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Didn't an almost identical thing happen last year with the Blues? Won their first game or two nicely, Kirwan dropped/rotated/whatever a stack of players and they lost pretty handily to the Bulls?

Did anyone hear Tony's post-match conference? I missed it, haven't seen any coverage of it either. On another note, I wish the Rebels would release their internal stats from the match. The stats you get on Fox, SANZAR, Rugby Stats, ESPN etc. are all so variable that it makes it incredibly...

Based on Jones' efforts tonight, just how important is he going to be this season? Is it completely ridiculous to say he's the second most influential behind Higgers?

Jones will have to play lock. Neville really was a complete liability tonight. People are going to be very, very, nervous about him being on a rugby field for a good long while after that. McMahon was anonymous tonight - hesitant to label him a flat track bully after only two games, but I wonder...

Lahiff was just ineffective. Neville was truly awful. Jones almost single-handedly turned things around when he came on. Woodward was hands down the worst player on the park though. One of the worst individual games I've seen in a long, long, time. He was the only player worse than Neville...

I agree with all of that, absolutely. And with the rest of your post. All I'm saying is that he's played to a very high level before. And, to me, he looked wildly underdone and not ready to be playing. He's going to get better. Christ I hope so anyway. What we've seen is that he's going to have...

For being completely awful? Neville in particular. He'll be lucky to be on the bench next week.

I think that's very harsh. He's got an outstanding pedigree, has been playing to a top level for years now, dating back to age grade sides. Looked to me tonight like a player who's hardly played any rugby for a long, long, time. I'm not defending his performance, which was abject, but suggesting...

Cheers mate. Your boys were good for every single point of that result. Fantastic win.

Just to compound the misery, the sanctimonious bullshit coming out of the Rebels Facebook page is more than enough to bring out the Malcolm Tucker/Genghis Khan in everyone.

Congrats Force. Brilliant rugby. With the exception of Jones, Smith and Weeks and the Kiwi whatshisname off the bench the entire team needs to be hung out to dry. Starting with McGahan, followed closely by Woodward.

He was outstanding last year in the starts he got. Horrible tonight. Looks badly underdone to me.

Ha I bet! It's been brilliant rugby from the Force.

Thoughts. The Force are playing fucking good footy. McGahan is a fucking muppet for making those changes. Jones > Neville by such an enormous margin it's just stupid. Smith > Lahiff Mitchell - still isn't up to it. Woodward - should probably try catching the ball. Maybe a different...

English out with a virus. Mitchell to start, that young Kiwi, Veainu, to the bench. Anyone going to be at Turf Bar tonight?

Can add an extra couple of pinches for mine then! We're all trying to figure things out based on a ridiculously small sample size.

Mate, sorry if it came across that way - wasn't my intent. Can see why the sexually aggressive language might not have helped, mind. I was just trying to muddle through the possible reasons for the selections made. The 'weaker' in quotation marks was meant to denote that weaker is obviously a...

He has to be thinking long term here, trying to work out a few combinations/alternatives against a 'weaker' team. Looks like there's a few guys who are locked in until something egregious happens but there's a few spots up for grabs. 1,3, 5, 7 and 14. Alternatively he's just trying to pick a...

I picked that both props would change, as well as Kingston for Mitchell. Jones dropped for Neville is absolutely ridiculous. Don't like Roberts for Hegarty at all.

Wooo Colby! So very, very, happy. Kingston really should start. Wouldn't be surprised if either PAE or Lahiff (or both) started. Thought they were both impressive off the bench against the Cheetahs. Horie onto the bench makes sense. Two or three changes sounds about right. Don't want to...