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By some distance our best attacking winger. Always dangerous.

I think you could be on the money there. Possible switching of Horne / Mitchell and Douglas / Skelton.

He had me until "This is not 'depth'". Why isn't it? Why is it so hard to grudgingly acknowledge something being right with Australian rugby?

Sure, two distinct teams for those two games, due to the schedule. Then the team for Fiji plays on for the rest of the tournament, barring injuries. The team for Uruguay becomes the pool of reserves.

Sure, I agree with the first part. That's what "Cheikaball" is. Smash it up the middle then go wide when gaps appear. I don't think anyone is suggesting we play helter-skelter rugby. We don't need to. I'm not sure about this 2x 15s part. Do you have a link?

Isn't that the ideal pack for playing a wide game correctly? You have to go forward before going wide, as the Fox commentary team keeps telling us. They're big. but they're mobile with skills. You'd only use a pack like that play a pressure game when you don't have the backs to capitalize on...

That's true, but adapting isn't the same as being bullied, unless you adapt then fail to re-enforce your own strategy. When they're playiong well, the Tahs are very good at hitting it up close to the ruck to create space for their ball-in-hand attack.

Yeah, that's what I meant to say.

I think in the case of the Eagles defence, the reaction should pretty much be on a ruck-by-ruck basis. A rush defence becomes progressively more risky, the fewer players there are in the defensive line. So the attacking team should respond straight away by drawing more forward defenders into the...

Smith's pretty good. I'd like to see how he develops. Hopefully Alo-Emile will come back. It'd be a real downer to see him with a coq on his chest.

I think that if Moore or TPN is injured, then Hanson will be drafted into the squad. We'd only play Sio as reserve hooker if Moore or TPN was injured inside the 48 hour replacement window, and even then, it's unlikely he'd spend much time in the position, if any. He can be reserve hooker while...

I remember the lemon-sucking Kiwi reaction to the very amusing Micheal Hooper, Adam Ashley-Cooper ditty.

That's not what playing ten man rugby means. It means kicking continuously for field position, and playing a forward-oriented pressure game as a primary strategy. What happened against the USA was that their successful rush defence stopped us from getting the ball to the outside backs for the...

England may play 10 man rugby against us, but we're certainly not going to be playing 10 man rugby against them. Unless Michael Cheika has inadvertently swallowed John Connolly in a mad Jabba the Hutt moment. Or has otherwise lost all his marbles.

That's shocking. The reason's THAT NO ONE'S GOOD ENOUGH. WE'RE DOOMED.

Flutter your wings in a display of aggression.

The Poms have been talking up Jonny May as a power runner after his bullocking try against Ireland. He smashed the defence like a very small hammer smashes a very brittle thing.* *It was a good try.

I've been a huge fan of Cliffy over the years but I have to agree. We have better options now. Also re McMahon. Sure he lacks height for the lineout, but what an engine.

Alright, I'll stop satirizing your selections of Brumbies, right.. now.

It's like icons for people to polish. The most religious polish the most.