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With Cheika now the Waratahs Wallaby coach, have had to change my selection of who I predict will be the RWC 23: Paddy Ryan Tatafu Polota Nau Sekope Kepu Will Skelton Jed Holloway Dave Dennis Michael Hooper Wycliff Palu Nick Phipps Bernard Foley Taqele Naiyaravoro Kurtley Beale Adam...

Catch anything yet?;)

In a test you should be playing your country's best players. But if the likes of Cooper, who many punters believe is better than Foley, can't get a game in their preferred position, then that's a very sad indictment on the wisdom of the coach . Because Cheika knows Foley from being his coach in...

I'd like to see this being a game of two halves. By that I mean to have (as we do), Messrs. Phipps & Foley for the first half, and Ginea with Cooper in the second half. Not just 20 minutes. That way it will allow a better understanding of which pair of the four halves adds the most to the team.

Tsk tsk... not nice. Just cause the Irish gave the 'Bok a flogging.

Interesting fact that 6 of the 7 most highly ranked players for the Wallabies against France in GAGR's Democracy in Action on the RHS menu are forwards. And that the loose forwards , Hooper & McMahon, were the two forwards excluded What does that say for the backs? Probably that they need...

Interesting that 5 of the 6 most highly ranked players for the Wallabies in the Ranker on the RHS menu are forwards

Shit Scrubber, all these years of my playing/coaching/refereeing/following rugby, & yet I learn something new every day.:p

That's as close a definition of hell as I can imagine.

The Australian derby rounds in the Super 15 competition are going to hold a very important context regarding the final makeup of the ultimate squad of 23 for the RWC. So many positions will be hotly contested, although unfortunately injury will always raise its ugly head. Currently the only...

It must be something in the water? Probably Rum Vodka!

Profile here: http://www.redsrugby.com.au/NRC/nrcplayerprofile.aspx?pid=287and http://www.redsrugby.com.au/News/NewsArticles/tabid/581/ArticleID/14293/Reds-sign-17-year-old-Campbell-Magnay.aspx

I think the time for chopping and changing is always on the board. Especially when you have players returning from injury such as Ginea, Cooper, and To'omua; but also players like Pocock, Moore, TPN & Higginbotham; not to mention others such as JOC (James O'Connor) and possibly Karmichael Hunt. Are you...

It wouldn't totally surprise me if Cheika experiments this weekend with the starting halves and Inside centre that played the tests at last year's EOYT, to get a sense of comparison i.e. Ginea, Cooper, and To'omua. At the same time, resting the incumbents from the Welsh game for the Irish &...

Are these guys playing for La France now? After all, this is a Wallaby/France match gameo_O thread. At least I thought so.

What is Olly Richardson's experience? Does anyone know?

This game is not about how the Welsh play, but how the Wallabies play. Do the Wallabies bring out their 'A' game like against Bledisloe 3 and against Springbok in S.A. where they only went down in the last 10 mins with the bench, or their 'B' game like Bledisloe 2 or against the Argies over...

Could this be a 'tongue in cheek remark'?:rolleyes:

Again, I beg to differ with this opinion, Brumby Runner, as indeed does Cheika, and BDA. White needs to pick up his passing speed, and his accuracy, to be considered for the bench. also Cheika would appreciate that Ginea's coming back from injury, and can only improve with each outing...

Sure he wasn't one of the tyres?:p