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Joe was already committed overseas before Koro was a twinkle in Cheika's eye. He's one of my favorite players and the most exciting winger in Australia but he's also been regularly injured during test windows for the last two or three years. That makes it very tough to lock down a spot and...

Aren't they still refusing to bring in outside coaching? It's going to be a lot longer than 16 years before China makes any kind of splash if that's the case, sorry.

To be fair it's a very, very alien game from an outsider's perspective and I can't think of a single sport in any other region of the world that could be used as an effective analogue to help people begin to understand the game without being directly to exposed to it before. Aside from the...

..Cheika was using Folau at 12 on our set piece plays and he actually was doing a job in the role so I'm not sure where this comment is coming from. Really poor form and you should just stay away from the Enter key if that is all you have to contribute. Anyway - what impressed me most about...

It would be the French Barbarians match, not a test.

Then we have a coaching and talent identification/development issue. (Though I heavily doubt the scenario described above will occur)

Well if our other wingers could be a combination of A) not injured and B) not slow, Koro wouldn't have even been on the radar.

Cleanout accuracy, like FP mentioned above, is a huge element in this equation of getting our groove together. It's hard to get units in position across the field when we're throwing more bodies into the ruck than absolutely necessary. There have been some pretty dire cleanout efforts made by a...

Seen some strange posts on various parts of the site commenting on the age of Higginbotham.. he's the same age as Kieran Read but hasn't had to put his body through the Super Rugby/Test rugby workload cycle in close to 2 years.

You bastard

Itoje is a poor example for making the argument to blood young players in test rugby for the sake of them being young players. He was by all means a very developed professional rugby player by the time he ever stepped foot into an England camp. If anything it was a slower blooding process...

He's already been released I believe, and has been playing for Toulon.

Eh it's hard not to feel pretty sorry for those girls - the entire nation knowing you just got cheated on has to be incredibly embarrassing.

@Mst - You'd have better luck reading tea leaves to predict the winner of the next RWC than you would trying to divine truths from the Richard Graham and immediately post-Richard Graham era of the Reds. As an aside, your post above confuses me BR. McIntyre is not a good kicker while Greene has...

It would be funny if it wasn't nearly true.. current depth at 10 nationwide is pretty abysmal

So something like this? ;)

Tatham wasn't the guy pushing that mutant form of "pro 7's" was he? Would really like to see PRO given another 2 or 3 seasons at least before USAR backs any other ventures, verbally or otherwise. Do we really have the depth in talent to field a side in an expanded Pro-12/Super Rugby...

The Boks gave a new meaning to the term "shackle dragger" with how often Pocock was coming out of a defensive breakdown with a new, 250lb piece of ankle jewelry.

Don't the Irish do something pretty similar to the above suggestions? Although, it did just blow up in their face a bit with the Pieenar/Ulster situation..

Our attack in general play was not good in the first two English tests and a lot of that was Foley playing like a metronome and not working to change our point of attack until the match was nearly over (but he had ball of questionable quality so not as much time on it as he should have had -...