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Right now, and with a very healthy Rebels bias, I'd be looking at something like 1. Slipper 2. Moore 3. Kepu 4. Simmons 5. Little Timani 6. Fardy 7. Hooper 8. Vaea 9. White/Phipps - Phipps if Quade is healthy and playing well. 10. To'omua/Quade 11. Speight 12. Lilo/To'omua if Quade is...

Good question. Apparently Longbottom is going pretty well too?

There was a bit of chat about this in the Reds - Brumbies match thread, just carrying it over from there. Who's shaping up as the backup THP? Kepu is pretty clearly the first choice, although it would be nice if he could stop the stupid shoulder charges. Alexander is, I guess, the presumptive...

Slim, as much as anything with Weeks he isn't going to carry the baggage at international level that Alexander - fairly or not - does. Think he's got a better body shape for Test rugby. Wide as he is tall. Not as long as Alexander. Been around for a while, knows some tricks. Great club guy as...

Weeks mayyybe. He does little to nothing around the park but he's been pretty rock steady come scrum time.

Yeah I had no impression of him being a dirty player or anything. I think he'll be given 4 weeks with a couple taken off for the clean record. Just really, really, dumb. Lucky it didn't end badly for White.

Just saw the replay, he's incredibly lucky he didn't get a red and can look forward to a few weeks holiday. What was he thinking? Almost like some of those neck cranks you see the Saffas using to clear people out of rucks. He doesn't have form for this sort of thing does he?

The Reds have scored 39 points in five games while conceding 125. It's jokeshop stuff. The coaches, Graham and Meehan, should be ditched now, before the bye. Give Stiles the reigns, give him a couple of weeks to work what he can, and then immediately start a global search for someone to take...

Few boys who look like they don't want to be out there right now.

There is absolutely no way that's their biggest issue. They were beaten up at the breakdown for 65 minutes of that much. That will cost you game after game after game. Also what Pfitzy said.

Some pretty grubby play in there from certain Tahs. Referees seriously need to start looking at the offside line and at the way players are cleaning out at the breakdown. There's far, far, too much shoulder charging going on. Kepu and Potgeiter absolutely love it. The Highlanders weren't...

No problem with that. I'm just saying they're held to different standards by a lot of fans.

His body of work was excellent. Controlled the game well, defended well for the most part, led Debreczeni onto the ball. Burgess was just not good when he came on. The two of them are held to very different standards.

I agree that's what it looks like from the outside. It's what makes me think there's stuff going on internally. I've criticised Totality Tony as much as anyone over the last year or so, but I don't think he's stupid enough to not play Neville unless he had a good reason.

That'll be a good move if so. He's big, quick, huge tank, everything you could want from a lock physically. Just isn't a very good rugby player. In fairness he's never played with a senior lock down here, a veteran who can show him how to get around the park properly. I hope he comes good, but...

I reckon it'll be a horses for courses thing. Fainga'a is a looser player, but I'd argue his linking game is better for it. They would have known going into the Force game that it was likely going to be dragged down into a forwards scrap so they went with Fuglistaller. It makes sense to me...

Mafi has had an immense start to the season. Absolute beast.

He was miles better than Burgess. Liike, miles.

I'll take that

I can actually see what they were thinking. It'll be a similar thing to how Dwyer keeps talking about wanting to see at 13. From what I've seen Godwin's great assest on attack is his ability to stand defenders up, slide through the small gaps he opens up and then to keep his arms free and...