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Higgers was selected to play 8. Don't be surprised if Hill leaves him there. Don't be surprised to see Delve, Higgers and Jones in the same back row at some point either. Jones is way too good not to be starting.

Higgers and/or Dennis.

Too logical.

Without wanting to put the Mockers on him, I reckon Luke Jones is going to have an immense season that will see him playing for the Wallabies against the Lions. Stirzaker should come through and take Phipps' starting spot if he's given more than three-minutes of junk time at the end of every...

Deans out.

Or Sheehan or McKibbon or one of the other two Rebels boys already mentioned.

No he isn't. Stirzaker and Kingi have both shown enough to suggest that if they were given more than five minutes a game at scrumhalf they would be significantly better. The one time Stirzaker did, against the Stormers, we almost pinched the win. Phipps tries hard, but just isn't a very good...

Surely Phipps won't be our starting scrumhalf next year? He's actually getting worse with each game he plays at the moment.

You think Mitchell is a better 12 than JOC (James O'Connor) so I'm not entirely surprised. He's still getting over his hamstring as far as I know, seems to be a re-occurring problem so it's good to see he's not being rushed into pre-season.

I know some outrageously dim people studying Law, don't think it's any indicator of intelligence at all. And by the same token, scholarly intellect doesn't appear to have any real correlation to rugby smarts. I like that he's looking to have a life outside of rugby, so much healthier for these...

Just another quick thought guys, not something you have to pay attention to at all. Would it be worth bringing together some of the rugby discussion sub-forums? Individually they're relatively active, but if thrown together we'd get a much higher front page turnover. Think it would be easier to...

I think the main problem isn't the thread starting to be honest. In a way I worry that restricting content is going to lead to even more provincial circle-jerking, and see the same old lazy tropes repeated again and again and again. I know that thread starting is only one of the changes - which...

He's our Tom Carter?

PR is awesome. It's a rugby forum in name only though, completely different site to this. I think it's a weird decision myself, but then there aren't that many new threads started daily so it won't make much of a difference.

Yeah I know where you're coming from. I guess I'd rather having a bench player being someone who's going to win you a match, someone with X Factor etc. etc. I don't have anything against Mitchell in particular, it's more that I can't see what he does to deserve the praise he gets on here.

He might be consistent, but he's also been consistently average. His defence was really, really bad in his first season. Better last year, but his positioning is still suspect. He gets the utmost out of his talent, which is admirable on many levels (and something a fair few Wallabies could learn...

Play him as an ultra-mobile 8 in the So'oialo mould? Would need a big number 6 who can play tight and provide a viable lineout target though.

I like seeing old players come back like this. Suggests to me that there is a genuinely strong club culture, it's a franchise that players want to be involved in and want to stay involved in. They're using them in sensible capacities as well, not just throwaway jobs for the boys type roles.

Of course he has. He's had plenty of good Tests. No one gets to play 30-odd Tests by never playing well. He had a poor Supe final against the Crusaders last year, which led into a poor 3N tournament and eventually that disastrous WC. Although he did play well against Wales in the third-place...

There's some young/talented guys that should be brought along in light of the Lions tour next year, even if they aren't going to play much on the EOYT. Not sure on the injury status of everyone, but I'd like to see guys like Mafi, Neville, Pyle, Speight, Jones, Auelua, Lucas and similar taken...