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Back to Ealing was the rumour, no?

Did they not play in an A game down at Rams not this week but last?

You know gimmick accounts are supposed to be humorous right? Like @rodha

Clearly he's laying the groundwork for Tawera Kerr-Barlow to make his debut in the Canary jersey against the All Blacks in the town of his birth. ;)

Mind games a plenty.

I believe he deserves another chance, but not only would that see him in the role for 10 years, I think there's about 4 metrics that the SRU will be wanting to look at. 1) Performance in this years World Cup. 2) Plans to improve away performances in the 6 nations and on tour. 3) Ability to...

I think there's some underrating of Valetini going on too.

pinching italians now tut tut tut

Uelese in ahead of Mafi, Lonergan in the squad but no Gibbo? Banger squad for the head scratchers

Not particularly. Was a case of next cab off the rank if Eddie needs a closer look at a player he might need to call on, what with both Hoopert and Bell missing the entire Super season. Never been a huge fan of him, as a 5th choice loosehead you could do worse.

Would Tom Robertson not be in your squad given Bell's injury?

We need to learn to turn up in the first 20 minutes more often than we are.

Old boys go brrr

I think conflating a 3-5 game tour spread across 3-5 weekends with a 10 game tour spread across 6 is deliberately disingenuous, and that's before you consider that it's closer to an extended Barbarians setup rather than a modified international one. In 2013, 6 players didn't join the tour until...

46, 49 & 41 in the last 3 tours. Both include all players called up even if they never got on the plane to start with, whether through injury or other reason (Dylan Hartley and Ben Youngs in '13 & '17 respectively), alongside the "call ups of convenience" for mid week games: of which only 3...

I don't see it. While he's still "capable" elsewhere in the backrow, eight has become his primary position, Doris is only 24, Mercer is coming back for England and Taulupe continues to defy expectation, and that's before the fact that Fagerson's consistently won the battle for selection when...

Whether it comes to THAT specifically I don't know, I'm sure in a scenario where one of TT & AAA is ruled out and the other was under a cloud, continency plans around someone like HJH (Harry Johnson-Holmes) would be made, but all it takes is a niggle or a stand down period followed by an early injury for Pone to be...

I don't doubt that something like that would be going on, and if all others things were going well I'd think it reasonable. But between AAA's concussions and Tupou's Achilles it feels like a dangerous game to be deliberately conditioning the "projected" third tighthead in that manner. Reckon it...