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OK I stand corrected - however I assume that the rationale was to get a bit of height in the lineout and not muck around with Valetini and Samu in their regular positions. Did he switch with Samu on defensive scrums? I'll still maintain you wouldn't do it at test level, the opposition would...

When did he play at open side? I'm assuming it was an injury ravaged circumstance. Playing him there for the Wallabies will end about as well as playing Ben McCalman there in '11.

Yeah PSdT is not an open side, he wears number 7 because they do it the other way around there. He is an out and out blind side. I will go out on a limb and say that Tom Hooper is zero chance to be selected as an open side flanker. If they are to go back to the 80's you'll have a big mobile...

Yeah Im a bit miffed by the Richie hype TBH. I know he's Rory's identical twin, but he's not his clone and I doubt he will be handed an international debut at altitude. That would be a massive stitch up. Maybe off the bench at Parra would work better if Eddie wants a look.

In a RWC year is it a better alternative than Foketi?

I wouldn't see an issue with it in the broad scheme of things but with 4 games until the RWC starts it begs the question as to what you'd do with Kerevi and/or Ikitau. I'm not seeing either of those blokes being left out, or even moved. Next year maybe, barring an injury of course.

I feel like Marky Mark (Nawaqanitawase) could be our modern day Campo, only with aerial skills as well. Been saying that for a while. And that Will Harris will be our modern day Tim Gavin, in that he will peak in his late 20s / early 30s. Wilson could be like that as well.

I don't disagree with this with regards to High and Grammar but in fairness to TAS their Rugby program is fine, their issue is they just don't have the numbers (not players, students generally) anymore. If they want a level playing field they should realistically be playing in ISA with...

Not the right mankinis for you?

Ata from a ruck a few metres out, no one in front of him under the sticks

Well at least I got that game right. I noticed Fittler wasn’t playing, is he in 2s?

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Michael Hooper will be in any 33 man Wallabies squad this year. Nothing surer.

Yeah I was taking the piss a bit. A lot even. I think a draft is very risky, there would be a net outflow to other codes and/or countries. The draft works in AFL, NBA and NFL because the players don’t have anywhere else to go, they just have to accept their value.

I’ve only seen footage of it being held up but Paul Cully wrote a meltdown piece claiming the rules need to be changed so that commonsense dictates that momentum would have been enough that he surely grounded it.

Yep

Whenever I see a piece like that I just refer back to the Henry Speight call in 2018 firstly, and then to the first ever time wasting call of last year.

The kiwis would just manipulate it to make all 12 teams essentially all blacks feeder teams.

I don't think there's much doubt that the Brumbies should have and will have more representatives in the Wallabies squad than each of the other 4 franchises. I also don't think there's much doubt that Luke Reimer wont be one of them. Sure, he put in a good shift last night, but so did Ned...

I had people over and had the game on in the background - I thought Id watch the replay if it looked like a good game. From what I saw it looked like the Tahs were outplayed as expected, and when I saw a flying headbutt on Hooper that wasn't even looked at that killed any interest in watching...