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The poor guys have come through the Brumbies system so of course there’s plenty of issues with them, but I’d back the Reds to iron out all those flaws.

1 Bell 2 Kaitu’u 3 Tupou 4 Rodda 5 Frost 6 Valetini 7 McReight 8 Wilson 9 Fines-Leliewasa 10 JOC (James O'Connor) 11 Petaia 12 Simone (would have been Kahui but ineligible) 13 Perese 14 Wright 15 Campbell

Honestly, full credit to the Tahs that they’re still in this. They’ve been reamed by some howlers of ref decisions but still in with a sniff.

When the ref is against you, the ref is against you. That blocking call was garbage. I’m actually feeling bad for the Tahs.

Brumbies really enjoy jawing off hey.

With all those injuries (and losing LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) after 5 mins) and a week from hell with the floods, I could not be prouder and happier with that win.

If LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) had gotten any lower he’d have been lying belly down flat on the ground.

Anyway, I’ve only caught the second half but To'omua and Tuttle have been crap.

Why couldn’t they play advantage there? The Rebels hooker wasn’t tackled properly so looked fine to keep going to me.

Had no idea our record there was that poor. Force raging favourites.

Injuries to key players (possibly no McDermott, Wright, ASY (Angus Scott-Young), Mafi - Tupou may be 50/50? Is Paisami back?), unable to train at home due to Brisbane floods (forced to train at a nearby high school), and some players missing a bit of training to focus on saving their homes. Force will rarely get...

I really like the Force, am glad they're back in the comp, and wish them all the best as it's great for Australian rugby, but whenever I enter this thread I feel like half the content is written by a slicked up Force PR spin man.

Good post Bluebag. I can really only comment a bit on SLC - as you said some good players have graduated but I recall last year two of their best were the #12 and #13, who I’m pretty sure are back again this year as Year 12s. So that’s good from a combinations perspective. The #12 in particular...

Thanks all. Very interesting. Shows how little I know and understand about concussion.

Serious question: how long until headgear becomes mandatory? I remember reading somewhere a long while back that headgear doesn't actually have any material affect on reducing concussions. Is that right? Seems odd to me - surely it does?

I was laughing a lot during the recent Drew Mitchell-Ben Robinson ep particularly. I really like the format, I hope they stick to it as with a bit of polish it’ll keep getting better.

I watched Between Two Posts tonight on Stan (really enjoyable, it’s simple but good fun) and I was pretty interested to hear the update on the World Cup 2027 pitch from guest Georgina Robinson. Sounds like the bid team are a bit disappointed that they haven’t as yet been able to secure the...

I like this team BR. Although I’d still keep JOC (James O'Connor) on the bench.

I had the misfortune of tuning in at the 60m mark. First thing I saw was a Wallabies penalty get turned around through crowd/TMO intervention on a farcical Samu high shot. Fuck me. As Sean Maloney rightly pointed out, where was that last game in the less up for the Hooper try? We could’ve pulled...

Georgina Robinson in the SMH saying it’s looking extremely likely BOTH Tupou and AAA will miss the match due to concussion. If so, F me. Really hoping they can pull through. Nothing has gone right since we left Australian shores - looking like the tour from hell!