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I've said this before but I am sure Schmidt was appointed purely to try to build a team and game plan that is competitive against the Lions. I'd normally be largely on board with TomThumb's thinking, but these are not normal times. The start of his tenure was a line in the sand and we need to...

In fairness the mungoes were paying his full school fees, and had him on a professional contract. There have been plenty of other examples of kids on pro contracts being able to play sports outside the curriculum - golf, tennis, sailing are a few, plus Hugh Bowman as an apprentice jockey. Also...

You might get a bit of pushback from a few of our Southern NSW friends on this.

That's pretty normal for us, or vice versa. I'm not saying it should be, but I'm not judging the coach on it. FWIW I think it's pretty clear that Schmidt's coaching brief is all about the Lions tour in 2025, sure we shouldn't normally accept as much collateral damage on the way there but we...

What is the difference between Super Rugby Pacific 2024 and Super Rugby Pacific 2024?

Gee I'm glad I dropped in here for a look at what's happening in 2025 and landed 3 pages back.......

Is he still quick enough for a 10?

That’s good, well done to the reds intern

Yes, I said I wasn’t going to criticize him. If you do what the officials did (and me initially) and ignore the late and illegal hit from cane it was a shit kick. Once you factor that in it was a rehearsed play that should have ended better than it did. I am surprised the commentators and...

I just watched it again and you are 100% correct. So now it’s apologies to Noah Lolesio and I am not going to criticize Paisami with my newly amended post.

Apologies to Tom Wright, it was Lolesio. Minute 52, it was the next 10 minutes the ABs scored 2 tries. I have amended my original post.

I think it’s because everyone has been taught a rush defense system but we are going back to Laurie’s 1950s system and it’s against all the players’ natural instincts. It could prove to be a master stroke but it certainly isn’t working at the moment.

I put this on the Wobs24 thread, i think he is earmarked as our solution at 12. And I agree, there is no value at putting him on the wing if this is the case. He’s being paid a fortune so to start with just put him in the Aus A side in whatever position they want him to play, he’ll probably...

It’s academic anyway, but I think it’s safe to assume that if he continued on the same trajectory if he was still at the Brumbies before being let go by the Waratahs he would be somewhere around the squad. Certainly wouldn’t say he’d be a walk in though, agree we are pretty well stocked in that...

Sure, and Valetini would have some pretty good attack stats as well. I just mentioned the skew in their roles as a point of differentiation as a lot of pundits claim they don’t work well together as they play similar roles.

I have just watched the replay, I thought we were pretty good for 55 minutes. Even the other 25 minutes wasn’t that bad, we let 2 tries in and obviously the defensive system is an issue, but is that because it’s the wrong system, or just that they haven’t fully adapted to it yet? There was...

I agree in part. If 12 is to be his position I don't see any point in fucking about and playing him on the wing (I know, that was Wilson not you, but it seems to be the consensus). Just throw him in there for the Aus A games to learn the role properly from there, that's what the team is there for.

For sure, they aren't going to pay someone that much money and not bring him into the system straight away. Even if he only plays in the A team they will want to invest in his ability now to have him ready for the Lions. I am tipping he will be our 12 and I don't think it will take him long to...

I can add one thing of value, Joseph Sua'ali'i is now available for selection.

I had year 12 social commitments, had the game going on a phone in the background but can't really add anything of value this week aside from a screenshot of the messages my other son was sending me. On the road today, home alone tonight so will try to watch the replay then, if the lure of the...