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I suspect he knows his preferred 15, but is still working out the 23. Guys like Taliauli, Muirhead, Powell, and McCaffrey are clearly his favourites, and he'll generally pick them if they're available. Others, like Ala'alatoa, Arnold, Pocock, Lealiifano, and Banks, are players he recognises as...

I picked McMahon for the backrow, but he has competition from peak-Elsom and Cliffy Palu, Pocock, Hooper, and Fardy. Imagine if we had all that depth at once.

The Pocock injury happened at the controversial pre-season Wallabies training camp. All signs suggest that it's more serious than reported and he'll likely be managing it all season.

I'm happy with whatever we try to do with our backrow. Cusack should start in Pocock's place. The other two spots can be any combination of Valetini, McCaffrey, and Samu.

Why do that when they can bank on a news story in 2032 about the Wallabies not owning Wallabies.rugby?

Dad's a diehard Reds fan. Loves them more than any team in any sport he's ever followed, even loves them more than the Wallabies. But over the last two years it's reached the point where he'll just turn off the TV and walk away if any small thing goes against the Reds. It could be conceding an...

I don't even think it's bias; it lets him think of Hodge as broad injury cover with the ability to inject himself if a player is underperforming late in the game, and Rona as 11-13-14 specialist cover who can provide more of the same of what Maddocks and Kerevi offer. I was tossing up between...

I'll do likewise. Debate always reverts to the difference between what we would pick and what the coach would pick; so I'll do both. I would pick: Sio TPN Tupou Arnold Coleman Dempsey Pocock (c) Naisarani Genia Foley Koroibete Beale Kuridrani DHP Folau Res: BPA, JP Smith, Ala'alatoa, Rodda...

He has capacity to be good, and capacity to be awful. Consistency of performance seems to increase over a ref's career, so we won't know which way he's going until he gets there. I can't actively praise any refs from the last two rounds, because none have been good. I'm not here to criticise...

We're a month into Super Rugby and I still don't know if either of these teams are "good". Hopefully this kickstarts one team into form to keep the Romanians honest and, with SA being a mess and neither the Chiefs nor Blues looking "good" either, maybe sneak a playoffs spot. Brumbies by 15.

I can't think of many examples of Koroibete letting us down; he doesn't have a weakness in his ability as a winger, and his strengths are in his finishing and his defence.

Hodge in the squad to cover w/e is fine with me. But that doesn't necessarily translate to matchday 23.

To paraphrase Tom Moore: Our fullback options are, realistically, Folau and DHP. We should have a plan for what happens if they both go down, but we should also do whatever we can to never need that plan. I'd be including Maddocks as he probably offers more on the wing than Banks, and that's...

I don't think I've seen a better fullback performance from an Australian this decade than Folau in that first game against France in 2014. A big part of why we flogged them was the defensive shift Folau put in; covering kicks perfectly, getting us out of our half with his running and his...

I've gone for best match in the Gold jersey here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/community/threads/wallaby-team-of-the-decade.18551/#post-1051622 Good fun to try and think back on good games over the last decade.

We're picking based on their best games for us in a Wallabies jersey? Then I'd say it's as follows: James Slipper (2014 Rugby Championship - Game 2 v South Africa) Stephen Moore (2013 EOYT - Wales) Sekope Kepu (2014 Mid Year Tests - Game 2 v France) Kane Douglas (2015 World Cup - Wales) Sam...

Fainga’a has a lot of work to do to get his set piece consistency up. He’s more than capable of performing at test level in scrums and lineouts, but he still finds new and novel ways to fuck them up. He also has the occasional game where he has functionally zero breakdown presence. No team can...

Friends at the game tell me that Royals straight up destroyed Norths; score might look like it wasn't a blowout, but result was never in doubt. Norths scores were so against the run of play, and Royals could have put on fifty if they moved out of second gear. People I know who saw Whites-Wests...