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The field kicking was pretty shocking: particularly for touch.

At least two absolutely shocking kicks in there.

A fairly good game of rugby despite Berry's best efforts.

Love Petrus as an individual and player but not certain he's a huge loss as a coach.

Ouch. Very high quality barbs. To be fair, you can't expect too much from a nation that thought being "the lucky country" was something to be proud of. Cynical recruitment of players of tier 1 nations bar the Argies, and wealthy nations below that is a thing, and you can be as unhappy about it...

Folks always say what benefits them the most. I've got no problem with Sione playing things up if he feels he needs to justify himself: certainly looking at the vision during the anthem at Murrayfield there was more than enough passion to feel happy with that. Mosese is obviously still 3 years...

Ouch. Missed the soft underbelly though. e.g. Where is Loeriesfontein? That's in Scotland.

Queenslander, played once or twice for the reds, got offered a fancy scholarship for a brisbane school, all the same thing. Cue the music:

The World Cup is the onyl time WR (World Rugby) genuinely expects international teams to play more than 3 games in a row, and they've been constantly (in recent editions at least) extending out the squad sizes and length of time between games wherever possible. In the 6 Nations and RC sides are never...

I mean, purely theoretical Calendar years yes: particularly for the right type of player in terms of position played, body type, overall skillset & early developer, you could see them playing 20 or more Calendar years of pro rugby if you stay out of Europe: with a chunk of that being made up of...

2011 is an interesting one: in retrospect you can squeeze Giteau into the final squad, particularly for Phipps as his only appearence was off the bench to the wing. But Deans clearly had decided that he wanted two carrying centers in each game alongside Quade (hence the selection of Fainga'a...

Tamati Ioane also absent. Interesting one: in the absence of Rob I would have thought his point of difference would have been a big part of balancing the back row. Unless Ekuasi is currently penciled into the 23.

I hope she sees this bro

Indeed: the french have 14 Top division pro sides and 16 second division pro sides: both of whom will play a minimum of 30 games this season (H&A for both + 4 european games for Top14) before European and domestic playoff: the 45-50 man squads before academy/WTS is absolutely necessary for...

Creating depth has always been a problem. Without injury, we could still easily put out a international standard side composed of just home developed players, as we normally get 2 or 3 U20s each season who succeed DESPITE the coaching. The following side for example is not as good as the one...

Need to rewatch (especially the first half) but for me, nothing new about that result in both a positive and negative sense for Scotland. Strong reliance on 2-5 players to have big games and be clinical, then hope the defence holds on. Thriving off of turnover ball, set piece and broken play...

Nope next week against Brumbies I think

The coaching comment was actually aimed at Danny Wilson: time in Scotland Camp and under Franco/Horne/Murchie has done wonders for him. The gametime was the slight aimed at Australian Rugby in general.

His skill set, confidence and leadership ability all continue to grow and I'm very happy he's on board with us. Exposure to different coaching and actual minutes on field at a good level does wonders for players.