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Yeah Scotty that's fair, though Foley has done ok - and in many ways Cooper and O'Connor have played similar roles, with O'Connor coming into first receiver a lot while playing at fullback.

Yeah, he copped some flack missing tackles on Carter and McCabe last year so I think that colours people's thinking a bit.

672 mins played 32 tackles 1 missed. 96.9% Not bad in a team getting smashed up eh? he also made 558metres. For comparison Cooper 310m. To'omua 361. Foley 454m. Scanning my eye over the profiles the most similar player to JOC (James O'Connor) for try assists, offloads, linebreaks, metres is Cruden, but JOC (James O'Connor)...

Don't see Deans repeating the Cooper at 15 on D tactic, but I agree McCabe, to a lesser extent Barnes, would be the logical option, just not sure he'd fit into that role at short order while Barnes can. I hope Barnes isn't picked as our 15, it will tell me Deans really is opting conservative...

Frustrating game to be at. Couldn't belief that saffa kicked the ball away at 78 minutes. There I am saying dumbass you have given us the game only to see a rebel player spit the ball forward when we're playing with 14. Talk about coach killers, I think Hill copped about 4 in 6 minutes! I...

Can't see AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) at fullback, not because he can't do a good job but because we need a strong 13 much more desperately. There's 4 players who can do a job that falls between good and great for us in fullback at test level, five if you counted Folau which is starting to look a possibility as an...

Very impressed with Cooper, sure some flubs earlier on, but he didn't overplay and he started to play himself at crucial times. Magic try vs Cruden and exactly what I meant else where about setting a pattern then breaking it. I am not going all Quade is Wallabies 10 yet, though I hope to be...

To win, realistically they need a home final. They need to top the comp.

On Deans, he's not in it for the long haul at this point, he needs to win. he has little to gain this year by being ultra conservative. Even a Lions win will be insufficient if our TRC is poor so I'll be fascinated to see how he plays the team. Hopefully the best of 2010 meets best of...

If it is true no ARU approach has been made to allow Smith to be available for the Lions I am staggered. The NZRU seemed to have no difficulty deciding it needed to ask for SBW to stay on for some extra games last year. They are going to look very silly if this angle isn't explored. I like...

You mean he is serious when he says these thing? I thought he just said them to keep his media profile up. Well there goes half the credit I gave him for a sense of humour.

While I enjoyed your post, Quade has a few issues that as 10 are a real bloody problem for us; - he has a chickenshit attitude, I am sorry but he does. There are things about him I really like, he puts in 100% off field looking after fans, his pass, and whatever else you say about him the guy...

Very well said TH.

Like To'omua his chances of being the run on 10 are really low, but if Foley has somehow clicked into a new level and puts in 4 more games like last week he has a great shot at the squad, if not the 22.

I'd like to see the actual squad posted, what Red's are in it? I don't think we should write off Quade just yet just because of a logistics camp. It's a 5 horse race right now to run on 10 - JOC (James O'Connor), Lilo, To'omua, Foley, Barnes. Beale is gone as far as I can tell but if he gets back in a week or...

BH - not for me, but I have to say looking at this cheered me up.

Kinda crazy isn't it. Pre RWC Kurtley was the best fullback in the world. 18 months later he has little to show at test level, there is a huge cloud over him, and he's seen as a likely candidate for wallabies fly-half.

Must say those are very good points Hugh, even more so if Deans decides to play a 6-2 bench. I do think it is compelling to have a form proper 10, and you can reverse the argument about JOC (James O'Connor) utility - he and AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) give Deans some flexibility around who is on bench. I continue to think the 10, 12...

Yeah I said as much in my earlier post BH, the twist line was a bit of crystal ball gazing about Brumbies performance in coming weeks. If they decide to slot mccabe at 13 and the brumbies backline starts to rocknroll, suddenly To'omua comes into the frame. I'll take your 1000-1 on him debuting...

Yeah Emu my post was about who I think Deans will select, so hence McCabe as one of the shortlist, but I think form in the coming weeks will decide who plays 10 and 12. Not as sold on Taps personally, particularly given players like Roberts or Tuilagi and I suspect Deans has a similar (bias?)...