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Tom to call? Hey I'm behind the bloke, and will be watching with enthusiasm.

The second row looks like it is really inked in. And it is short on what we might usually call primary jumpers so we have to look to the back row. Hooper © is not really even a secondary jumper, long balls maybe. Samu jump? Skelton can rate as a secondary jumper, and lifting Hooper © could be...

Strangely, Hodge over Foketi may be because EJ (Eddie Jones) wants Carter Gordon on the bench. No wait, don't laugh yet. It's tricky to have a specialist FH on the bench, especially if you also need a specialist 12 (Kerevi) on the same bench. And you're not going in without a HB on the bench. Hodge starts and...

I’m pleased to see the Eddie thinking and that it is genuinely a point of difference. Don’t mind the head-scratchers but we will naturally want to see how it is implemented

Ok, sounds like ruling the guy out is not such a silly thing. Not being involved before November is one thing, not interviewing until then is another.

If we are to be considering a decent HC list in this time frame, I'd hope that it would have more than one who have RWC commitments. If we are avoiding that sort of current employment, it's going to be a pretty poor list. If a candidate can't leave the board thinking they will lock in for 3...

Now that is something I follow. It's a different take than having a problem with his availability during the RWC though.

Emotionally I agree and support your thinking. Influence-wise, I feel like we are lucky to have an invitation. Is it our remit to rock the boat? WR (World Rugby) has a role here, it isn't an RA role.

Is anything there surprising? Cheika being favoured is great, ( though I'd love to see the full list) but not having time till after the RWC is kind of obvious, no?

Just to be clear for Namerican, count the letter "n"s.

Brilliant, Reg. How frequent does the board meet - monthly?

And good luck to the bloke.

White deserves plenty, though hard to suggest that Faf had nothing to do with it. Was it Estebeth on AAA? Now that is an interesting precedent.

The only issue (if indeed it is) is neither co-captain starting. I'm liking that pack all the same, BR.

Slim, I'm not really saying anything about tHooper, but the the one thing I am hoping for from EJ (Eddie Jones), is surprise.

That's a bit like rolling your eyes when someone has the audacity to suggest a slap could be coming when someone leads with the face and finger at it showing where exactly to aim. I like that he's pulling up the conversation on Equity (you could equally say with dismissiveness "I knew that...

We seem to have a narrow view of what the leadership group does.

? um, OK, that is not my experience.

As in actually correct? What ever the stop/start in rugby in NRL it is every single phase - by the laws of the game.

So if we are going down that second tier malarky it would be an alternative to the usual first tier being roughly the to 10 and you'd recognise the heavy hitters as: First tier: Ireland, France, New Zealand, South Africa. Usually you would probably add England and Australia based on historic...