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I would go 9 Genia 10 JOC (James O'Connor)/Cooper 11 Ioane 12 Barnes 13 AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) 14 JOC (James O'Connor)/Tomane/Mitchell 15 Beale Cooper notified to tighten up his defence asap or see himself relegated to the bench Bench White or Phipps (tough for me to say on White as he didnt get a minute in the welsh series!) McCabe...

not sure i agree. saffy for the better part of 1.5 years has consistently been in our best day in day out. his work rate is fantastic as is his defence. he might not be an out and out fetcher by neither are higgers, jones nor chamberlain. higgers will obviously take blindside in my opinion...

Neville pyle jones and james king are out and out locks. Not too sure about king? Think he was injured this year? Yes chamberlain and Davo not ideal but as options 5 and 6 they aren't too bad. Agree re back depth. Forgot we also have lojo

figured as much. byrnes on his way out. that leaves us with second row stocks of pyle, neville, jones, chamberlain and even davidson. a lot of hard work in those stocks. backline? phipps, JOC (James O'Connor), Vuna, mitchell, inman, gerrard, beale. kinghi, hilgendorf......need a few backs! especially if...

don't forget saffy's sublime defence. neville has staken a pretty big claim to the second row alongside pyle. saffy at 7 for my money, if he's available. a bench that has Jones and Davidson/Chamberlain is pretty solid and we are in a nice position to be well covered when injuries inevitably...

if saffy is playing i suspect we'd see saffy at 7, higgers at 6, delve at 8 and jones and davidson/chamberlain on the bench to cover the back row and second row. starting to look very good cue the "we should be signing props" comments.

yes sorry. 30-10 italy over the USA in Houston - which i think is a new market for an international test. strong result as they now have a few cities they can play in and attract good crowds (houston, san fran, seattle, denver)

USA lose 30-10 with two red cards in front of 17,000+ at BBVA stadium in Houston Huge crowd, a record on us soil. Canada beat Georgia in Vancouver yesterday. Very poor crowd of 3,661 largely due to poor venue in suburban Vancouver and bad weather and Vancouverites generally not getting behind...

I'd put sharpe ahead of him Both pape an nallet were superb for France in the world cup Thorn is still playing Beast Bismarck Castro Nallet Thorn Kaino Pocock Read could do lobbe or parisse Genia Carter Jane Roberts Smith Tuilagi Dagg Mealamu Cole sharpe Obrien Hougaard Beale sonny bill

YES. No way he would be in mine

I like 9 Genia 10 Barnes (no reason to unseat him after his exceptional play) 11 Ioane 12 McCabe 13 AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) 14 JOC (James O'Connor) if available otherwise Tomane or Mitchell 15 Beale 20 White 21 Horne, Faainga, Tapuai or Inman (a great hard yards centre) 22 Mitchell/Tomane

he could also be timmy horan mark II!

have to hand it to julian, he turned his form around massively this year and has looked quite good. i was a hater last year, but good on him.

Not Convinced JOC (James O'Connor) is better than Barnes or LILO at 10. He's a future 13 for my money.

no it shouldn't have. your 30+ plus stadium is worse than ours for rugby. besides you get south africa...every year. i'll swap you. Vuna is in the team as a result of injuries to drewster, tomane, lachie turner, JOC (James O'Connor) and probably a couple others. he's a solid attacker and his defense is...

gees. that is bad. but italy were pretty woeful that year i think...not the team they are now. I like the strategy the ARU are adopting in sydney going forward, unless its going to draw 60,000 plus - its at allianz. repeart for melbourne.

i'd like to see argentina in 2023...keep the growth momentum going. I'd imagine most fans from the home nations would all love the opportunity to descend en masse to argentina. 2027 revert to SA or Ireland with some or all of scotland, wales and italy (a rabodirect world cup)

just finished watching the replay. a very thrilling game. almost as good as ireland nz which was bloody fantasic. BOD perpetually unlucky in love with the southern hemisphere nations. the crowd was really dissapointing. 34k....previous games v ireland and the all blacks in melbourne have drawn...

7,500 at the game in Kingston Ontario which was a bizarre choice for such a test match against the USA. 13,000+ v Italy in Toronto on Saturday night http://www.rugbycanada.ca/leagues/newsletter.cfm?clientID=3817&leagueID=0&page=62102 It was very close till the last 8 mins. DTH van de merwe...

I think it will be a close game. we should be fielding a strong team again. beale and mitchell have been making an excellent combo 10/12 channel and i liked how well mitchell handled first receiver when beale had gone into contact or slipped out more wide. vuna is back in great form which is...