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I completely rate the guy, more than Nonu in fact. I think Nonu is prone to brain fades in defense that our backline can prey on. But for some reason that isn't apparent to me SBW spends all of his time playing the team game when he should back himself to break the line more often. Maybe its a...

4/3 enables Deans to give people gametime/opportunity who badly need it. Burgess plus 1 means we have to choose 1 place for Mitchell/Horne/Barnes/AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper). Same argument for the forwards needing time tho, so even tho 4/3 is my personal (backs biased?) pref for the early games as we build up I...

Don't see Deans changing much myself, certainly not inside centre. McCabe is a defensive lynchpin for us. Growing in attack , injects himself into the breakdown, utterly fearless and a machine in defense. Definitely a convert to AF, he's really shown class and aggression in the last two...

3. Samo 2. Vickerman 1. Genia HM - Elsom, AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper), Horwill. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk

Without trying to excuse Cooper's rubbish I would not be surprised to find Richie has been doing some good niggle and sledge work to rattle him. Either way definitely agree Cooper needs to stop this crap.

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/forum/showwiki/Docklands+Stadium just saying :d

Heh undercover those two centres had some of the best defensive stats in super rugby this year, they'll hold ok.

Rapt to hear Taps played so well, I thought he was superb in the Super Rugby final. Mitchell being in form is very good news indeed. Going to be a lot to discuss come Sunday though I doubt the lineup will change much, at least in the xv.

Now you are just being patronising. And to suggest other countries are 'utter shit for years to 'jam' a tournament win' is nothing short of arrogant. There's a few possible reasons for why Kiwis have lost so many times. One is arrogance, one is that nasty five letter word they hate so much...

Stand him down from the RWC? Did I miss the part where he was missing training sessions and dealing in roids?

Is it as simple as Simmons is the preferred player and isn't carrying an injury anymore? I also wonder if we aren't more effective in lineouts with Simmons in, but hell, hard to judge when Sharpe was competing against Matfield and co. I certainly think Horwill likes having him there. edit...

On the topic of no 8, is it just me or does Samo put an impressive amount of power in when he packs? I am no Thomond, but to me it looks like hes transmitting a lot of power in.

For me motm was Jaque Fourie. He's gone up in my estimation from superb to gifted in the past two games. Broke the back of the kiwi onslaught twice and that let the Boks back into the game. Did it to us last week too. Surprise is everything in battle and as far as I am concerned rugby is no...

As a Tom Carter fan I'm not afraid of controversy, but are you sure it was this site? Not Dean's mum's fansite?

Damn you Gagger, this thread had potential.

Gotta give Deans and Link credit really, how many coaches could have him on the field without ending up with blood pressure problems?

eh?

I reassessed of my view of Gits with the 'fuck off, I'm Captain' incident. It was the right decision, but the way he went about it was a revealing insight into his approach to rugby and his team mates. If a sports 'hero' showed that kind of attitude to my kids I'd have no qualms posting in...

yup you stopped? Aussies don't hate Kiwis MR. Love em and those cute lil chips on their shoulders. Hell, we don't even hate smarmy poms. Sport would be so boring without Kiwis and Poms. We'd have to start playing baseball. It's only cheating if you get caught apparently. We are learning...

AP - It's not disinegenuous at all - thats the form they bring into this years test rugby, and tackling is a stock in trade for a centre that has to be done day in day out at both levels. If anything I'd see SBW having a shot at edging Nonu out because of his defense - Nonu's veers wildly from...