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Having watched the AB's developments this year, I expect that practically every professional coach in world rugby will be developing their players off load skills in the coming 12 months. The thought of AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) with an offload game is a good one, eh?

Beale was electric at 10 for us (Rebels) and is my preference but otherwise O'Connor. Barnes at 10 in my opinion has been awful. 15 worked well for him. Don't mess with it.

3 McCabe 2 Douglas 1 Phipps

I expect the issue is it was an overt act that brings the game into disrepute. Rugby wants to be seen as family friendly in order to have a future. Head butts, even faux ones, are not meeting that standard. For me a penalty would have been sufficient, or a censure post match, assuming no prior...

Sharpe or McCabe. Moore I like also if match fit but he isn't getting first gig at the moment.

3 Hooper 2 AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) 1 Alexander

Nice pic of the 2. The more kiwis that come over and settle down here the better, cunning long term recruitment strategy for the game!

In any high performance physical activity that activity is 90% mental, maybe 95%. Without passion you have nothing.

Troxler - It was if you wanted to see us do some good scrummaging.

3. Timani 2. AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) 1. Hooper Bumped AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) up for the try save and the fact he is always up for the game.

Positives - scrums (!), contact in the first 20, Timani, AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper), Hooper(!), our scrambling defense. Negatives. Barnes, sorry mate that was woeful. Every player who opted to kick the ball against an opposition playing in depth. The guy who decided to play those two penalties instead of taking the...

Happy to see it, Foley's haphazard (or so it seemed to me) selection policy drove me a little nuts, and Sarel was a victim of it. Very dangerous player ball in hand and a big engine and I wish him the best of luck, except vs the Rebels of course, in which case I trust he will stuff up every pass...

I am totally over the McCaw Pocock argument. They bring different elements to the game, are both superb players with huge engines, and neither of them give up. Both of them do exactly what is expected re the laws of the game, which is to say push it to the limit and just a importantly both are...

because he is the scrum half and in the leadership group!

Oh he'd still cop flack, but not to the level he copped last year, not if he does a decent job of being conciliatory. Ps the kiwis didn't seem to mind the chiefs giving McCaw jib.

Meh brain fade, too much red wine, Holmes is not Godwin - do like Godwin, maybe he should play scrumhalf, we need those :p

I suspect the kiwis would be a little more accepting this time round, particularly if Quade makes an effort to be conciliatory. As for Cooper's abilities, there is no doubt in my mind he is our most talented flyhalf, the only ingredient required is patience to pick his moments, letting his...

Having watched Phipps all year, I have warmed to him a lot in the latter half of the year. Dangerous around the ruck, fairly good pass, and showing some good drive. I'd have him ahead of most in Australia. Irony then that I suspect that 3 are better, 2 of which are at the Rebels and the other...

There is a lot in what you say BH, but the ABs made errors too. My concern is that we again tried punching it up, without asking any meaningful questions of the defense.