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Not sure I like the word "hamstring". We have managed to avoid some of the soft tissue problems that the other teams have had (eg Rebels) through our good S&C program. Please don't put the mockers on it. This should be easy money, except that the Cheetahs are our bogey team (along with a...

On the Fox Sports website there is a full 1.5 hour replay available. If you've got Chromecast you can even send it to your big screen TV. I would check it out soon, I don't think they leave it up for too long.

Now that he has changed the gameplan, the Force don't need a new coach, they need better players. The loss of Jono Lance was a disaster - the Crusaders game was a win with him at 10. But they need four or five really good imports from the east coast/NZ/wherever. They need a higher salary cap so...

I wanted to "like" this post but like just wasn't enough. We have found our new THP and his name's not Ta'avao, despite the last scrum tighthead.

Hard marker. Last game they got beaten by the Sunwolves so its a significant step up from there. They won't make the finals but I think they'll be mid-table by the end. They've got four home games in the next six after their bye this week. One of their away games will be against the Kings.

I vote we abandon this thread, the stats are altogether too disappointing to be on a family-friendly website such as ours. They inevitably lead to much swearing and cursing in two large countries and heaps of smug, self satisfied commentary in the other. :) As it stands right now, the Lions...

Rugby 360 is better this year than last year, when I thought it was pretty dire. But Marto is doing a good job if you define that as being a goose. He's the one negative in a room full of positives. If you replaced him with Nathan Sharpe, who is very straight-forward and definitely not...

A team always needs to keep its head down, especially the Tahs. Of those games, only the Crusaders game is away and I reckon that game, particularly if its a close loss, is the only one we can afford to lose. I am expecting that the last round will decide our season - away to the Blues at...

Incumbency is a great thing to have when you're not playing well and To'omua/Kuridrani will be thankful for 2015, as it gives them a chance for selection that their current form just does not give them. On form, and assuming Kerevi is recovered but Tomane not, the backline would be: 9. Phipps...

I think a lot of people are looking at the game with the glass half empty, mainly because they are terrified that the Tahs wk 1-5 are just a moment away.Thinking back to then its hard to imagine that Jeremy Tilse and Angus Ta'avao could take a tight head off the under-8's, let alone the best...

The Sunwolves just ran out of juice on the end of their four game SA tour and capitulated. Classic first year result. St. Xaviers under 14's would have got almost the same result.

Right now, if Kepu came back we'd all be really happy. Except for Robertson. He needs to play THP week-in, week-out for 18 months against Super quality loose heads. If Kepu comes back, how does that happen?

Chiefs should beat the Sharks despite the injuries, Jaguares at home against the Kings is a no brainer. For mine, the clash of the round is Lions vs Hurricanes and I expect the lions to take it. They have been very impressive and the Hurricanes less so. Bogan Barrett may have got a million...

Tragedy!!!

This is an absolute understatement. Look at their team and take out Lood de Jager, Torsten van Jarsveld and Oupa Mohoje (only included because his name is unforgetable and the quota). None of the others will ever get near a Springbok team or even be talked about to make a squad. If the Reds...

I remember the Waratahs playing Invercargill. We either got flogged by 40 or annihilated by 60, depending how wet it was. Hopefully playing under the Dunedin roof has turned the Highlanders soft, but I doubt it. This is probably the most crucial game of the round, considering that the loser is...

Do you mean he deserves to get benched or he deserves the bench spot over Latu?

I thought Tana might be the saviour for Auckland but he can't select a team to save himself. Tu'ungafasi should be starting at LHP and playing 65 minutes instead of playing 35 minutes at THP. Earlier in the year Tu'ungafasi at LHP was absolute dynamite! With Weeks out the Rebel scrum is very...

Agree your kicking has been good but you have so missed Jono Lance's work at 10. You'd have won a couple of the close losses with him on the park. IMO Prior will be at least as good as Grant in general play. You don't lose that much in general play if Godwin comes on at 10, but his kicking is...

You might. I think he's awful; totally negative. He's running in a very poor field though.