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I agree Seb V, Imagine if Deans announced a forward pack of: 1. Robinson 2. Pocock 3. Alexander 4. Palu 5. Elsom 6. Chisholm 7. Moore 8. Horwill Its a little bit bullshit .

Did you hear the Scot commentator on the weekend? he said something like "you can't drop the ball if you have a moustache like that"

Surely Cooper has to start at 10, with the 10 jersey on, with Giteau playing outside him, with the 12 jersey on.

Did you not see Matt Goddard in the S14 - "I won't let you slow down my ball"

Giteau's time at 10 reminds me of the illfated Horan at 10 experiment. Hopefully it leads to he same outcome.

Interesting game. I think the All Blacks have been alot more vunerable than usual this year (which is one of the reasons I am so annoyed the Wobbs have been so shite against them) and this game will be a good measure of how they are really travelling. You never know with the frogs but gee its...

Exquisite timing from Knuckles. when would there be a better time to launch this than after one of the the Wobbs worst ever defeats? This is following on from JON's leaking of the player trial match pay demand after the Wellington debacle. What will come out next time we have a bad defeat?

I really think we are going to end up with some sort of coaching consortium next year. Graham & Williams will go and JON will start with the short list candidates from last time to see who wants to be an assistant coach, with the promise of having the inside running for the wallaby job once...

It seems like we are having continual problems with positions 10, 12, 13 and 15. (I will leave the wings out as we need to fix the problems further in first). I am far from qualified to be an expert on backline play, but is there any merit in trying Giteau at fullback? He has the kicking...

A pretty good, but damning, summary of where we are at.

3. Palu 2. Smith 1. Elsom

Re: How good is our scrum? It seems like periods of Aus scrum competiveness always coincides with the appointment of a coach with specialist srummaging abilities (e.g Foley, Noriega and the Qld bloke whose name escapes me etc)? Why don't don't we always have one? Why don't we have a specialist...

Thats the point I am struggling with - I have no idea whether Dickenson was right or not on the weekend and frankly I don't care. What I care about is why Paddy, having considered Dickenson's performance to be sufficiently below par, decided to give both a public rebuke and an apology to All...

Re: How good is our scrum? I believe Patricio Noreiga is the walaby scrum coach, or atleast Jim Williams hired him to fix things up. We have gone from having one of the worst scrums (of top tier nations) to being very respectible. We need to improve further if we want to be the best - but is...

Lee, you may want to check Fitpatricks DOB

I think you have to keep the same backline for the Scots if thats the planned backline for the Welsh. Would be great to see Mumm have a go otherwise no other changes to the starting team, but hopefully Deans uses the reserves heavily.

This is un-fricking-believable. Bad move by Paddy. If he is going to start this sort of thing he needs to do it with non-NZ teams to start with to avoid perceptions of favouratism.

closet - good pickup eagle eye biff

I reckon a suspended 1 week sentence would be a fair outcome. It was silly but I don't buy the argument that HAbana is a closest dirty player.

I can't see a yellow card offense here, espcially not for what Kaplan awarded it for - not using the arms. That was just plain wrong and is a damming reflection on Kaplan's abilities. The reality is it was just a good hit and rugby shouldnt be discouraging them.