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Yeah it's great Bullrush. Shame Tracey doesn't provide the stats for both teams in the game.

Thanks for the mention What2040 :) Just on that I think its fair to say ruck and maul counts are a bit hit or miss (haha). Hit or miss or not, I think it is fair to say anyone who only rated say 2, 3, or 4, looks pretty average against Horwill's 14, and Rocky/Moore's 10. Unless they have been...

[delete long rewrite, too difficult to read, insert one line summary] Harris you dumbass.

Can't speak for others but I became a fan on the back of their talent in 2008. In 2009 it was their finishing that worried me not their team. Hmm, what does that remind me of? As an aside, as of this year my number two team is the Tahs. Beauty of living in Melbourne, having lived in Gold...

They have had four probables vs possibles, and two guest invitationals.

Harsh call IMO to say smiths intercept was a poor option. He'd never pass the ball! I am far from saying he didn't push passes, just noting he hadn't in my view done so in the first 15, and I think that's interesting. Smiths intercept was actually the point, it was likely a reason he stood...

I am in the middle of analysing it, but I can say that in the first 15 almost all of Quade's options were excellent, they just didn't pay off in tries. Ironically his one mistake was running. It was a mistake because the 'gap' he chose was McCaw and Kaino. Sobering thought to have those two...

For those interested in stats analysis, it's on my blog, but the video analysis is aways out, won' t complete it till later in week. In the meantime... Setting aside leadership discussion for a sec, my analysis of the game is that the best forwards we fielded out and about on Sat were Horwill...

I can understand coach questions after losing to Samoa, why are we debating the coach for the Eden park game when we haven't won there in 25 years, are playing one of the most successful nz teams in history, and held them to 3 tries to 2 when we played poorly and they played well? Some of us...

Had Cooper passed another only to be intercepted pass we'd all be calling him a twit for not learning the first time. Let's not criticize him too heavily for his decisions,as long as he is making them. It's the indecisive Cooper that worried me.

Seems Deans learnings resulted in this Ma'afu & Samo join squad to Saffaland

Tbh I could care less what haka the ABs do. It's their gig but it gives both sides a chance to amp up. The reason we struggled in the first 20 plus was failure to defuse the ABs speed game. It's not the first time the ABs have gone turbo in the first 30. It's not sustainable for a game...

3 Ioane 2 Horwill 1 Genia

Classic ABs blitzkrieg, surprised our guys bought it. Thought Nonu was superb and Smith not far behind him. Carter was superb at sniffing out overly bunched/ flat D. All that said, that was the ABs at almost their best and we still had our chances, two tries and three pens begging. Higgers...

RH, it seems to me your argument is a little circular. Link takes on a team with a core of good players that show great promise but have brain fades and can't see a game through. By 2009 Deans had already invited ridicule by chancing his arm with Cooper, just as he chanced his arm with Pocock...

WJ I agree with you on most things, but not about Gits. I think it has been long known he can play 10 but shouldn't. He has been a great 12, and outside say Barnes he could be again. But outside Quade last year it just didn't work. With regards Brumbies Gits was the captain and chief...

Have to say I think his mobility is back mostly VRF. I have a test I like to call Ath's Flanker Test. Whenever theres a closeup in the game which flankers do I see? This year, first time ever, Richie struggled, really noticeable in the semis and final. Vs the Boks? Practically in every...

I can't say I have been a fan of Gits play in recent years, he seems to play rogue rather than combine and his lateral play drives me nuts. As a 12 outside Barnes he is an option with the Wallabies playing a more traditional game. Outside Cooper, in my view he is an unmitigated disaster. As a...

I don't profess to be an expert re the laws of the game, hell I still struggle to detect why the whistle gets blown as often as not in a ruck, but it seems to me that interpretation, timing, and plain old what gets seen by the refs drive a lot of breakdown penalties. I dislike cynical fouls...

Haha, hope so MR. Wouldn't be the first time I missed internet irony.