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There were some who thought that that the ABs shouldn't have taken the whole squad to SA for the RC game this year. After the game, I was watching the Aotearoa Rugby Pod and James Parsons talked about the value of players just spending time together, in the hotel, at the airport etc talking...

Ludicrous is thinking that players are rated on who selected them for their debut Test.

No. I said this is a team that is about the future. But it's not a serious RWC winning selection.

I actually don't care that much about who EJ (Eddie Jones) picks. As I said originally, it's his team, it's his right to select whoever he wants. Just don't tell me how the new players have 'earned it' or any other BS. Wallaby fans here know that some of the guys selected weren't even good at Super Rugby level.

Wasn’t Hooper’s non-selection based largely on his calf injury?

I hate the Crusaders. Try again. Pete Samu - the Wallabies best player in two Bledisloe Tests last year…..yeah. No. This team isn’t picked to win. And pretending that Roigard over Weber is even close to what EJ (Eddie Jones) has done here is just silly. Weber should have been selected over Findlay. LOL

I’m sure none of those teams aren’t hoping just a little but that Carter Gordon pulls a hammie in the captain’s run before their game…

Yeah...Pete Samu is old. And Gatland dropped players who were injured or retired.....so - yeah....just like EJ (Eddie Jones) :rolleyes: You can keep playing the same charade that he is and pretend that this squad was picked to win. As I said from the start, it doesn't fool any of us.

Exciting? I'd be excited if I were a Fiji, Wales or Georgia fan. I said Pete Samu - not Hodge.

As opposed to the young, proven world-class players he's selected? Some of these guys are hardly proven Super Rugby players. But Pete Samu is the first name that comes to mind.

Nah fuck that….the RWC is the pinnacle of the sport we love and EJ (Eddie Jones) is shitting all over it and trying to tell us it’s fucken roses. Disgraceful.

God, Eddie Jones is such a patronising fuck. He complains about and lambasts fans in Dunedin during an interview with Jeff Wilsin cos he says they aren’t ‘real rugby fans’ but he has the gall to stand there and say bullshit like “I’ve backed the young blokes because they earned it. Simple as...

I dunno. I go to a fight gym and there are a number of kids who do Muay Thai and Ju-Jitsu

The push against bigger, stronger kids already started to a certain extent. Kids in U12's can already get penalised if they fend too hard. It pisses me off. No-one penalises the small, quick, nippy kids for running too fast or stepping too much.

It's hard to believe that there are no rugby teams in GC with all the kiwis who live there LOL

This is where I feel for Quade. I might be wrong but he has played most of his time this year either behind a losing pack or with Nic White....usually both. I'd like to see him with the best starting pack and a 9 who gets him quick ball.

Hard to say that I 'hate' any team but the teams that I would not want to see lift the RWC this year... JAPAN ENGLAND FRANCE

I heard something very similar to this, regarding Waugh, earlier in the week when talking to someone I know who used to be very connected with Brumby rugby...you said it nicer though LOL

OK - so their allegiances are with NSW first before Australia? eg. the fear of building and creating a strong, exciting NRC is that it will detract from the Shute Shield?

I hope I am wrong but I think the ABs will run away with this game. Similar to last week, I think the Wallabies might look like they are keeping up for 20mins but could be a blow out score-line.