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Think you are way out of line here. It isn't 'disrespect' to believe you can win, or to remind yourself that at the end of the day your opposition are only mortals with two legs and two arms. You are being suckered by some wind up media and a few wind up internet fanbois.

Well said Riptide.

Doubt Quade will ever show Carter's skill in defense, but for all his silky skills Carter does not match the freakish distribution and linebreaking skills of Quade imo. Carter wins as the complete player of a traditional 10, but in terms of value on the park to Aussie I'd tip it to Quade. Doubt...

Plowing 15 mins in vs the ABs >>>> 80 mins vs a local team, and a lot more informative to coaches I'd expect.

Yup, also reckon there's a sense that after years of waiting and frustration, instead of seeing a series of players who may or may not deliver, we are seeing our team, as a team, and it's a pretty damn exciting one. We can win on sat, but you know what, First and foremost I want to see a...

Wallabies team: 15. Kurtley Beale, 14. James O'Connor, 13. Adam Ashley-Cooper, 12. Pat McCabe, 11. Digby Ioane, 10. Quade Cooper, 9. Will Genia, 8. Ben McCalman, 7. David Pocock, 6. Rocky Elsom (Capt), 5. James Horwill, 4. Rob Simmons, 3. Ben Alexander, 2. Stephen Moore, 1. Sekope Kepu...

Can't fault the cartels method, for the longer picture, but I reckon that lineup could implode for them for this game. Mils, Sivi, to a lesser degree mealamu, and the Ali/thorn combo. All players who have been great, but Long in the tooth and many of them little to no game time. We can but...

Might be by Sunday tho VRF... I won't be at all surprised to see Vickerman do well, assuming he gets the game time he needs. I must say I am starting to think BarBar and co were right in the podcast, but like all spots in the team, nothing is certain.

Bet he wanted one tho! twas a feeble attempt at irony, not a crack at nick, as I posted elsewhere I thought he played better than some have given him credit for, not least a try assist.

lol, I think Simmons is doing ok. Whitelock vs Boks: 7 tackles, 4 runs for 11m, in first 3 to breakdown (atk) 23 times, 1st 3 breakdown (def) 3 times Simmons vs Boks: 13 tackles, 3 runs for 3m, in first 3 to breakdown ( atk) 22 times, 1st 3 breakdown (def) 6 times. He is keeping his head...

A sidestep?

Maybe Poms are motivated differently but I'd want to be wearing colours that say something about our team, not one that says 'wanna-be-all-blick'. Should have stuck with the anthracite, looked good.

To be fair tho Minorbird, this isn't a set of statistical analysis using, say, chi square analysis to assert correlations, it's a basic summary of players performance and work rate. It is no different to fox sports data in that sense, and can help clarify by reducing bias, something we are all...

Their best three. I prefer Jane, Dagg, Toeava at FB, but only because Mils really lacked run speed vs Boks. Gear is the other option, I know Sivi played well vs Fiji but I think he is lacking his old turn of speed. Let's face it tho, all of them are potentially devastating.

Think you are highlighting a limitation of stats tho Joe - they don't show quality of play just quantity. Take Horwill, huge player for us, but not even on the tackle list. Yet I can recall at least one instance where he and Elsom hit a Bok forward so hard the ball popped to McCabe and the...

Continuing on from my review of 6N vs 3N Playstyles, I thought in the build up to this weekend's Wallabies-All Blacks showdown, I'd review the performances of the players in TN1 and TN2*. Leading up to the huge game this weekend one of the Big Q's we all have is how will the breakdown pan...

Fair point Bruce though for myself I can tire of repeated criticism of coaches. I had issues with the bagging Mooney copped in 2009, as I do that of Hickey and Deans. I became a Reds fan in 2008 on the back of the style of rugby he fostered. The cynic in me wonders what we would find on...

I want to see Samo and Beau get a decent shot as I rate their impact and want to se if they can bring it to the next level but I have no issue with Deans & co selecting their form team for this game. Expecting the SA tour to bring some opportunities tho.

Is there a restriction on RWC squad fwds/backs breakdowns, ie 16-14, 17-13 etc?

I'm not so worried about our last 20. Deans subbed out the whole leadership group in the name of giving people a run - Elsom, Horwill, then Genia, Pocock, by the time Sharp has it hes 3rd Captain, to the point it really was a FFA. Henry didn't do that and you could see McCaw and Carter really...