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Gamble has great ability at the ruck but he's a terrible decision maker.

Vern hates the invention of the camera and microphone. Quietly steaming that some upstart Australians were able to interview him during his rugby football match.

He is capable of much better, he just can't do it consistently yet. It'll be interesting to see what Coleman does as Harrison comes back to full fitness.

Yeah, seems to be accepting it's going to be a much longer journey to being a proper 80 minute player and accepting it's best just to play his game while he gets there. Quieter at times then you want for a starter but with all the hard working types in the rest of the back 5 he can afford to.

Gleeson had been a little quiet after the first 20, but so far this has been his best game this year by a wide margin.

I think they've been much better defensively and are doing a good job putting the Blues off their game. Not doing a good job of their kicking though and the depth of the bench will probably kill them.

It's not to do with where the teams are from, it's about how they play the ruck and read the ref. Generally the top teams have adapted this season regardless of where the ref came from. The rest seem to struggle to deviate from the plan they went into the game with and maybe the put more focus...

You don't want me giving the tahs motivationals, if I do it right half of them will quit the game for the monastery and spend their lives in a vein attempt to atone for their sins. The rest will sign with the Reds

Still haven't worked out how the ref is calling it on defence though

It's really just the way they're enforced at the moment, too much favour to the team setting the maul. There's a lot in what's written they could be applying that would help

Support is doing a much better job at the ruck for the tahs now, really sticking to the hip of the carrier to leave no room for the blues

They should've, but if they did I'd be worried about the very minimal improvement.

tahs look great when they play at pace, but their handling is letting them down. A bit on the catcher, but the passes are pretty poor for most of the screw ups

tahs hanging on well here, but it does look a bit like they're just hanging on. Still, if they can keep it up and frustrate the Blues into changing their game they'll have a real contest.

Quick just has to be backwards, go 5m and be thrown with the ball that was kicked out without interference from anyone not on the on field team throwing it.

Good from Edmed, even without a 50/22. Poor from the chase to let the Blues go quick though

Ioane straight out without an HIA confirmed

Gonna need to sign up some of Eddie's patented utilities who can play in the forwards and backs.

Reiko out cold, shouldn't be back

I think I'll live