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I’d suggest Arnold, Frost & Philip are the other 3 locks, Holloway & Leota are the 6s, White, Cooper, McDermott and Gordon are your halves and I reckon Kellaway is a good bet for XV. One of Leota, Samu, Gleeson or McReight will fill the bench role. So I guess if the certainty we are looking...

How much uncertainty is there really. To me there are three main questions - - is Tupou fit enough to make an impact? - who is out 7? - Is there a changing of the guard in the halves (beating in mind that White and Cooper can come straight back and and/or are good enough to play as closers from...

I just think Jones is playing the cards dealt to him as best he can. Cooper was the logical choice but he’s clearly still a bit underdone. White was the logical choice at 9 but has been a bit sub par too - although personally I don’t think he should wear as much blame as he has been as neither...

Does anyone have any insight on whether Peni Ravi is likely to be retained? Also, any updates on the recoveries of Hoopert & Nasser?

Random question - whatever happened to Allan Fa’alava’au?

How many different guys do we give a run to? Wilkins had a good year, but I don’t think he was better than McReight.

I guess not then

I joked about us signing Simmons and Coleman but in all seriousness Simmons probably wouldn’t be a bad get in terms of what might be available.

It doesn’t seem that long ago we were complaining there were two many rookies in our team.

I find the criticism of McReight from last weekend interesting. He made 19 tackles with no misses, including a couple of dominant tackles. He made 21 metres from 4 runs (ESPN) stats and seemed to play the link role in attack well. He threw one bad pass I remember but otherwise seemed one of our...

Gleeson & Samu aren’t slow. The difference is that they don’t have the workrate/field coverage of McReight or Hooper.

I assume when people suggest Samu or Gleeson at 7 they are endorsing a game style where the 7s role is more like a second 6 (noting that most teams don’t leave it up to their 7 to pilfer at the breakdown)

Sure - because a lot of the time we punters miss the detail (and, to be fair to him, it was in a game where the ABs belted us and - by design or bad luck - a lot of that came down his channel. The other thing you said was Samu better than Hooper historically. If you’d said over the last 2 yrs I...

I think Samu is unlucky - although like others I suspect Jones is just having a look at Gleeson. But you’re grossly overstating Samu’s output. In one of those games he missed 5-6 tackles and made a bunch of passive ones. He has filled the role of bench forward well, but to suggest that...

I think it’s about how we frame that. For me the focus should be on improving our development pathway so we improve both the quality of quantity coming through. You’d hope that you were then well positioned to keep the cream. You then supplement that with 1-2 key signings as required. Where we...

I thought the really positive thing out of last game is that Carter showed he can cover 12 adequately in need. He already has experience at 15 in Super rugby, doesn’t he? In which case one of the potential risks of having him on the bench - that he only plays one position effectively - is...

This is devastating. Theo played his junior rugby at my club. I’m going to feel terrible booing him next year.

3. Nawaqanitwase 2. McReight 1. Skelton

I questioned Nawaqanitwase’s reliability. I’m very happy to say I’m sorry Mark. Great game - well done.

BR’s post is hopefully overall pessimistic. But I disagree anything he said is without foundation. Slipper does look to be really struggling (and he is a Brumbies player). The debate on Porecki was done this week but even his supporters seem only to be able to defend him with ‘he’s the best of...