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The first season they didnt really have anyone. Look at their starting team. Other than Cannon and Sharpe, there wasnt much there. Then there was the player power issues and the Firepower issues. That caused some real disharmony in the club, and wasnt Mitchells fault at all. Last year, they were...

McCalman has been used as lock in a few games last year. Coupling him with Sharpe is working. However, Sharpe is not young anymore, and has maybe 2 seasons left in him. The Force (and Australia) need a lineout general to take over from him. That man is not McCalman. The Force have Battye and...

So what do we go for next week then? Fatcat Moore Slipper Simmons Sharpe Elsom Pocock McCalman Genia Cooper Mitchell Giteau AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) Turner Beale Fa'ainga Ma'afu Mumm Brown Burgess Fa'ainga JOC (James O'Connor)

3. Sharpe 2. Beale 1. Pocock

Oh FFS people. Yes we are not the best team in the world. We are third. And not far off second. Deans has made some interesting selections certainly. But if he does not think that a player is up to test standard then why select them in the Wallaby team? I would much prefer to see a quality...

Ant can play 13. AC can cover the back three if needed. McCalman played lock through the S14s and he is capable there. Also, McCalman adds a lot of mongel to the forwards, that we are missing. Barnes is the one guy there that confuses me. I would have thought that we would have been better...

Good point. And they would be taking two playmakers in regardless with OConnor at 15. So Bart to 22, Spanner to 12. And having two big running centres in Spanner and Inman would be good, with Inman able to learn off the more experienced Spanner.

I dont believe that the Springbok would devote the same importance to beating Australia as they do to beating NZ. They would have targeted that game, with 95k spectators and after a 3 week layoff. That was their big game. It was much like when we met them in Brisbane. They had targeted the games...

The Boks will have thrown everything they have at the ABs on Sat night - they would have been up for it, and put everything they had into it. They will be physically and mentally spent and so wont be up for this game. The Wallabies on the other hand will be going over there confident, and...

Exactly. If they want big money its available to them in rugby. There must be another reason for them staying (and in Ioane's case I know its because he wants to be at home). And by making a name in rugby there are far bigger dollars available to them than if they jump ship now.

The Brown Hornet, Turner is having a knee recon. http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/-/rugby-union/7420929/stannard-eyes-a-return-to-force/ Out for 8 months apparently

Turner is broken, so I would expect to see Stannard come in as the back up halfback. Swanepoel is the other scrummie they have but dont see him getting a bench spot yet. And wouldnt be surprised to see McCalman start ahead of Wykes. But in the long run, Hocking needs game time as once Sharpe...

Who are we likely to see back before the end of the 3N? As far as I know, these are the players we are waiting to get back: Alexander - season TPN - ? Horwill - ? Palu - ? Hynes - ? Chambers - ? Horne - ? Ioane - ? Anyone I have missed. Who of that lot will be fit for the Boks...

I also think one of the big problems with our forwards not moving when they get the ball in that Genia passes to them, not in front of them. It isnt a bad pass, but equally isnt a good pass. The forwards know that if they start moving forward, the ball could go behind them and they wont be able...

3. Pocock 2. Sharpe 1. Beale

OConnor was on his right shoulder the whole time yelling "give it to me." Elsom decided to have a go and ran sideways into him, and then had to kick because there was no space left. What was anyone supposed to do? Elsom didnt give it at the right moment, as he felt that he could beat the...

1 Robinson 2 TPN 3 Alexander 4 Vickerman 5 Sharpe 6 Elsom 7 Pocock 8 Palu 9 Genia 10 Cooper 11 Mitchell 12 Giteau 13 Horne 14 Ioane 15 AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) 16 Slipper 17 Moore/Fainga'a 18 Simmons 19 Hodgson 20 Burgess (by necessity) 21 JOC (James O'Connor) 22 Hynes But I hasten to add that Vickerman...

Who comes into the squad to cover Horne then? Turner? Inman? We are going to be sorely tested at 13 now with Horne, Ioane, Chambers and Mortlock all out.

Robinson Moore Ma'afu Mumm Sharpe Elsom Pocock McCalman Genia Giteau Shepherd Barnes Horne JOC (James O'Connor) AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) Fa'ainga Slipper Simmons Hodgson Burgess Fa'ainga Beale The only changes I will make are to bring in McCalman for Brown to try and get some mongrel in the squad and drop...