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For me the one of the most interesting selection battles is the selection of the Blindside Flanker. Blindside Flanker: This is a battle between Mowen and Dennis. McMenimum seems to be in some people's calculatios, but in reality this selection is likely to come from the initial 25(ish) man...

I agree that they should select a third hooker.... BUT I'm not certain they will.

The ARU have not yet turned their back on Phipps or White.....

Given that this is a home series and players can be drafted in, I'm not so certain that we'll see a third hooker in the 31 man squad. Everyone here seems to think that Burgess will be selected. I'm not so certain. I think the reason that the second halfback wasn't named is that there is a bees...

Fixed.

I believe the words used were 'toughness' and it wasn't directly quoted from Deans... it was paraphrased by Mogg himself in an article where he said something along the lines of "Robbie is looking for more toughness from me".

Yes. Warren 'Waz' Livingston.

Nope. That's what you call a cunning, theiving halfback.

TOUCH SOME WOOD IMMEDIATELY

Fotu AUELUA, No 8, Brumbies - Super Rugby, Western Districts, ACT, Campbelltown Harlequins Can someone please explain how Fotu qualifies? The Campbelltown 'quins play in the Sydney Subbies competition. As far as I'm aware, Fotu is Sydney born and bred.

I think your right in regards to the halfback, althought I wouldn't be suprised to see a hooker added (probably Hanson). This would allow the third hooker to learn the lineout calls in the camp in the case that Saia or Moore goes down (TOUCHING WOOD LIKE CRAZY)

It's a simple equation in my books...... AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) is the current. CFS is the future.

You mean "1 + 34 year old Fijian No.8 / wing and a prayer" right?

The Oaks was great during the world cup - with big screens all over the place. Hopefully they do something similar for the Lions tour. Also love Sapporo. Nothing quite like ordering "Waratah's Sashimi" or "Brumbies Teryaki' off the menu while downing a litre of Asahi.

Kurtley Beale to play for the Galloping Greens this weekend in the Shute Shield. Apparently he's successfully completed the first round of the rehab program.... Thoughts / opinions / views on whether he'll make the additional six men added to the Wallabies squad????

Scratch that... Whoever works in the media department of the ARU either smokes crack or didn't listen to the team annoucement. It has AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) listed as a fuillback, Barnes as a centre and Lealiifano as a flyhalf.

Has everyone missed the bleeding obvious here? It says position: Winger. Can we read anything into this?

This is exactly the point Braveheart was making. People misrepresent what Palu does on the field. Timani and Palu are very much two different players, dispite both being large lumps of grade A Tongan beef.

It will be interesting to see how (or if at all) this impacts the composition of the final six added to the 25 man squad. We could potentially see Mitchell or Mogg added to the squad as cover.

Watching Scot Allen's most recent analysis of the BI Lions front row (in particular Jones vs Robinson and Alexander vs Healy) dominance is less likely than the second coming of Christ. Parity would be a huge achievement.