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He is quality for half the game, always has been I would rather a "lessor" player who can function in attack and defence than trying to hide someone for half the game I see those continual compromises in player selection half the problem with aus rugby, more footballers, less athletes for me...

Or can tackle

Lolesio deserves being persevered with, JOC (James O'Connor) hasn't played for months

Without a workrate from the team the chase, put pressure while keeping structure the best kick will look horrible

Both, this side has few players that know where the other will be under stress, they haven't played together enough to have that understanding

A team full of units who have never played together = one out running, no defensive cohesion and a million errors

I think I would prefer Kellaway because he is more of that 14/15 hybrid and they have learnt not to kick to Marika so who ever is on the opposite wing is going to be catching a lot

I thought Gordon was quite good last night (a massive improvement) , his issues were when the runners were too slow to reload and the lack of urgency in the kick chase, "contestable kicks" actually need to be contested

Yep, I thought he got better as the game went on, they all did pretty well and improved (except Wright)

More likely swapped, we don't know how much training Gordon was actually doing As well as early the French were rushing effectively giving no space, later in the game that slowed markedly

I do wonder if Koroibete was under orders to come back to the centre on kick return, he is usually likely to attack the edges

Koroibete was a beast and Paisami showed enough - the rest were all below par, they were .............. well the standard aus tripe, too many fancy passes under pressure, not enough simple effective basic catch, pass and support while working the arses off the running lines and get into support...

Banks? I would suggest he didn't lock down his spot with a quality display But that is the same as most of the side, we were quite terrible for large parts of that game and even when we were doing OK the structure, realignment and support play was quite crap But it was great to see them...

I don't think they have ever played with each other before

Ffs

Sorry but "talented" as to what? he can catch the ball

His defence, his link play, his ability to hold the ball in the tackle, his ability to beat a defender

No, too many games in too short a timeframe

They like promoting the next shiny thing, building them up, then trashing the coaching staff if they don't score 8 tries while starting each game next season It is the circle of rugby life

Good analysis