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On Donaldson - not having a go, but why is that?

So the team would be 1 Bell 2 Nassar 3 7As (Allan Ala'alatoa) 4 Blyth 5 LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) 6 Valetini? 7 Tizzano? 8 Wilson? 9 White 10 Lolesio 11 Koroibete 12 Paisami 13 Ikitau 14 Kellaway 15 Wright 16 ?? 17 Slipper/Kailea? 18 Nongorr? 19 Uru 20 ?? 21 Mcdermott 22 Lynagh 23 Jorgensen

Doran is reporting some changes Bell, Uru, White, Koroibete to start Jorgenson in the team I'll laugh if its a bit off again to flush out the source

seems his source got burnt

I've seen this mentioned a few times now and it confuses me. Wasn't the feedback from Rennie to Noah constantly about needing to play flatter? And now we want him to play deeper?

Doesnt picking them just push the problem into next year against the Lions? I kinda get where Joe is coming from. If the players arent going to be available for the biggest rugby event outside a world cup, why would he try and build around them now.

my key observation of our attack/shape is our forward runners were either too close or too wide from the ruck. We were either running it 5m from the ruck where the SA defence was already set OR about 25m from the ruck where the Saffas would make their tackle and then we would be isolated. It...

What about Stewart to 12 and Ikitau to take on the crash ball role

For next week the changes i'd make would be ?? the front row - no idea but something needs to change, hopefully Bell is fit, Tupou will be out no doubt LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) out for Blyth or maybe even Hooper in the 2nd row A bigger body at 6 with Valetini and 8 Backline i'd leave the same with perhaps Filipo...

this call baffled me too

Listening to Schmidt's press conference it sounds like Donaldson has some serious work ons. I've also found it interesting some of the commentary of him playing deeper than Noah as if its a good thing, Noah's main criticism from Rennie was that he played too deep and didnt take on the line

The bench seems a little light on beef but man i cant wait to see reimer come on at 50/60mins and rip in

this is a good looking 23

Yeah I reckon Cale has been left out of the Springbox squad due to his size

great news. I haven't seen too much of him but i suspect he will fit right into the brumbies style.

Surely its today or tomorrow. I would have thought they'd want 2 weeks in camp

He's always been good but he was exemplary today

completely agree.

The eternal optimist in me says that we have the base in the pack to be competitive if we can get our attack working The wallabies fan in me says this is the peak before the fall in the RC

Agreed, he looked good around the park in attack but gave away too many penalties