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That game was 11 years ago and Stuff still can't let it go and still can't put the writer's byline on it. I'd be ashamed if I had written it too!

Cue all of NZ criticising him for devaluing the jumper. Will it happen? Of course not. Over the ditch they know a lot more about season fatigue and how to rest players to get optimum performance. Our biggest problem is having the depth to be able to do it.

Announced today: Three more players cut from the Tahs squad. Wilkin, Roach and Sandell are out. The last two I can understand, Wilkin not so much. I know we have a multitude of lightweight backrowers but I liked his style of play. Injuries cursed him, but I thought he played OK this year with...

Maybe its time to adjust what we are trying to do. My backline would look like this: 9. Genia 10. Foley 11. DHP 12. To'omua 13. Hodge 14. Folau 15. Beale That is picking the best players in their best (or close to best) positions.

Ask yourself the question: "Would a Canterbury supporter, indeed a NZ team supporter (excluding the Blues, who beat us by the way) be happy with that result for their season?" They might be happy to get to the semi-finals, but when push came to shove we were strictly a class below the top...

I did have a very negative view on our chances pre-2018 and I think that view would have been justified if the Brumbies hadn't taken 15 rounds to develop a winning gameplan. We have good players in our pack but absolutely no balance. Everything is biased towards speed and when we meet the...

No doubt about it! If you follow the trend line of Gibson's squad over the three years he has been head coach they have got progressively lighter and progressively more mobile. You might exclude that trend as an outlier if it was just one year but its not, its three years. Quite clearly in my...

Well, no one seemed very happy with the game against South Africa, even though we had half our best team out. So how do we expect to go this Saturday. Will Pocock, Folau and Coleman be back? Will it make a difference?

Taqele as written but in Fijian style its pronounced Tanqele.

Wow. Totally missed that!

The man thinks and speaks like a Queenslander in full retard mode. I wish Fox had kept on with Sharpe, despite his occasional F-bombs. He really spoke intelligently about the game (and yes, I know where he came from, its how you commentate that matters).

Based on the last couple of years, I reckon that means Gardner is a lock for the final. Peyper, Gardner and Jackson have been adjudged as the three best referees over the comp. Best one gets the final, the other two get semi-finals. The only thing they have done differently this year is to send...

Its a Gibson speciality. He loves high workrate, low power forwards. All the power forwards except Kepu are at other Australian franchises. In some ways I hope we don't make the final against the Crusaders. Despite the game in round 15(?) we will get smashed off the park by their power...

Given Rona was poor last week, that really sets the cat amongst the pigeons!

Lost in all the noise about the conferences is the fact that this is the Jaguares first time in the finals. I know the Lions have altitude, Marx, and a few other goodies in their favour but this jaguares squad can, on their day, tear a team to shreds. This is not over by a long chalk. I'm a...

Its not that we lost or even the margin. The problem is why we lost. We had no forward dominance (this is a nice way of saying we got smashed at the collision) and our backs all tried to run at the cornerpost. Our kick-chase was lethargic and our defence had no sting. The Clan would have to be...

The solution is so simple it'll never be adopted. Just make the tryline go behind the posts instead of in front of them. Then we can go back to playing rugby in the right spirit.

Brad does not see selection as other mere mortals do. Form and potential are but minor concerns in the grand scheme of things.

I think he was just trying to get inside your head. The Brumbies starting scrum might be slightly better with Fitzpatrick at hooker rather than Latu, but if the Reds scrum didn't demolish us the Brumbies certainly won't.

I agree Holloway has a lot more to prove. If the Tahs make the final he'll get no better chance to prove it up against the likely Barrett and Whitelock. In his last audition he was totally outpointed against Philip, but I haven't seen Philip have a better game ever so maybe he is still in...