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Strang will be on the bench, surely

I'd have Tom Wright in the 23

I believe top paid players took up to 80%

What a year he has had. Undoubtedly will end up in Gold!

From The Aus today - no mention of Super Rugby but I am sure an interesting read for anybody following this thread... The Kayo sports streaming service is accounting for more than 30 per cent of Foxtel’s major football match audiences as ratings for the NRL and AFL boom. Foxtel has enjoyed...

Revisionist history because they don't like the decision he made.

9. White 10. O'Connor 11. Koroibete 12. To'omua 13. Tevita 14. Petaia 15. Hodge 21. McDermott 22. Hunt 23. Maddocks

And don't know what competition they'd be playing in next year if they stayed here

Great stat Scott! Do you have a list of the Top 20? Be fascinating to see...

Paul Cully speaking about this all in more detail this morning, from 7:35 onwards:

9-15: White, To'omua, Koroibete, JOC (James O'Connor), Petaia, T.Wright, Banks. 21-23: Tate, Lolesio, Hodge.

Andrew Swain is doing a fantastic job IMO

I love hodgey in jersey 23 in gold. Allows a 6-2 split, which I think we may especially need this year with a dearth of experienced locking options but some exciting backrowers to rotate through.

I guess whoever is next up in the NSW/Junior Wallabies pathway. Didn't have anybody in mind particularly, just think it's not the worst thing if an incredibly loyal servant who is eligible wherever he is in the world has his wages paid by a NH Club and we can continue to develop next man up.

If we feel like we've hit peak politics in Australian Rugby, wait until we introduce a national Club competition which sees big teams in QLD/NSW fail to qualify (results, or administrative selection) and sees professional players switching Clubs willy nilly. Will be unbearable...

Yep, I take that point too. But we don't have a competition locked in currently and the well is fairly dry...

I don't understand why people in 2020 are still not paying for journalism. Apologies in advance if you pay for oher subscriptions and not The Aus, but the constant posting about paywalls on this site astounds me

Quite the contrary - here is a known quantity who is eligible for the Wallabies under the current deal and is taking a spot in a side which could go to a developing lock, a position we definitely need to build competition for spots in. To me, sounds an absolute win-win

Clubs have normally named teams internally by a Monday afternoon, with minimal changes. Creating an event of it - jsut like the AFL, whose teams are named Thursday night and first revealed by their broadcaster (7) on Melbourne news, is the way to go about it. It's definitely an improvement on...

. My personal power rankings of Australian-based lock options: 1. LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) 2. Simmons 3. Phillip 4. Neville 5. Hanigan 6. Swain 7. Blyth 8. Lee-Warner Others include McCauley, Staniforth, Stolberg, Hosea, Haangana, Haylett-Petty, Frost, Wood, Pugh, Grant, Atkins. To assert that he's "not very...