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There is a sincere and reasonable discussion to be had re: overprescription of medicated solutions to mental health issues in order to keep the working life machine going rather than taking the time and space to make appropriate lifestyle changes, However, your comment is a fairly archaic way...

I think trying to make sense of anything BeIN does is pointless.

South Africa has the solution: https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/international/131580570/sanzaar-chiefs-consider-radical-dates-shift-for-rugby-championship-all-blacks-seasons

No stone unturned it looks like. https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/plans-for-wallabies-shadow-squad-to-play-portugal-in-paris-double-header-20230629-p5dkgx.html

Lots of reaction. In reality: 6 Nations teams have had three full campaigns since the last JWC, whereas for RC teams there's essentially only been showpiece matches: while it's not all the same players, that's a significant difference in scope for backroom and support staff. That doesn't mean...

Man I hope we can organise some pick up games like other teams are doing. Can't imagine we have the money to do so though.

Wobblies making life too easy for Ireland. Ref has indeed been poor, but opportunities not taken thus far.

I did mean locks capable of playing like heavy fuckers, rather than tighthead props, I don't mind relying on Smith/Tualima as bench options generally, but we'll be pretty light on if Canham gets injured or regresses. I'd love to have Bip back for Halfback tbh.

9 & 12 are my only positions where I'm concerned about the best XV. Maybe a backup 10 option as well, Mason isn't ready and I don't have faith Jooste. Otherwise I think it's just a bit of depth at one or two positions (tighthead lock, maybe openside flanker) that bring me pause.

I wouldn't get "too" excited, this to me reads as "we're probably done with capped internationals". Doesn't mean there's not a lot of good uncontracted options floating around.

Whether those two specifically will get a go you couldn't say, although I would suggest it'd be unlikely if despite injury clouds to a number of pencilled in backs (Kellaway, Petaia and Kerevi) those two couldn't crack the primary squad. In a more general sense, looking at Eddie's history and...

Looks like Proctor will be announced tomorrow.

All your other points are reasonable (if a little tiring), but this is amateur stuff. International selection isn't reward for form. Selecting the "best players" available is fine when your professional scope is fine when you're looking at Tonga, or Spain, and your professional set-up can't...

Dane Coles has at least 3 or 4cm and 10kg on McInerny, probably more on Lachie Lonergan, and has 80+ caps to 1 and 4. That's not a reasonable comparison to make. I don't agree with Uelese selection btw. Whether it's mental or injury he doesn't play with the same physical ambition he had in the...

Uelese and soft tissue injuries are a matter of when and not if.

I think BR meant a travelling reserve: If Slipps or Gibbo pull something in the warm up one of the tightheads would have to swap sides with Bell unavailable, and hence the non-inclusion of Schoupp or Lambert is interesting. For me, I think EJ (Eddie Jones) has decided that with Robertson out it's gonna be...

Thought experiment: If Eddie names this 35 man squad, explicitly for the first two games of the RC, & with Donaldson, T Hooper, Kemeny, Perese & Pietsch explicitly called out as injury replacement players, is there as much noise around the squad as there was? Hooker aside, where Eddie clearly...

Two Daniel Maiavas would be a bit much for anyone no?