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Just on Timani, I'm again going to be a bit of a contrarian. Look at any of the top modern 8s going around - Read, Vermuelen, Vito, Fernandez-Lobbe etc. Timani doesn't resemble them at all. They're long and rangy, good carriers, good in the lineout, good ball players, and they do a lot of work...

I don't think he's the best 12, I do think he's hands down the best utility we've got though. Put him on the bench and we can play a 6-2 split. I'd like to see Stirzaker Debreczeni Crawford Ellison Sefa Shipperly Placid Give that a less than 1% chance of happening though. Sent from my...

Daz will probably ban me, but Ellison. Paired with Sefa or English. We need a second ball player in there. I think Debreczeni is a bit like Foley in that he's going to need to be paired with a playmaker outside him. His passing game works at NRC level, but he hasn't been able to get enough width...

Damnit. You've gone and raised my hopes. When Mikey Mike first enters the line to throw a cutout straight over the sideline I'm going to hold you personally responsible.

See anything at training that we can read far too much into and draw season-defining conclusions from? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sorry, can't agree with that. I want them to be invested in the club, don't get me wrong. But I want them to find the best GM, best coach, best S&C guy, the best facilities etc etc. and then get out of the way. Put the right people in place, then let them do their job. Sent from my iPhone...

If the new owners are so activist that they're willing to go over the heads of the coaches then we've got far bigger problems than the captaincy tbh. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He's also a fullback. And the second or third best one at the club IMO. I suspect Totality Tony will pick him nevertheless and he'll be a vice captain or some other type of senior leader just shy of the captaincy. He can take over if people start getting injured/dragged. The club have clearly...

Slim's right. The lineout was a major liability last year. Hopefully Hanson replacing Leafa will help somewhat in that regard. Even a back-five of Jones, Timani, Thomson, McMahon, Fainga'a really only gives two and a half options. They're going to have to do some serious work scheme wise to...

As captain? Maybe. He captained the U20s in the 2014 World Championships. But he's only 21, it's his third season of professional rugby, and I'd rather not have him loaded up with all the extra stuff captains have to deal with. He can take over in a few years time. There's no evidence that...

Good content should do both ideally. But yeah, there should be a specific purpose with each individual campaign/storyline/piece of content/whatever. And to an extent that's where different platforms come in as well. Your Snapchat audience will be very different to that on Facebook, which will be...

Colby will start in some capacity. He's a very good, and underrated, player. Backrow will probably be Thomson - McMahon - Colby. Fuglistaller and Reid can fight it out for the bench spot. The captain should be picked with the aim to keep the role for at least the next three years. Stirzaker...

Well we've seen that Soup form doesn't matter. I'd move to France if I was him, why wouldn't you? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

1. No idea 2. Stirzaker. Maybe Colby. On the major sponsor, or at least somewhat related, I think the Rebels should go way harder with the jerseys - get their Stade on. Give yourself a point of difference, give sponsors some serious exposure, and have some fun with it. Sent from my iPhone...

Which is why there are a whole load of internal metrics dedicated to tracking conversion rates etc. Volume is interesting, but it only tells us a very limited amount of information. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Poor is probably a bit harsh, they're more just completely textbook. Look at their Facebook for example, on any given day I can almost guarantee that they'll have one post at 8:30-9:30 in the morning, then another a 6-7:30 in the evening. Conventional wisdom is that gets you the best reach...

It absolutely is. Like anything though, volume only tells you so much. Be interesting, and far more valuable, to see the engagement metrics, but they're not going to be publicly available. All the Australian Soup teams do a pretty average job with their social media really. Sent from my...

His defence to be honest. Not for lack of effort, he's just really small. A few times he's been isolated against loose forwards and he's just been bumped. Would have to be protected to an extent. Kicking game is pretty awful as well. That said, he's comfortably the best passing scrumhalf we...

Superb. In hindsight those years were a lot of fun, even if most of them were spent calling for Phipps' head. The team had a real lash, even if they couldn't defend for shit. Was always great watching them play like complete potatoes for 70 minutes before putting on a clinic of 15-man running...

I think Fiji are going to upset someone, I just hope it's not the Wallabies.