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We played some mindless rugby in that 2nd half. Drummond's kicking atrocious. Kick to the Canes back 3 like that and you will get punished. Tom Taylor was good I thought. Carter seemed to be running a little more freely. Nadolo's quietest game this season. Canes played really well. Their...

I actually thought the Brumbies more than held their own and then some at scrum time. The fact they put their winger on the blindside flank of the scrum and still got good clean ball was telling as well. Brumbies probably should've won it, but Lilo's kicking let his team down once again. His...

If I were Wallabies coach Fardy would be one of the first names on the team sheet. The guy has a bit of edginess to him. He is effective at the ruck. Last 4Ns he put in some big plays that blew opposition players off the ball and/or won TO ball. Whilst he may not get called at LO time, I seem...

Waste of a bench option? Eh? A back up hard working 7 has been a pretty effective option off the bench, Holah, Waugh, Cane,

Pocock was superb last night. Very early in the game he made an excellent run down the left wing, beating a couple and putting the Landers defence at 6s and 7s. That set the tone right away that he was going to have a big one. His attack and defence was top drawer. There was a run he made in...

Mortlock is known as the Evil Wizard amongst NZ rugby fan circles :)

Those 3 Landers forwards who got benched at the 35th minute mark didn't look happy. Can't blame Jamie, they were getting carved up in the middle. 10-13 for Landers are defending poorly. Brumbies doing the simple things well. Ref doing a very good job.

Don't think Hika will go. Moody might be a smokey. Need 3 halfbacks for a WC squad unless Carter or Slade are our cover. Lowe ahead of Piutau, don't think so. I think Crotty is still a chance and SBW will be a wing cover option. Vito could pip Luatua

The best example I'd say was Leon MacDonald. He came back from Japan IMO faster and a much improved kicker. I also think the experience of being away from NZ helped him as a person. He soon became a permanent fixture under Henry and at times was the starting fullback with Mils doing stints on...

That box kick with minutes remaining that put his team under pressure was poor. Whilst it was a scrappy sort of game, it wasn't a bad watch given the closeness in score. I thought when C. Finger got that breakdown turnover, that gave the Rebs a real lift.

That Brumbies halfback that finished the game had a poor kicking game.

Booing??? Keep it classy Canberra

Geez it's amateur hour in the Tahs admin that something like this has been allowed to occur.

And we lost Bleyandaal not that long ago. We could always move Dagg to 10, I have been saying this for about 6 years :)

That's it. The VC selection will be just as critical. I can't see it being Hooper with Pocock being fit, unless there is a plan to play both opensides at the close of test matches. The last few AB captains have been 80 minute players - McCaw, Umaga, Thorne

Didn't all the OZ teams that lost to Saffa teams have lopsided possession stats?

Yeah it didn't look good for To'omua. Looked a nasty incident. Shame really, he is the glue man for that Ponies backline in both attack and defence. White was far too ponderous. Did a couple of good things, but man he stifled the attack. I thought the tight forwards for the Brumbies weren't...

If Slipper and Higgers are in the mix then Genia could be if he has a huge second half of the Super season and regains that form the world knows he's capable. A lot of 'ifs' in there, but he does have maturity now.

I don't think it's a cover for the Blues loss. The Blues are crap, so them losing was hardly a surprise. Just because other match officials were present, going to the refs room is basically raising it 'behind closed doors'. He rightly used the post game interview to air his point, that...

It was bewildering no doubt, but if Chieka took a step back, he could have raised it with Hooper in the half time break and got his captain to discuss it with Peyper before the 2nd half restart whistle. I think it's all fairly innocuous, but it was totally unnecessary and really should not...