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Absolutely butchered that opportunity

Foote clearly has no time for Tuttle, while Louwrens is both unsigned & not going to be the player that pushes us from cellar dwellers to mid-table.

I don't want to shortcut what we're doing with too much: but it's fairly clear that a handful of senior/important positions will need to be recruited around: Sakaia-Loto is a nice one for one with Phillip, but there's no question that we need at minimum 1, probably 2 Centers, a scrum half, and a...

It would indeed be excellent to see the boys who're outside the Wallabies and sticking around for '24 have 3-5 games scheduled against pro opposition to learn and build together. Wests are fine, but it's not the same.

I miss Tamati Ellison.

It's been a very low quality game so far from all involved.

White's just being a scrum half, whether or not there's an infringement they're always just petulant shits.

Oh fuck off Angus. Yes, you can't award a turnover penalty instead of not rolling, but you CAN correct yourself and call scrum brumbies from a dead ball instead.

First domino has fallen, a win sees the Rebels overtake the Landers.

Fixtures are indeed slightly strange, we have South Africa, 14 days, Tonga, 7 days, Romania, 6 days, Ireland, but still a much better option than 3 or 4 day breaks. I don't expect us to take Romania likely, our hubris has come close to hurting us before, but the fixture definitely gives us the...

Rugby Australia and Australian Super Rugby contracting runs from 1 November to 31 October. I suggest that this is a backward contracting model designed around (a) copying New Zealand, who only require their players be locked into contract that late in order to support their Provincial...

The issue is contracting 200 odd players from November 1st to October 31st when you have nothing (or, very little) for those outside the top 50 to do for the last FOUR months of that.

Is Aumua the 2nd one? Lomax has 13 Rebels caps to his name ;)

First two seasons (presuming a one point loss this week): Pasifika W/L of 2-26 (7.7% WR (World Rugby)) Net PD of -513 (-18.3 per game) Rebels: W/L of 7-29 (19.4% WR (World Rugby)) Net PD of -447 (-12.2 per game) Force: W/L of 7-3-16 (30.4% WR (World Rugby)) Net PD of -166 (-6.4 per game) Sunwolves: W/L of 3-27 (10% WR (World Rugby)) Net PD of...

Time for the return of the man, the myth, the legend

The Landers loss last week and the Canes game really hurt as well IMO.

Completely and utterly off topic. Why isn't the bumblebee the Force's standard strip? Has a super classy rugby look to it.

I know it's not the Australian way to do a back row, but I have no problem with the idea of a Kemeny-Ekuasi-Leota grouping in the event Wilkin is unavailable for a period of time.

It ultimately depends on limits. I think in an unrestricted pool of players there's a strong enough argument for him to be included. But at 4, I think it's Kerevi, Cooper, Skelton & Koirobete, then Foley at 5 and Arnold at 6, and at that point you have almost 20% of your squad playing outside...

BPA is someone I wouldn't understand the reasoning behind selecting. Thinking back to the April training squad, I see: Kerevi and Koroibete selected as proven, ongoing performers at international level. Arnold & Skelton selected because of the point of difference that they provide over...