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I think across the non-front row pack, Canham, LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto), Leota, Wilkin, Ekuasi and Kemeny are guaranteed to be in there and performing to Super standard comfortably. I think the coaching staff aren't sure about which 4/6 option in that next group down (Tualima, Callan, Smith or Maiava) is genuinely...

The locks dip off quite hard after the starters and we've still got issues with Hookers who can throw, but I'm not too worried about our forwards.

You definitely don't need the probably there mate

Biggest issue is probably player resourcing. Brumbies, due to a bit of luck and even better decision making have excellent group of locks in Swain, Neville, Frost and Hooper who really help enable their style of play. You couldn't reasonably expect the Tahs, whose lock division will probably...

Lots of new-ish accounts struggle with reading comprehension, I wouldn't worry about it.

There's no argument that Gordon and Donaldson alone wasn't the way to go. But if Quade had been selected it would have been based on him being the "least shit" option, rather than the clearly best one. That's an embarrassing situation for RA in general, but Quade himself moreso.

Fair enough if QC (Quade Cooper) dislikes his desire to win being questioned, I'd hate that as much as anyone else. But I don't think anyone could reasonably suggest that the form across his most recent 5 games (RC + Tour match v rebels) was anywhere close to international standard.

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I'm like 85% sure he got himself yellow carded in the last 6 or 7 minutes of the Tonga loss for losing his head well after the ball left the area.

I find it very difficult to believe that Slipper will be tossed aside. He's still very clearly number 2 ahead of the likes of Gibbon, Schoupp, Lambert and Robertson (even if he was available) Hanigan I'm not huge on, but there's generally a place for blokes like him in and around squads when...

Obviously new coach needs to come in but it will be interesting to see how Eddies' youngsters and favoured sons will be looked at by an incoming coach. There's a lot about the thinking behind a number of those selections which makes sense when removed from practical reality of the form and...

As a Scotland fan first it's not reasonable for that to the the starting point of any WOBS related issue. :p

Putting aside literally everything else about that particular game, I have a thought experiment Bernard Foley misses the final kick against Scotland in the '15 Quarter final, who had played some thoroughly average Rugby, losing comfortably to RSA, scraping a win over Samoa and getting Japan on...

I don't buy the Bath hype. They were very very deservedly 8th last year, lucky to scrape ahead of Bristol on PD, and the Falcons and Cherry & Whites were both pretty darn woeful. Du Toit and Russell are also the only pick ups of note they've made.

Leagues were not a thing in England until the late 80s: there was a very very anti-13 man game sentiment, thinking that creating leagues was a guaranteed pathway to both "dirty" rugby (after all, if winning actually matters, people might go too far!) and professionalism in general: hence mostly...

Richard Cockerill might be worth a shout. Bit risky in general, but would be available and with no qualms about running a bulldozer over the establishment.

My feeling is that you need someone who is completely disconnected from the Australian Rugby scene, and ideally with enough backing to completely ignore any requests of the establishment other than on field performance. Anything else will be more of the same of the past 15 years with a "not...

What type of person whose worked hard to create a successful record for themselves already would take on a job with explicit performance based returns (other than your stock standard bonuses) without creating insane financial incentives?