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Man, I wish the Sadists had posted that team last Saturday!

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough. The question I posed was "Why were the Reds players looking exhausted in the last 20 minutes?" The answer has to be within the Reds, not down to Liam Messam.

Begs the question though: The Chiefs spent long periods in the first half playing with 13/14 players. So why did the Reds look so tired in the last 20 while the Chiefs just went up a gear? Were the Reds over-trained so that fatigue hit early? Are they just poorly conditioned or are some players...

He was just squaring the ledger. He made the majority of his first half errors in the Rebels favour.

He was one of our best players last game.

This is the professional era, we are not playing amateurs any more. It's their job, just like yours. Answer me truly. If your boss walks into your office tomorrow and says "OK, the only way I'm keeping you on is if you take a 50% pay cut and you can forget about redundancy despite your years...

There seem to be a lot of people on here who have unloaded on Rodda without thinking carefully about it: If the reason he left the Reds was the captaincy issue then he's in exalted company. Some of you are too young to remember, but Mark Ella retired at the height of his powers after Allan...

Watching the Lions test at Homebush stadium (cost me hundreds of dollars for a supposedly gold class seat) was significantly worse than the SCG.

“When I left the field at Suncorp I felt pretty uncomfortable,” Gordon said. “By all reports I’ve completely ruptured the anterior and posterior but the medial is still intact, so I don’t have to get surgery." This quote, attributed to Gordon, was in SMH yesterday. It appears to refer to his...

I'd add Porecki as another possible positive, but I am really struggling to find any others. Maybe Maddocks. Moeroa looked half-OK though shaded by his opposite. But that's all I can find,

I think in the past grabbing the armpit usually has been equated with binding on the arm.

I thought that the Tahs were significantly better than they were last week, probably 20 points better. They were improved by their experience last week and will be improved by this week too. But they lost by 50. The undeniable message from that game is that the Brumbies were a class above the...

Great forward packs don't get absolutely hammered like the Tahs did last Friday. How is Horton still the best hooker available? He had a nightmare game last Friday and Porecki was dynamic when he got on, one of the few forwards who really put in an effort. Slipper is Australia's best...

Harris who? Do you mean the bloke who was replaced by Sinclair. I didn't even see him leave the field, he was that anonymous and I doubt that he actually touched the ball at all. If he is in the 22 next Saturday it will only be because there is no one else left standing. The players stuck behind...

Why is that? Because in Europe the highest paid players are the locks. Here they get paid less than the reserve outside backs. So of course any lock that is any good is going overseas. Who wants to finish their rugby career with peanuts and then have to start another career at least 5 years...

Just for the black humour of it I have reposted these after the performance debacle last night. Only six players last night earned their match fees: Gordon, Grant, Maddocks, Porecki, Sinclair and Tizzano. And - three of them were off the bench.

On what the Tahs can pay, no quality league player will come across. They would have to take an at least 50% pay cut. Anyone good enough to earn a Wallaby top-up will go to the Reds or the Brumbies where they can play in a good coaching environment. Add in the fact that league doesn't recruit...

It is hard to know what to say that's positive after a performance like that: Absolutely smashed in the scrum by the Reds reserve front row. Both NSW props are supposedly Australian squad standard. Lineout was a disaster. The breakdown was like a Red birthday party. As in the Gibson era, no one...

The one thing of which you can be certain is that League players will find a way to disgrace themselves at some point in their career. But Vunivalu gets his shot in even before he runs out for his first game.

Another of those forwards who didn't properly mature till their early 20's. It is not good sense to write off tight five players because they're not world-beaters by 20. I hope we don't lose him to France but that sounds quite likely. Picking winners (like McCauley) instead of developing a...