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If we get no better try all season, I'd still be satisfied. That was an absolute corker!

Jaguares by a point!

Jaguares a point in front with 10 to go. Cheetahs have been second rate but Jaguares have been very ill-disciplined and I suspect some will end up in front of the citing commissioner. Jaguares too prone to throw the impossible pass rather than go to ground and reset. There have been some...

Stolid or Solid? One's a compliment, the other accurately describes English 10's.

Just one injury required to stuff the chicken. Liam Gill with stress fractures in his back. And they reckon four weeks to recover. What are they smoking?

The month will give Foley an enforced break and as long as he is brought back slowly to regain match fitness then I think we'll see a great season from him. In the meantime Beale will tear it up and Horwitz will grab his opportunity with both hands. Tough times for the selectors in week 5, I...

Just looking at the team lists for those SA rugby teams that have already announced them, I am struggling to recognise more than one or two names. We are in a whole new era!

6:50 must be close to sunset as the sandgropers don't do daylight saving and its eight weeks from the longest day. The key will be whether the atmospheric conditions allow a fast or slow cool to take place. Is the doctor due?

Going into the game without a direct replacement for Gill will change the end result IMO. The Reds have just two chances to upset the Tahs - the set piece and the breakdown. Now their key breakdown man and one of the best opensides in Oz has gone down with stress fractures (you know, those...

Never mind the back three, if the Hurricanes are to win it will be down to the backrow. Ever since Ardie Savea totally towelled the Tahs single-handedly on his debut, he has been the man most likely to replace McCaw for me. He will be the toughest obstacle to get over.

The SMH used to have the inside track, but I don't know if that's still the case. It looks to me that Gibson doesn't know his best team in a couple of positions. If its true I do have some concerns: I think I understand the front row. The Reds scrum is very good and I think Gibson is worried...

I doubt that Horwitz, Horne and Robinson have played more than 10 minutes as a combination and yet that to me is the most likely run-on combination. Doesn't fill me with a whole lot of confidence.

Is Sully being realistic or wildly optimistic? You'd think after two games in NZ, where the Tahs defence resembled Swiss cheese, that realistically Kerevi was a walkover for at least three tries and this would be enough with the Reds set-piece to take the chocolates. Or is he optimistically...

Nice to see the Mexicans reverting to their own language and not English. ;) Given that the Force backrow is their major strength, the Rebels backrow will need to be at their absolute best to get parity.

Based on the highlights I think we should move Beale to 10 and Taf to 12. He's got great pace, a magnificent side-step and everyone knows about his defence. :)

Definitely not the end of the world! He misses the Reds and Highlanders at home and the Brumbies away (and the bye). The Brumbies was a likely loss anyway and Hegarty, Beale and Horwitz will fill in fine. He gets a month off to recharge his batteries after Japan. This will only become an...

You and I must have a different understanding of "decent enough". The problem is that the 16th team in is the Kings, with Jaguares and Sunwolves as 17 and 18. The whole point of the expansion was to get the Kings in, the Jaguares and Sunwolves were added to pacify those outside SA. So, if it...

What happened to Holloway? Any news on a livestream feed?

I think I understand Alex's question. I just got home from a birthday party (I really am going to have to get a smaller group of friends) to find that the Brumbies livestream starts in 56 minutes time. If the game started an hour and a half ago, where is all the banter/analysis/gloating? Why is...

We pedants are screaming! Zebo has re-signed for Munster and Ireland.