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You're not the only one baffled by that one FP. Not only Jowitt and Roodt but Caldwell as well.

Have seen a bit of Nadolo over the last couple of years and saw most of his games for JWs this year. He is big and fast, but his hands just aren't up to it, especially under any sort of pressure, and he nearly always loses the ball forward when tackled. He only looks good when he gets a good...

He will be back in Aus in June for about 3 months and has said he will play for Sydney Uni while here, but he is back to the UK after that. From a Wallaby point of view, he is gone. But we'll have him at Uni for a few games!

Had a shoulder recon in the latter half of last season and seemed to be out of favour a bit this season with the JWs. Spent a lot of time on the bench and not much time on the field. I don't think there are any training/ off-field issues, in fact it seems that he is a pretty hard worker. Might...

Great write up, Lee. Fair play to SAC. Any win against Joeys is a good one and this sounded like a very good one indeed.

Man, this is hard. Beale and Turner were OK but I thought Douglas was crap. He did a lot of standing and watching Highlanders going straight over the tackled player to win the ball. I thought Palmer did alright at scrum time, especially when he went to tight head but he missed a lot of tackles...

Maybe that's why "Ducka" Caldwell stayed home ;)

TPN would make my top 4, probably at the expense of Braid (although he has been very good). Kane Douglas, Inman and McCabe would be a show for the rookie award, Turner hasn't had enough game time. If Simmons qualifies, Dave Dennis probably does too. If it is for players playing their first...

Ah, right. It must have been TPN's membership of Team Tonga that cost him then. ;)

I hope so. I hear that he was still struggling throwing a ball into the lineout at training on Tues and he hurt the shoulder again when a scrum collapsed during a live scrum session on the same day. I suspect they would have given him another week if Freier was fit.

and TPN :nta:

Things have moved on a lot since those days.

That's it in a nutshell FP. Couldn't agree more.

My impression is that they have very good medical staff. Sharon Flahive and Tom Cross are the doctors and they are as good as any going around. Competition for jobs like this is very hot so I assume that the physios are top notch. And they have the connections to get them into the best that the...

McCalman is a bit unlucky to go back to the bench after last week. Having said that, I suppose the only spot open for him was Wykes's 2nd row spot and Ben is a bit short for that. Hopefully he'll give them hell when he comes off the bench.

Is the author of that piece one J Kaplan, by any chance? In fairness to BA he was packing down against ScrumFace Baxter and he has been known to collapse the odd scrum in his day. Just because Alexander got penalised doesn't necessarily mean he was at fault. The other thing that isn't mentioned...

?Tom Carter? I think Young Yabbies would have a greater claim on him. PS: please note that I am biting my tongue about the anti Uni paranoia that is once again rearing it's ugly head.

Weeks is a huge loss and BA will have an absolute picnic against Kennedy. I'm tipping the Brumbies based on this alone.

Like your sides FP except you've got Douglas starting and on the bench in the Baa Baas side. Did you mean Dennis at 6? I would go with that. And I agree with Justin Turner getting a run at halfback in the Baa Baas side. He looks like a great prospect. Palmer might put his hand up over the next...

I can't work out why Ducka Caldwell got the chop. He seems to have been going OK when he has come off the bench and is close to regaining the strength he lost when he was ill last year. I think he will be seriously pissed off to be replaced in the squad by Chris Thomson, who has been given many...