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His defensive positioning is fine but his defence not so much. Regularly in a position to make a covering tackle and regularly failing to.

There are a few decent prospects like McLaughlin-Philips.

I think ticker is the one area Tizzano is almost certainly not going to be found wanting in.

Knowing our luck we'll go a 6-2 split and immediately get three outside back injuries.

While I suppose this is the reality I think this is what people are referring to as being a bit fucked.

That said I don't really know if that is the case with the Waratahs at this point. The coaching team at least isnt old boys (and hasn't been, for the most part, in a while). Don't know much and don't really care for the back of house stuff but I thought we had a few new kiwi administrators...

I think the pejorative term refers to participants who move into coaching/administration on the basis of their involvement but don't have the competence required to actually perform those roles and are generally seen as taking a role another, perhaps less 'involved', person could perform better in.

Pretty much a full strength side.

I honestly don't get how Donaldson dodges all the criticism that gets thrown at Noah for doing the exact same shit. Blows my mind. He was awful verse Georgia.

Not sure I like any of that... Except keen to see what Toole can do.

It does seem like a grey area. They could easily address this by being prescriptive about what is 'really definitely foul play' and then letting the rest fall into the 20 minute basket i.e. by making any striking/biting/gouging a straight red.

That's damn near every ruck.

Its his lack of out and out pace for me. Agree he was good though.

This is just one tactic available. The rush defence is basically the opposite of this and has been hugely successful - though is admittedly waining a little. This involves kicking for field position and fanning out rather than committing numbers to the breakdown to ensure linespeed on defence...

But not for Japanese players.

Honestly don't think it would be much of a barrier... I just wish the availability laws took the Southern Hemisphere into account more but... well that'll never happen.

Oh I meant the latter given the limitations of the windows available to us to select players from Europe and what not.

Yeah looks like Skelton joining has been put in the too hard basket by both sides. Shame, really. Not really where test rugby is meant to be being the 'pinnacle of the game' and all that.

Dunno how much the game will open up with 7 fresh Bokke forwards coming off the bench...

Bit of a log jam out wide now - can see why the kid would move on. If Petaia doesn't leave I think he's pretty clearly not in the 23.