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Wallaby backrow Loooking very well balanced all of a sudden

Not sure I like the balance of our centre pairing and AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) on the wing, but hopefully I'm proven wrong tonight.

Schmoo looked pretty good from what I could see

Beale turned up. I don't see any problem.

Weepu impressive at ten

These kiwi commentators are almost as bad as Kearns and Marto

Can't believe Higgers stats, what was he doing for an hour? Would prefer Samo to start, Higgers on the bench and McCalman probably in the squad as 6/8 cover.

Thought Elsom was very good tonight, although faded towards the end of the match. Match fitness still clearly an issue, but one which should rectify itself with continued game time.

Confident we will get up against Russia. Two things bothered me about the end to the match: 1. After walking all over the Bok scrum at their end of the field, we immediately get shoved backwards 10m at the very next one, which should have been a penalty 2. Kepu's penalty, which was idiotic If...

Stand corrected on A Finger. His defence is an offensive weapon. Must be in the run on team next week.

He is fucking crooked.

That was not even close to being straight.

Why the fuck did Lawrence blow up play at the end then? What a muppet.

I don't like Horwill in the backrow. He is a great lock, probably the best we have, and is not suited to a role where ball running, speed and mobility are key attributes. That's not to say Elsom is excelling in any of those three areas at the moment either, but I am in the minority of people who...

Cooper wasn't terrible last night, but some of his decision-making and execution was poor, eg that cross field kick off the scrum. However, I'm happy to label the performance an aberration. His chief failing last night was the defensive confusion that was a direct result of the back line...

An awful lot of optimism on this thread. I sure as hell hope we win, but the harsh reality is that it is anything but a 50:50 contest. Think we will be close for 60m and get ground down in the end. World cup should be a different story.

Agree he's better at go forward. However, with runners like Moore / Nau, Elsom and Samo / Palu (hopefully!) on the pitch, then I'd much rather a tighter player in his place (Simmons / Vicks). That's not to suggest that I don't rate Sharpie I an absolute sense, but I don't think he's a starting...

I agree that he has improved his work rate, however it's hard to hide from the fact that Sharpie has been a common denominator in many of the Wallabies' embarrassing forward displays over the years. The scrum performs suspiciously poorer with him on and he very rarely dominates in the tackle. Of...