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Anyone got a Brumbies injured/unavaiable list?

No Canes team announced yet. Maybe they'll have some big "outs" too. Right now the Reds look really dodgy in a number of areas but they've still got Thor, really good locks, a kick-ass backrow, Stewart and Paisami and a very good back three. It could be time for Vunivalu and Daugunu to really...

Properly used Roberts could be a trump card.

About 99.9% of Gaggers would agree with you. Despite the exhaustion, the Rebels won't even get close. Hardest thing for tipping this game is getting the margin correct.

If Dickson and Aumua got six weeks downgraded to three for previous good behaviour and early plea (the usual), I can't see Scobar getting less than six because he's got a lousy disciplinary record already.

Everything has to go right for us: selection, lineout throwing, halfback clearance speed, box-kicking (none please unless its an emergency), Mark N (Nawaqanitawase)'s defence, choice of ref, etc etc. I really believe we can step up - only the Blues and Crusaders are out of our league - but everyone has to have...

This argument has about as much worth as the Quade Cooper/Bernard Foley/Israel Folau etc. arguments and is in the Force/Waratahs game thread. Every franchise has to stay under the cap and can select anyone. Who cares which state brought them up? Can we go back to the rugby?

Samoa beats SA??? I didn't see that coming!

Yeah, that really crap team out of Christchurch thought so too! Not.

They really are our point of difference and I think they might surprise some of the Kiwi teams, who are not used to Australian front rows being quite that industrious. Our scrum is seriously under-rated especially by the referees, but that won't go on too much longer I am really looking forward...

Rarely do teams go from last to first in one season. We think it can happen because the occasional outlier does, but its exceedingly rare. Mid-table is what you'd expect from the squad we have, no more, because we lack experience and/or talent in a few key positions. If we can retain 80% of the...

Andrew Kellaway at 13 seems like a move of absolute desperation. He's marking up on Hunter Paisami who has been the best 13 in Australia, while competing with Perese and Ikitau. I would recommend two layers of Kevlar padding for the weekend! Not only that but its a 5:2 bench, so Gordon is the...

All you'd want to say is that Cullen Grace must be having an AB year to keep Matera on the bench. It'll be a colossal game, I'm sure our seismologists will pick up the reverberations in Oz. I spent ages trying to put my pick in, all the other games were relatively easy but I still don't know if...

Thanks Gordon, but you left out their grandmother's maiden names and where their fathers went to kindergarten. ;)

The Western Force last week missed a golden chance to put the Rebels away and get a win at home. Their backline is disfunctional until you get to 14 and their coach is "dead man walking" and you'd think this game will be a bridge too far. The Waratahs had the bye to help with their injury woes...

Once the crossovers get going at the end of the month, Crusaders, Blues and Chiefs will be top 4 with the Reds. Hurricanes, Brumbies and Waratahs plus an unknown will make up the top eight. The Highlanders are starting to come good and will have three or four teams behind them come the semi's.

Not only was Paisami awesome in defence, but particularly in the first half his running game was on song and he made good metres. His direct opponent was Ikitau and on the evidence of this game his defence was not up to scratch. Maybe he had an off day, everyone can. But he won't want to have...

My mistake, Paisame not Petaia. IMO Petaia is a winger/fullback.

I thought the game was a cracker and the card issue didn't detract from it at all. What interested me was some of the personal match-ups and the new pecking order it established. The Reds pack gave the Brumbies pack an absolute hammering despite the fact that some of the Brumbies played pretty...

No, it's not. What is silly is the things players are doing to try and maim people. They just refuse to aim for below the armpits - both the red and the yellow occurred because players wanted to attack around the shoulders and missed by a centimetre or two. It is too hard to be that precise when...