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Its refreshing to hear a coach admit this though, too often we hear coaches talk in meaningless cliches or blame someone else for their teams performances. Also good to see that he trusts his captain to make calls on how they see the game, many coaches these days would have drilled into their...

Kings beat the Rebels 3, Tahs beat the Kings by 62, only logical conclusion can be that Tahs will win by 65 on Friday.

Can the title be amended to the proper name of the touring team, they are the British & Irish Lions. We wouldn't want to ignore 9 of the touring party Disclaimer: This post may be slightly tongue in cheek

I agree that McKibben is paying for the first half against the Brumbies, he has been decent recently apart form that. I wonder if it is a tweak in the game plan to go wide quickly and try and isolate one on ones against the Rebels back 3? With the passing ability of Lucas, Barnes and Foley we...

Not too happy Kiss is being kept on, not because he isn't a defensive good coach but because Ireland are continuing their culture of rewarding failure. Apparently Mad Dog and Jackson will start one game each, having watched Jackson closely the past few weeks its clear that he has really gone...

Was a bit worried when I saw Carter at 12 in training with Horne bring JOC (James O'Connor) for the day. Figured Barnes was in the team, and he was just taking it easy for the session. Never noticed how loopy Ulugias set piece throwing was as well, it is ripe to be picked off by any defensive line out. I'd say...

The Lions already have a robotic kicking leg in Owen Farrell they don't need another one. If they need another 10 I'd call up Madigan or Hook.

The Tahs dropped bonus points will do for them in the end, ignoring the Cheetahs, 2 against the Canes, 1 against the Bulls and Reds. They aren't totally out of it yet but are relying on a lot of results to go their way. I'd have to agree with Lindommers final top 6. The Stormers could be the...

It was nice of Gatland to appoint himself the Leinster team doctor and media spokesman. Joe Schmidt won't be a happy man! The Lions are gone if Sexton goes down. They can't beat the Wallabies in multiples of 3 and won't get no where near the forward dominance they are expecting. Don't be...

the NZRU wouldn't put their national team in that position in the first place, but in the hypothetical scenario of a fired up Samoa at home I'd back BNZ to beat them comfortably

I saw Michael Cheika on Fox Sports News today saying he hoped to get something signed in the next 2 weeks. Izzys management will probably want to hold off until the end of the Lions series so Cheks could be optimistic on his timeframe

Swat I love the optimism! Just said to myself "C'mon the Tahs" as I was reading it. God I need to get back to work...

The Pacific Nations Cup is live on Setanta Australia, Fox Sports don't have their listings up for beyond June 3rd ditto ESPN and Eurosport Sky Sports are covering the Ireland tour in the UK so I assume Fox might get the feed for that? France BNZ will be on Fox as well I assume. Given Fox...

I play Barnes at 12, tough on Horne if he's fit to be dropped, but I liked having the 2nd kicking option in midfield. Does take away Hornes ability to get over the gain line, but if our back row can get on top that shouldn't be an issue

Melbourne is the only game I'm waiting on, everything else arrived Friday as well.

Back on Cheika, he took a Leinster side with a piss weak underbelly and turned them into a defensively solid, hard nosed team that were hard to beat. He couldn't take Leinster to the next level which was the all singing all dancing free flowing team which Joe Schmidt turned them into. His main...

Think the Tahs will just have too much up front for this one, also Michael Hooper looks in smashing form and the Rebels just don't have enough to match the Tahs here I think. Both backlines are playing some lovely stuff, I think with Folau, Foley and Barnes the Tahs have just a bit more...