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Just sitting at the Directors Dinner before the game starting to get excited for the game-which is pretty cool as a Blues fan. GO THE BRUMBIES

The reason Pocock plays tighter in attack, IMO, is because he is less likely to get smashed than Hooper might. Going up against the big boppas - the Ben Tameifuna's and the Ben Franks and the Bismark du Plessis' of Super Rugby, I'd prefer to have Pocock hitting that ball up over Hooper. Hooper has...

Holy crap - a 97% tackle success in 45 Tests is unbelievable. I wonder how many tackles that amounts to. What a friggen machine.

The reality is that there weren't good enough to be the No.1 Test choice. Not sure that this changes a lot simply because No.1 goes away. I remember thinking how unlucky Marty Holah was when Kronfeld buggered off and McCaw came up. I thought that the gap between McCaw and Holah really wasn't...

How will opening up the eligibility make rugby more popular?

6-Fardy, 7-Pocock, 8-Palu/Higgenbotham/Hell-take my Grandma You start Pocock every game you possibly can. It's that simple. He is head-and-shoulders above not just Hooper but almost every other 7 who he plays against. It's not rocket science. Man - I hope Cheika has this much trouble...

With my AB fan hat on I'm gonna say that I have been wrong this whole time - you should start Hooper...

If you want to play for the Wallaby's then you stay and prove it against the best non-Test comp in the world. If you want to have the cash then you can chase that but the jersey is reserved for those who still wish to show why they deserve it. Pretty simple really...

When Jimmy Goppeth is the starting 10 in a top 4 team, it's not hard to see why. How do you know who the 'best of the best' is when they aren't even playing each other? Or when the level of the respective competitions may not be the same? Again, I hope NZ never goes down this track as I...

Didn't Fardy win it in 2013 and Slipper last year?

There is at least one game where a huge amount of guys here basically said that Pocock damn-near won the game by himself. Not some game against a minnow or an end-of-tour or exhibition game either. A RWC QF. I haven't seen any Wallaby game since where you guys have been so strong in advocating...

They weren't picked over their alternatives a lot anyway were they? Why would that change?

Let's be honest then: NZ and AUS have regularly gone over in the Spring Tour and - last year being the exception - been more succesful than not. When NH team tour the SH, how often do they come away with wins? Until the Lions win here in 2013, there was some serious talk about the Lions...

I've said that NH rugby isn't as good as Super Rugby and provided a few examples of why I think that. I've never said that it's crap. @Blue - which top Super Rugby team would Ali Williams, Jimmy Goppeth and Michalak be getting regular starting spots?? Riki Flutey could hardly nail a starting Hurricanes spot...

This rule changes that when Kepu goes O/S, he actually doesn't leave a spot vacant on the Wallabies. So a youngster may think to himself it's not worth sticking around on a smaller salary - he may as well go overseas and make a few dollars. Up until yesterday, Kepu dropped right out of...

Alternatively, younger guys may choose to go earlier. Let's say Kepu and Slipper head overseas next year as the 2 best Wallaby props. A young guy may just decide there's no benefit to staying here and playing for the spot that would have been left vacant by these guys - they are still eligible...

SBW is grasping at straws. He hadn't played a single professional game of rugby before he left. Hard to get worse. I honestly don't know about Montgomery

I've talked before about both Leon MacDonald and Jerome Kaino and how I think Japan was almost like a rehabilitation stint for those guys with a huge ginancial benefit. I heard MacDonald in an interview not long after he got back talk about how the games weren't as physical but the training was...

I guess it depends on how you rate Super Rugby and SH rugby. I think that Super Rugby is the highest level you can play apart from Tests. Players are pitted against the best from the 3 nations that have won every RWC bar 1. To date, for whatever reason you may give, there just is very little evidence...

Elsom is only 32 now? He would have been what - 26 or 27 when he came back? Injury or not that should be in his prime. And I really don't remember anyone back then thinking that he was old or past it. He just wasn't good. If guys are only heading over when they are past their prime, how do you...