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AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) played most of the 2nd half at 15 and JOC (James O'Connor) played most of the 2nd half at 12 in Tokyo. I would like to see Mumm start, not because I am sure he will do better than Horwill because our 2nd rowers need a shake up. Move Giteau to 12 or bring Cooper in at 12 and let them swap during the game...

3 Pocock 2 Ioane 1 Alexander (for his scrums, but has raised expectations now)

I don't think we are giving the all blacks enough credit - thought they were the best I had seen them play all year. The Carter-Nonu-Smith combo was very dangerous and the pigs hunted in a pack as usual. They made very few mistakes, other than their deliberate ones. Some ref is going to come...

AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) to 12 is a bad decision in my view. Everyone looses, from Giteau inside him to all the men outside him. I would prefer Cooper at 10 and Gits as 12 with AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) back 15. We can stroke Git's ego by making him VC.

All the GS tests are all on free to air with replays at prime time on One HD, check out: http://www.rugby.com.au/qantas_wallabies/broadcast_details/2009_broadcast_details,130423.html

I suspect it is to give Smith a bit of a rest and I think he will be back for the 1st grand slam game unless Pocock has a blinder

Please lets not all start this rubbish again. No one wins, we all lose.

I am not sure Horwill is an automatic selection if Chisholm and Sharpe are also fit. Its pretty close between all 3 at the moment with no single stand out. Hopefully this changes on the EOYT and in 2010 as I could see Horwill or (dare I say it) Sharpe as el-captaino. In the meantime, I would...

I absolutely agree Scotty, thats why I posted the above

I don't think Giteau has been given enough credit for his performance in the 2nd half V the boks at Perth. Yes it was after the horse had bolted and the boks had probably clocked off, but I thought Giteau lead our fight back there, took control of our play and was generally an authoritive figure...

2008, the win (in durban I think) gave us the MAndela cup (which we handed back tothe boks in Perth this year).

I can understand why Morty would be upset if no one had of sat him down and explained the choice of Rocky as captain. Poor form from Deans (and the other coaches) if this is true - lets face it its not bloody hard to have a 10 min phone call. However, its very hard not to suspect that there is...

Who said Pocock never fails? Lets get him! Of course two tests starts is more than enough to draw conclusions about Pocock. Smith is still the no. 1 7 - but he won't be indefinitely and possibly not by 2011 - and his work load will probaably start needing to be managed to make sure we are...

There was a gale force wind in Sydney yesterday - throwing straight in those conditions may not have been seen as a good thing.

Obviously Elsom as Captain is no shock, but I wonder if this means that Smith might not start some games?

I think the give away that this article is BS is the fact that Carter is a yes

I really hope this is a case of poor journalism as we don't want anyone playing for the Wallabies if they are willing to take their bat and ball and go home if they don't egt their way.

The mistake I was referring to is the poor performance on the field this year. I realise now you can interpret my statement another way, the players being asked to pick up the tab for the ARU's cancelling of the Aus A program. I guess it comes down to whether this is truly a trial or whether...

I think the analogy is more like your boss asking you to work overtime to help fix up a mistake you made. Hard to justify extra pay in those conditions. Nevertheless ONeil's timing on this is beautiful.