teams World Wide who have back amounts of spare cash to spend on a player right now? Petaia may need to take a...

Haha - that is good. Worth a watch.

With regards to the defence pattern, my understanding was that one of the primary aims was to create the opportunity for a lot of dominant 2 man tackles. One thing that struck me was how many one person tackles were being made and many of them were low tackles which brought players down but...

He is clearly underdone but he still had a number of other positive involvements in the game.

Agree with most of this - although I would point out Wilson topped the tackle count last week and was second highest this week so he is pretty industrious both sides of the ball. It suggest the contact with Wilson & Valetini is more workhorse v impact. I’d also suggest that is the reason...

Have only been able to watch half the game so far (but have read the comments). Must admit I’m surprised at some of the comments re Tupou. He’s still got a fair way to go to get back to his best but I thought that was his best showing so far this year and was mostly pretty positive. Certainly...

Are you getting your players confused? You keep saying Tate. Do you mean Donaldson? Has Tate ever played 10?

I think he was saying they weren’t set up in defence early enough - which I assume leads to break downs in communication. A lot of that would have been forced, (again I assume) because they were not slowing down the play at all and also because the ABs were often reacting much quicker in...

3. McReight 2. Wilson 1. Wright

Agree Dru. Tbings to do from today … 1. get our defensive system working 2. Fix our set peice 3. Practice tip passing to players in our team