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I reckon a large proportion of the Aussie rugby followers will have the Force as their second team. Good, gutsy attitude and developing their local playing group very nicely. They will put some hurt on some teams this year. I was just glad the Tahs squeaked a win.

McCauley and Swinton do appear to have promise and I haven't seen enough to know about Tolealofa. But I reckon Lukhan-Tui would be rated number 2 tight head lock on that list. You're right though, the lock talent is not very well spread around the franchises. The Rebels would love a bit of...

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Reckon Lukhan may want to come home next year now he's rated number five in the pecking order (assuming you meant Lukhan-Tui and not Hendrik). If you meant Hendrick then that's even more reason to bring him home, he'd be much higher rated than that at the Tahs.

All Super games are on Fox, but in the early hours of the morning. If you've got IQ you can record it while you sleep, if you've got the old set-up and a PVR that works too. Failing that they replay all games Tuesday/Wednesday.

That number looks exceedingly dodgy until you remember he got a yellow card for a team infringments (maul collapse). That got him minuses for penalty conceded and yellow card. I doubt Folau has ever scored 3 after 80 minutes, that is just totally weird. Worse still he was my captain. :mad:

Well that was a strange round one for me. When you've got McKenzie, Folau, Kriel and Hooper and together they total 51 points its pretty weird. Usually several of them get more than 50 on their own! After the first game and Reiko Ioane's heroics I thought I was off to a great start; but no -...

That's an automatic yellow and the Meakes one was a borderline Red. You don't have to like it but those are the protocols laid down. This ref's going to get a lecture from his assessor for the Meakes miss.

Scary thing is, the Sunwolves weren't that bad. The Hurricanes were scary good.

You follow a team with your heart but you bet with your head. On that basis you would put money on them winning the conference unless the odds were too short.

I think you got that wrong. Ardie is tearing it up at the Sunwolves.

Yeah, right. The ref insisted the lineout be taken outside the 22 and then yelled out clearly "taken back". "Lack of clarity" was actually "Frisby stupidity"

First 100+ win in Super Rugby. Canes up 24-0 after 14 minutes.

I was sort-of with you until the "Lance playing 10" comment. Until he got injured last year he was playing great and the Force looked a cut above where they finished. As soon as he went down their season was over. By the end of this season he could easily be our reserve test 10. The...

Particularly for the first round, choices have been exceptionally difficult. The Thursday start-up makes it especially difficult, because about half the teams (most Saffer teams) haven't even been announced! Although Fox now allows you to make changes after the start of the first game, it still...

You've got the best scrummaging hooker in Australia now and Cowan is no slouch. Coleman will be your TH lock so that side too should be fine. You won't suffer at the scrum, your vulnerabilities are elsewhere.

Yeah. Like our top team dominated the Highlanders in the first 30 minutes of the trial so they had to bring on their reserves. Right! Right now I wouldn't guarantee that our first team would dominate their under-20's. Fortunately we don't play a Kiwi team till round 6 so we've got five weeks...

Maybe Tamanivalu at 13 and Ioane (Digby) at 11? Dagg very likely to be 15.

Given the trial form you wouldn't want to be a Bulls supporter!

To quote the epic Matt Rowley: "SupeRugby is SupeRetarded."