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Reading anything into it is silly. It's Team Rehab + Exiles + Rebs/Force, who are understandably not a large enough group to run an opposed session, hence the extras (particularly Halfbacks and Hookers).

Fuck me Pone's so large that you almost can't see Gibbo behind him!

2 Year contract if taken in the standard draft, with financial terms based on where they were taken. 1 year if taken in the rookie draft which has a lower financial term again. Discussion has come around the past 5 or so years to extend that initial contract out to 3 or 2+1 or 2+2 for players...

Ruckmen are probably the best one for one comparison when it comes to a level of physical maturity, particularly for tight five forwards. Now occasionally someone is taken within the top 25 and performs well within their first couple of seasons (Brodie Grundy and Tim English are the only ones in...

The money on offer for draftees would have to be pretty good to make it work I reckon. The base wage of $50-70k ain't it.

I'm mostly joking re "How could RA do this?" But fr there should be more... encouragement on the higher level around "equalisation", even if it involves buying out or shuffling contracts around. That's not to say everyone should go raiding the brumbies or something, that's both unreasonable...

Gibbo - Uelese - Tupou Eloff- Mafi - Pone Kailea/Orr - Rangi/Fourie - Talakai That front row group is silly. Legit though, how does RA let that happen.

This is interesting. Stuff up from media manager or good indication of discussions? Given Phillip ain't there it definitely isn't just listing every current Wallaby.

Completely off topic but I was surprised to see one season Rebel Afusipa Taumoepeau still running around and selected for the Tongan squad at 33: he's gotten over 200 games in France and a dozen international caps so far is pretty good for a player I hadn't thought about in a long a time.

The Australia A vs Tonga game in a months time may be the most important game to keep an eye on. Good indication of who's still in the mix despite limited overall gametime or domestic performances, and maybe an indication of any established faces still on the outer. Particularly if Tonga roll...

I get that there's... "something" in it for the U20s, particularly the coaching staff. But there's a better option than throwing them against, well, that. Both the Rebels and the Force were eliminated from finals seemingly before the Bahbahs squad was selected. Now I'm not saying they should...

What's the point in a fixture like that? What does any of them get out of it lmao.

it's a tough team no doubt. We will have the benefit of a strong schedule however: 2 weeks off after the opener against South Africa, then Romania the next week before Ireland, whereas Tonga has us between South Africa and Ireland in three consecutive games. You can safely presume that the...

It might be "too" high of a standard, but fr, the Rebels and Force were out of finals contention, how hard would it have been to have 5 or 6 fringe players each from them bulk up the team.

This is indeed my thought process. Carter nailed on at 10, Anderson on one wing and Kells somewhere in the team. That somewhere likely becomes 13 when you take into account the ability of the group of Lancaster, Pincus, Mason and G. Vaihu as compared to the center group above. One center...

Some brief thoughts I played with/am playing with over the holiday weekend based on a couple of guesses at resigning/potential player availability. 1) If Uelese and Fa'amausili get re-signed we have an extremely strong front row group: to the extent that I'd be comfortable having our 3rd...

Nah my dudes, 189cm and 120kgs man, he'll get 20 minutes off the bench against Argentina play well (only 1 lineout which goes to two), then pick up a soft tissue injury that rules him out of the rest of the RC but Eddie's "seen enough" to give him that 3rd spot for the WC.

Good individual stuff from Perese there.

Holy hell that intro from Stan was embarrassingly overproduced and hollow. Lets hope the Tahs have something resembling the substance that it lacked.

Ma'a Nonu would have missed years of All Black selection by that metric.