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See Brumby Runner post above.

Results are better evaluated with hindsight. If you set down arbitrary requirements (say we must beat SA home and away) for it to be a good season and it doesn't happen because we cop a couple of red cards or the heavens open and we lose by a point or some other factor then maybe it will still...

I don't think I can find the words to express how distraught I am at Lomax's defection. The comments that "we have lots of other good options" just do not understand how good Lomax is going to be and how valuable a tight head prop is to the team. I had Lomax pencilled in for the world cup squad...

I don't think it was just confidence, though maybe that's part of it. He had a breakout year in Shute and NRC and everyone expected that he would continue improving at the same rate once he hit the Tahs. But it doesn't usually work that way. Far more often growth comes in spurts, followed by a...

Last Saturday night was so diabolical that I am trying to obliterate it from my memory. Thank you for bringing it back and setting my rehab back at least a week. I genuinely enjoyed/ was excited by/ inspired by the Wallaroos game. They are not tier one; NZ, England and France are a long way...

After last Saturday's debacle, I cannot say loud enough just how good it was to watch an Aussie team destroy another by smothering, fast line speed defence. Forget the last 15 mins, in that middle period, 15 minutes to 65 minutes, every time the Irish played through the pods they got smashed and...

You can always rely on the ARU to make the wrong decision. The Rebels have been absolutely crap all year. Wooden spoon, three points worse than the Sunwolves! Horrible crowds (who wants to watch crap like that) and somehow "financial issues" meant the Force go and the Rebels stay. The Rebels...

Goal kicking lost us that game and I think any realistic chance of a finals place. I don't agree Ireland were better, if we'd kicked the two gettable conversions we were home in a tight one. One out of two meant a draw. Overall I thought it was an excellent performance between two evenly-matched...

I'd like to agree with you so we could share the blame around, but it is the coach's key function to demand top performance from his players and then to act if he doesn't get it. This year Gibson needed to: Tell Hanigan, Dempsey, Wells and Holloway to get into the gym and not to come out...

The whole team has turned into a clusterfuck. We sure do have a mobile back five. If we were playing sevens it might work, but this is 15's and we are going to get knocked into the stratosphere every time we enter the collision zone. We do not have anyone who can bend the line in close except...

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There is some truth in this. Hanigan is in his first season of playing Super at the Tahs. We are at a huge risk of crucifying what should be a huge talent for the future. NZ would not think of giving him a test start unless he had two full seasons of Super behind him. He's too young and...

Well, here's some disagreement: The Scots represent a real challenge. We must select our biggest and best team or we will get resoundingly beaten. Robertson is not better than Smith and Smith should start. Supposedly Sio is fit and therefore he should be at 17. If he wasn't coming back from...

Hanigan's best position will be 6. If Dempsey and Hanigan share that role next year that'll be good. Hanigan is too light and too easily knocked backwards in the tackle to play 4 or 5. Simmons would be an improvement on him (not by much, but an improvement). To counter the Kiwi teams we need...

There is another game Friday, so particularly in the pigs, you don't want to cook your players with three games in the week. Given that England is the key match, our draw is just about ideal and if we select as we have done we'll maximise our chances. If anyone in the dirt-trackers is going to...

If the rumours are true, I am not that impressed. We've got lightweight locks who can jump coming out of our ears - Hanigan, McDuling and McCauley - and Staniforth is like for like! We need TWO rockshifter/explosive runners and we haven't got ANY. We'll end up playing Hanigan and McDuling as...

I've sort of cooled down too but in retrospect I still feel the Waratahs are right to be aggrieved. One of those two TMO decisions we could have withstood but the double blow was just a bridge too far. Each time the decisions pushed the momentum back to the Highlanders. In a game as evenly...

Well, that's our good 40 and we should be up 14-3, but we're only up by one. Can we please, for just one time, play the second half like the first.

And the Sunwolves will be back next year! to help the Aussie teams get more points. Venter does look the goods, doesn't he.

Time to eat some humble pie. Brache had a blinder, I didn't see one dumb error and a lot of spectacular takes. Mea culpa.