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I think the ARU should offer a free year of junior rugby to the kids of all recent immigrants. Half price for the second year and by the third year hope the kid will want to keep playing enough that the parents will pay.

I still think Felsman would be a good signing for the EPS - the force need more pace in the backs. Also any news on if Charles has accepted the Waratahs offer?

Force recruiters must be reading GAGR - Prior and Holmes signed on for next season. I wonder who this high profile outside back could be? Lachie Turner? Cooper Vuna? James O'Connor?

You also kill the second kicking option from 12 which is something the brumbies and reds have both utilised this year. (force have as well if you want to include godwin in this discussion) I just fear McCabe running upright and getting gang tackled by the lions forwards. Australia will have a...

Does having more opportunity simply make you a better player though? Lance is 2 years younger, and has done as much has McCabe has at super rugby level. I think it would be silly to debut lance against the Lions, but no sillier that making Pat McCabe a starting player in a world cup year.

You kill any chance of enterprising first phase attack with McCabe at 12. I'd still have Tapuai over him. But I get where you are going with the team. I think in an ideal world it would be Cooper and Beale, but Beale has squandered his chance and Lilo deserves it more at the moment. The only...

Back 3 combination is a bit of selection headache. In an ideal world I'd have Ioane and JOC (James O'Connor) on the wings with Beale at the back. If Ioane is out I'd replace him with Mitchell, and then Tomane. If JOC (James O'Connor) is out I'd replace him with Speight or Folau. The forgotten men are the big lads Shipperly...

Can the moggster defend at 10 though? Can Folau for that matter?

His comment is obviously aimed at Deans playing Cooper at 10 in defence in test matches. No one denies Cooper is not a strong defender.

Hypothetically, if the wallabies were going to go with QC (Quade Cooper) at 10, who would you have at full back? Keeping in mind they have to be an excellent defender both in the line and at the back, good under the highball and able to inject themselves out wide. In the past I would have said barnes, but...

Great win for the reds. I'm still smiling 6 hours later. Quades first 5 or so touches were horrible, but the team stuck to the game plan and kept giving him chances and he repaid the favour later in the game. Good on McKenzie for saying what he has. IMHO If you pick Cooper for Australia you...

Thats pretty debatable. I'd have PAE over Murphy but not henderson. The guy can hardly pack a scrum without one hand on the ground. I doubt its the rebels fault manu isnt playing for them. I reckon he left on his own accord after getting a better offer.

The fact that the brumbies have unearthed a second choice front row that it better than the rebels first choice one is testament to the value that astute recruitment can add to a team.

Jones aludes to Deans and Smith having beef in the past? This situation is fucking unbelievable. The ARU are willing to go out on a limb to keep Barnes around for the lions tour but when it comes to a modern great like Smith he's all of a sudden not worth the hassle.

No ones asking him to captain the wallabies. He brings a lot to the team at lineout time and equips himself well enough around the rest of the field. That's more than can be said than for most of the blokes who have played 6 or 8 for the wallabies in the last few years.

The thing that annoys me most about this Wallaby squad is that it took Deans so fucking long to make obvious decisions. Mowen and Auela should have been there last year. More locks should have been blooded last year. Tapuai should have been at 12 all of last year. It's like when it took him...

I think after watching the brumbies game I would still go with Tapuai at 12 for his footwork in the tight, but I would definitely have Lilo on the bench covering 10/12 It is criminal that Smith is not in the wallaby squad. Shame that speight is not eligible because he is better than tomane...

It didn't work it just created another problem. And before you ask I would have bought in O'Connor, Barnes or AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) at 12, and then probably replaced them with Tapuai last year. I dont think we would have won the world cup but I think we would have put in a better performance.

Coopers form for the reds was good. His form for the wallabies was 'passable'. The wallabies backline has not clicked since 2010, save for a brief moment on the 2011 eoyt when we had Tapuai on the field in place of McCabe. I think it is pretty fair to say the different gameplan (and the...

But on the contrary it always gets me how the the anti-QC (Quade Cooper) camp are so desperate to blame the wallabies poor performance on Quade. He is such a small part of the problem.