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Fair enough. I think the work done by the Classics has been outstanding and I’ve found none better to deal with than Morgan. If he’s getting an earn out of it I have no issue with that at all.

He also gives up an incredible amount of his own time to try and support rugby. I know part of it is with the Classic Wallabies and I assume there is some sort of remuneration there but I’ve found he is always very generous with his time and is good value across any age group - juniors to...

As reliable as Big Ben :)

Haha - no, I’m joking. It’s off-season - everything is on the table for discussion. It would be pretty boring if people weren’t prepared to throw some opinions out there and, once you’ve thrown them out you might as well defend them. Or contradict them. Whichever is your fancy. I just thought...

Could we possible start debating Cooper v Foley again just to break things up a bit???

It shouldn’t be underestimated the value of having depth players either. Guys who might not make a highlight reel but help the team standard. I’m hoping Luke Jones will be a big signing for the Reds this year for that exact reason and I’d love to read we were adding someone like Ollie Hoskins to...

Guys like Kerevi, Skelton, Salakai-Loto & Isaac Lucas would add spark to any of our existing teams. Then there are a whole bunch of other guys who would just lift the standards of our teams.

No worries. Don’t mind you correcting me. But I admit I am staring at it and also googled it I can’t see what I’ve done wrong.

I’ll be interested how Henry fits into things this year. His selection for Australia A with very little super rugby seems a pretty fair endorsement. Injuries have a habit of clearing up selection headaches but it will be interesting how they configure Henry, Paisami, Flook, Petaia, Daugunu...

Hegarty is a long shot, but if he is any chance at all I reckon it will be because he plays the house down at 15.

Who were the better players? His options were Harrison, JOC (James O'Connor) who he picked and who got injured. Toom’ua who was in rubbish form & Jono Lance. Which one should he have gone with. None of Donaldson, Edmed & Gordon were playing super rugby. Also Lolesio was MOM in the Super Rugby AU final. Harrison...

Yeah - maybe. But does he look like a guy who is going to drive us around the field? I dunno. I completely get why guys are looking for other options. Australia’s development of 10s over the last decade has been shameful. Just not sure Rennie is the one that should be in the firing line here...

What was Rennie’s alternative at 10 realistically. Take a scattergun approach and give them all a couple of tests? Take a punt on one of the others even earlier in their development? Stewart hasn’t been playing 10 for Qld. I don’t see how you can criticise Rennie for not trialling him at 10 for...

I guess the thing with all of these discussions is players have the opportunity to earn a gig. We aren’t going to see many changes - Jones has already come out and said that - but guys like Vunivalu, Gordon, Stewart et al have Super Rugby to convince Jones they deserve a crack. If Rennie was...

I’m with Adam. Love Hamish as a player - but don’t see him close to Giteau in ability. His age isn’t the issue. Will be very happy to be proven wrong.

There was an interview with Kevin Foote on The Roar where he mentions Wallaby staff have said Gordon is on the Wallabies radar. Whether that was before or after recent changes, I don’t know.

Agree with your view (although the figure of $800k had been debunked to my understanding). In the Australia A games he was generally poor. But there was one try we score off three quality contributions from him in the space of about 30 seconds. Which means nothing if you’re poor for the rest...

Happy to agree to disagree. Vunivalu has been off the pace but he’s still done some things that are beyond the capacity of our other wingers. He’s deservedly down the pecking order at the moment and he has it all to do. Nothing short of being outstanding at Super Rugby will change that. Jones...

Agree it’ll probably count him out - but I think they’ll at least consider him. He bounced back to form last year and is a level above any of the others.

Yeah - Bell looks excellent. His scrummaging still needs to improve but it’s not bad. And he’s a big strong boy so you’d expect they’ll get his technique right. When you look at our results on EOYT but realise we were missing Bell, a fit Tupou, Rodda, Cooper, Kerevi, Koroibete as well as depth...