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Work rate of our tight five at the ruck means we're not allowed to have nice things like a Kieran Reid-esque 8. Also doesn't help how often he was played out of position at 6 - his ball-in-play strengths were always in wide channel running, not playing around the breakdown.

Wasn't the Chibba stuff an almost inevitable result of the contract lengths our hookers were all on at the current time? I'm fairly certain it's been covered here before and that his departure was inevitable outside of a circumstance involving buying out another player's contract (if that was...

Thoughts on Greg Martin and his thoughts:

I'm pretty certain it was a tongue in cheek remark.

He man-shamed Burger in the Springboks try zone. It has been a quiet last few tests for the guy on the "big hits" front.

The scattered posts about Timani providing a boost to the line out say more than enough about the state we are in :S

Perese's balance in contact is freakish and something that I don't think can really be "taught". Very excited to see how he goes at the next level.

Perese is still on the books with the Reds for this coming season, right? If we took one of the most maligned backs in the NRL over keeping Perese I'll be a bit upset. Glad to hear Lukhan is still building in the right direction. He's impressed me a lot up to this point, adjusting very well to...

Any observations from the Brisbane City loss?

Not sure but I believe the combination got some time against Argentina under Cheika and it didn't look like anything worth pursuing.

Folau's kicking technique is generally pretty alright but he struggles with choosing when/where to kick and sometimes kicking with pressure in his face.

Please, no.

Catching the fucking ball would be a phenomenal starting point - grip gloves for everyone

And was one of our best through the RWC but I guess you can't rely on all commentators watching all (any) of the games :)

Rough but we didn't deserve much after the way the boys played against Argentina

That sloppy game against Argentina is gonna haunt USA big time tomorrow. We're gonna get slaughtered if we come out that flat against Fiji.

Fiji run rampant, winning 40-12

Fiji come out to play in the second half and run in two tries fairly quickly without much fanfare. Tuisova is more than a handful one-on-one. 19-5 to Fiji.

Fiji go coast to coast and look like they're going to get in after the hooter before a brave Brazilian defensive effort knocks the ball loose and ends the half. BBC announcers refer to the Brazilian player as Spanish during their home Olympics.

Didn't take long for Fiji to get in once they had the ball. Typical Fijian 7's, lots of cross-field runs with trailing runners inside and jinking up into a backpedalling defensive line that's too apprehensive about their offloading game to commit to a tackle and stop the attack. Conversion is...