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Well it's an upgrade on Dunedin at least.

And not quite the same type of utility but TPN was known to run out at #8 on occassion for Two Blues.

Do we know that size had anything to do with LL's exclusion? Maybe Eddie doesn't rate him in other areas as highly as you do as well. On a similar note, I was thinking last night that it's a bit of a turnaround for the Brumbies from having all 3 hookers plus the development one in the...

Switch 4 and 19, and Nawaqanitawase for Vunivalu and you have probably nailed it. It’s Eddie though.

Can someone start a ‘who are eddie’s leaguies’ thread or something. It’s a topic I am interested in but it’s not particularly relevant to this one.

Definitely played for Colleagues, could well have been the Rats prior.

No time like the present. Will Eddie be conservative for his first team selection or run out a couple of left fielders?

Before my time but I’m pretty sure Jim Lenehan was a 4 year 1st XV player as well

Tahs rank well in that regard too, Nadolo was a stuff up but at least he’s actually from Australia, the prop was just legit injury cover. Surprised at the number of ineligibles in the Brumbies squad, I thought NSW & Qld homebreds were their main hunting ground.

Despite the fact they are all Shore boys, I do actually think this current lot are onto all that. Trying to align the dominos so they all fall in the right order would be a monumental task.

I stumbled on this on Twitter and was able to read it as one of my 5 freebies. It’s a good read, remember the hack of hitting ‘escape’ before the paywall warning loads ;)...

I actually thought it should have been called the Sekope Kepu law, at the time it seemed designed to keep him in the selection frame post 2015 RWC more than it did about being able to select Matt Giteau and Drew Mitchell. Obviously it was a bit about all 3, but I think from memory they could...

considering Arnold is uncapped I think the past criteria is meaningless, sounds like it is just capped at 5 players. They could probably throw in representation for Aus franchises for x number of Super games, and just add a couple of games onto the bloke who has the least if they want to add...

For a trip to South Africa, yes. It's only a squad for the first 2 games and if there is an injury Neville will no doubt get the call up. I'd say Neville is in a similar basket to Foley in that he's a known quantity who isn't first choice and Eddie wants to have a look at someone else who...

Like it or not Hodge is a back up 12. We can make that inference based on him not being named as a utility. However I would also suspect that 12. Ikitau 13. Perese is also on the Plan B list.

Ask me after the Argentina game. Richie Arnold is at this point in time an uncapped 32 year old. It’s also possible there won’t be any need to drop anyone, attrition may well come into play. The point I was making was that it makes sense to leave Foley out at this stage.

Foley is a known quantity and I suspect will still get a journeyman berth to France. It looks like Eddie wants to see more of both Gordon and Donaldson to work out which one to take.

Yep a bloke who didn't watch the game and another bloke who concurs with an internet piece by renowned selector James Horwill. Anyways, I am going to rule 10 myself on this issue now. If Eddie picks Tom Hooper there I hope he kills it. Particularly being a Central West NSW product.

Like I said I didn't watch the game and it was a bit of a dig at the stats.. The individual stats on Union Live are obviously wrong but now that I see the team stats there I concur with the tally of 14 lineout wins. I'm still not seeing Hooper picked as an openside at test level, it may work...

I didn't see the game but it doesn't appear that anyone was. From the stats I can find Neville got a steal and that was the only Brumbies lineout win of the night. Off topic I know but I was curious to see that if Hooper wasn't used in the lineout then who was.