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Messam's antics as water runner are insane. It must be a deliberate tactic. No coach would allow it otherwise.

Hooper's speed for his try off Skelton was excellent. He was easily outpacing all the surrounding backs.

Was Arnold on his knees?

They'd like to. Last night they got some consistent front-foot ball to do it. You need Skelton lumbering after the play ahead of him, just on the verge of catching it.

The phrase "lost up to 4 lineouts" is a bit of a red card when arguing one's statistical credentials. A bit like "the victim died up to once" would be for a paramedic.

Bloody Marto, mistakenly calling the Brumbies the Broncos in the heat of passion. For fcuk's sake.

Mate, we were too busy performing our core tasks of beating the war drums about Daryl Gibson and conspiring to have Michael Hooper selected to post on here about Fat Cat.

Goanna Gibson.

Wins by 20? The Brumbies 52-10 vs. the Canes. Matching it? Highlanders 30-26 vs. the Tahs. Crusaders 20-19 vs. the Force. Granted, a very poor record, but Australian teams have nonetheless won slightly more that 10% of their games against Kiwi opposition by 20 or more. That's about the same...

Woo. Good win Tahs. And a big step up at the right time from the Wallabies in the team. Phipps was outstanding. Palu had his best game in blue for a long time. And Folau was back to his involved best.

All true, Gnostic. I'm just providing an example of someone discussing boring in outside this forum.

Richard Loe on Castro (and everyone else within range): http://m.nzherald.co.nz/richard-loe/news/article.cfm?a_id=227&objectid=10610797

I'm prepared to give the Wallaby scrum plenty of credit. They managed to get on top of the England scrum, despite Marler boring in, up until the time Marler started being penalised for it. But they didn't make Marler bore in by some application of the black arts. Boring in is part of the black...

99% of lineout takes go to the man it's called to. It's a meaningless measurement. Losses and steals on the other hand.

I think Naivalu would give Morahan a run for his money.

We'll have none of this sanity here. The long-established game plan is this: Hysterical overreaction in the early phases. A period of pretending to pull together. Shock and horror. Solidarity.

Yep. I've come completely round on Houston. It was just such a surprise. I guess I should read the Bath Chronicle.

I'll post a picture of my half-consumed hat on the weekend.

If the coach sees potential in a young player then surely that's sufficient cause for a bolter? It's not a Big Brother style of democracy of fans, yet, thank goodness. Who knows, Cheika might be right.

Tim Horan, Mat Giteau and Tatafu Polota Nau were all picked after a grand total of zero provincial games. They turned out okay.