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Our recruting is nowhere near done. Only positions that look "full" are prop, hooker, and wing. If this season's squad is any indication, we should expect another seventeen players involved with the Brumbies next season.

Personally love the perspective of what other sports are doing, and how you relate it back to union.

If we're picking up Folau Fainga'a as well, then I'm really happy with our options at Hooker. Unless a player is generally incompetent, or we're signing a direct upgrade, I'm always happy to see us retaining players.

I think it's fair to say that the top three locks in Aus this year have been (in this order) Coleman, Arnold, and Carter, and they should be the Wallabies locks accordingly. Not far behind are guys like Matt Philip and Izack Rodda. And we know Kane Douglas and Rob Simmons can reach that level...

Was at Royals-Norths, gotta say that both teams put in a good showing and it was much closer than the score reflects. Three intercept tries for Royals (looks like they intentionally play for those), and two off a lucky bounce. Biggest difference between the sides was defensive ability, with...

No shock that Alcock and Ah Wong are also off according to this article. Shame on both fronts, but I guess we can't promise game time ahead of Pocock and Kuridrani respectively. Also says Toua is going. That's a real surprise to me; it seemed that whenever he was fit, we found somewhere in the...

From the blog back in the day. Jaime Miller was right about all four of those problems, to be fair, but the amazing thing is Cheika managed to either fix (game plan and decision making) or mitigate (set piece and playmakers) those problems in less than half a season. That kind of turnaround...

Smith really showed the value of experience in that backline; I was gutted when we lost him a couple of years ago and love that we brought him back. If the backroom staff think he'll last, I'd be thrilled to extend him through to 2019.

So that's the season. First up, gotta say how proud of the team I am. A good many season predictions said that we'd be finishing 3rd in the conference at best, with a lot saying 4th; Brett McKay, Aaron Goile, Robert van Royen, Tristan Renaud. But with three rounds to go, we'd won the conference...

Definitely the story of impotent offence (least clean breaks, least metres, 2nd least defenders beaten, least offloads, 3rd least points scored) and solid defence (2nd best tackle rate, 3rd least points conceded, 4th least tries conceded, least clean breaks conceded) from the Brumbies, while the...

Canberra Times need to make use of the "Brumbies sign Folau" headline while they can!

Underestimate the Carter-Arnold-Butler trio at your peril!

Real shame about Smiler and Staniforth. But I'd be excited to see a Butler-Alcock-Pocock backrow next season! And we have good prospects in Lolo and Hyne, hopefully Cusack and Valetine as well.

Then I expect Mumm at 6 and Phipps at 9.

If you're going by having two possible teams with a few depth players (as Cheika seems to like doing), and with the eyes set square on developing for 2019, I'd be hoping for: Props: Toby Smith, Nic Mayhew, Tom Robertson, Allan Ala'alatoa, Sekope Kepu Hookers: Talu Latu, Tatafu Polota-Nau, James...

Hey, that's like a day in ARU time.

Scott Sio is only 25, and Slipper 27, they should be able to manage the next two world cups easily.

Agreed, so:

And if there aren't any Aussie teams in the top eight based on points, of course they shouldn't have a finals spot. Same for that nonsense in 2015 when the Sharks "finished 3rd" even though they should have been 7th.

I don't want conferences, and I don't want more derbies. Playing the Reds and the Rebels a second time this season means far less to me than an opportunity to play the Stormers, Cheetahs, Bulls, or, hell, even the Sunwolves. I want to see the Hurricanes play the Lions and the Sharks, not have...