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Plenty of people saying the same thing about Tim Tszyu. I feel like both of them will prove to be pretty capable in their own right.

Question for the room - where does a fit O’Connor fit into the mix at the moment. I know the easy and logical response is that he comes back via the bench. But there is talk he is now back to being considered a 10. In recent years, when fit, I’d say he has been pretty good in that role. His...

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You can’t deliberately throw, pass or bat the ball into touch. Many a carnival 7s game (where you often have a bunch of league players who aren’t familiar with the rule) are lost due to this. But the odd bigger game too.

Look - my last word on this. NSW may well be shit and in for a shit season. But a week ago Qld looked ordinary and random posters were saying that they would finish bottom three. This week, they put it all together. In pro-sport there are fine margins between a good performance and a poor one...

Given Bell seems to have gone from struggling at scrums to being a dominant scrummager and given his work rate and impact around the field remains excellent I reckon he’d be up there. I thought he acquitted himself very well at the Workd Cup. But best XV is always subjective - if you think I’m...

Absolutely Reg. And I thought Grealy had some really good touches too including slipping into first receiver for our first try. I actually thought it was obvious Vunivalu was looking for work too, but he is just getting his lines wrong. Throwing the forward pass, dropping a pop off the deck...

That’s absurd. They can pick virtually a full Wallaby forward pack if they choose to and guys like Bell, Holloway, Hanigan & Gleeson are far from over the hill. Bell is close to World XV level at the moment and HJH (Harry Johnson-Holmes) was one of the best performed tight heads prior to his injury last year. Porecki...

I will say this. It’s great to have rugby back and to be talking about rugby. And always good to get the win over NSW - even if it is a trial.

With O’Connor injured the only other option would be Henry. And that may be a good option - I raised that myself last week. But, as Reg pointed out last week, Grealy is the one who is banging the door down to be next cab off the rank. I also think that the combo of Paisami, Flook in the...

I think having Flook and Petaia in the team who have both played different spots makes carrying a specialist winger easier. Paisami can shift to 13 in need. Even McLaughlin Phillips - whilst I know it wouldn’t be ideal - but pretty sure he has played both 15 & wing for the Wallabies u20s...

Well - based on Liam Wright’s response he knew nothing about it. So maybe Horan had it wrong. From memory he also said it was on Friday, so may well depend on how many people are available. Although I guess it could be Friday evening. Bit of a tough gig though for any of those guys working -...

I was talking to a relative of Jock’s on Friday. Apparently even when he played last year he really struggled with his injury (ankle, I think?). But he is completely over it this year and I think it was noticeable yesterday his zip in attack was back. Even from fullback I don’t think we saw much...

By way of comparison last week I thought most of the Qld players were sub par. I’d include in that Uru, Wright, McReight, McDermott & Paisami & Flook. 7 days later and I thought all of these guys were excellent. I thought Daly was good last week but Ryan Smith was a step up this week. If you...

I might have to watch again as I thought Thomas was okay, but the ruck was getting a bit untidy. Maybe I’m letting him off easy. Having said that Werchon was excellent last week so if he’s managed to jump the queue good luck to him. Nice to have competition for spots. How good was Tate though...

NSW need to be better - no doubt, And I understand the frustration but not sure I would be giving up on the season just yet. A couple of the forwards just seemed off the pace at moment, but there is every chance that training load has an impact on that. It’s still a pretty handy pack. Add...

Les has some interesting decisions to make for our first game. I’m pretty happy with most spots. A couple that I am already thinking differently to what I was thinking before the trials started. At this stage my preferred team - Ravai Faessler Nonggorr Smith Uru Wright McReight Wilson...

I thought he did a couple of good things but he and the Tahs backrow was generally rubbish. Gleeson had a couple of highlights but not much to get excited about. Given it was Gamble’s first game back so you’d think he’ll be much better in 2-3 weeks. I don’t really remember Swinton doing anything.

This seemed to be the view before the game. Not really sure why though. I thought the Tahs would do better than they did but it is hardly like they had a much better team on paper. Plenty of the Reds players are better credentialed than their Tahs opposites and plenty calls were 50/50. It’s...

One thing for the Tahs - the Reds showed that a lot can change in a week.