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I think looking at this first squad selection as anything but a squad about who'll be training and in consideration for the Saffa and Argy tests is a mugs game. Presuming fitness, there's not a player in that Main Squad + Rehab group who won't be in the World Cup 23. The other 10 I sincerely...

189cm and 118kg to 180 and 100. I don't agree, but it's relatively apparent that there's some specific gameplan he's wanting to implement whereby (at least in his mind) selecting the players most capable of fitting those roles (particularly when it comes to size) will be more successful than...

This (28 player wtf) group were also named as train on players: Forwards Charlie Cale Josh Canham Pone Fa'amausili Folau Fainga'a Charlie Gamble Ned Hanigan Tom Lambert Lachlan Lonergan Cadeyrn Neville Lukhan Salakaia-Loto Blake Schoupp Darcy Swain Lachlan Swinton Sam Talakai Brad Wilkin Harry...

So, including team rehab, but not including team "not considered" Forwards Hooker 3 Prop 6 Lock 4 Lock/Backrow 2 Backrow 7 Backs Scrum Half 3 Fly Half 2 Center 4 Outside backs 6 Utility 3 The squad suggests EJ (Eddie Jones) knows what he want those halves and tight 5 players to look like, but the backrow...

It's a weird ass group. Not so much that anyone is missing from the perceived best 23, but the ones that are outside that are slightly strange.

Forwards Allan Ala'alatoa (29, ACT Brumbies, 64 Tests) Richie Arnold (32, Stade Toulousain, uncapped) Matt Faessler (24, Queensland Reds, uncapped) Nick Frost (23, ACT Brumbies, 9 Tests) Matt Gibbon (28, Melbourne Rebels, 5 Tests) Jed Holloway (30, NSW Waratahs, 10 Tests) Michael Hooper...

Yeah, but you're talking about now. It's hardly just a Hooper thing: for Scotland, post BILs tour 5'11" Hamish Watson has struggled to have the same level of impact he had over the past 4-6 years, where blokes like 6'2" Rory Darge, 6'4" Luke Crosbie & 6'3" Andy Christie have performed very...

It's an egregiously sloppy error from the Hamiltonians that needed to be pulled up.

Zac and Angelo are technically still on the books no? (I do get what you're saying, it is kinda weird)

Good pickup, pretty happy with it. Still need a 12.

Aw man

There is a chance I have misinterpreted the comments :eek:

If that's the answer it's a bad bad tease.

I think so too, the PI crew are finding it hilarious on Insta

I think from a bench it'd be fine for a short period of time, particularly if it was on attack and the other fly half dropped into the backfield for defence. I think planning around him playing there turns a number of his strengths at 10 (defence, running, pace) to "meeting minimum...

Playmaker is the big thing shitting me. Otherwise I'd be 99% confident we'd managed to steal Daugunu from the reds. Same goes for the likes of Perenara, or JOC (James O'Connor) or a South African: you'd expect the 60 to be much larger to hit 20+ Edit: Talakai, Mafi and Rob seem to think "playmaker" is funny...

Are there any ex-sevens players running around who could fit the bill?

I love this site sometimes Edit: No freakin way it did not just double down on that

Derpy derp. I started with a 23 of signed players then swapped things around: ended up accidentally leaving Ekuasi out of the squad too

If everyone from last year not formally released is re-signed, this is roughly what we look like before further signings. First XV Reserves/2nd XV Squaddies Matt Gibbon Isaac Aedo Kailea Cabous Eloff Jordan Uelese Alex Mafi Anaru Rangi Taniela Tupou Pone Fa'amausili Sam Talakai...