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I wonder if TT anticipates a Force kicking game since the Rebels are trotting out a pretty sharp backrow. JD at 15 will utilise his kicking game well. But then again he is prone to poor play and the wingers aren't renown kickers. Be interesting to see how each team plays.

That descrption of Mike Harris sounds an awful lot like Julian Huxley.

Uncontested or not, surely you'd still have to pack three people in the front row of the scrum and surely that would either have to be a back or a backrower. Better to guarantee yourself possession and play to the one man advantage than to risk possession for a driving maul that had not been...

We should have taken the scrum with that last penalty. They either lose a back or a backrower- either way it benefits us.

Come on Reds! Come home at a gallop!

But someone needs to tell Frisby to stop stupid box kicks...

What a try! How good was that lineout play. I was about to say the Reds were having a bit of an average game (not making the most of set piece dominance), but that was something else.

I think we really, really need to win the NRC. We used it to develop players and I have been fine with that in the past- arguably we might not have seen guys like Harry Scoble, Ross HP, Jermaine Ainsley, etc get a run at Super Rugby level without getting some game time at NRC level. But now it...

Adam Coleman signed a one year deal didn't he. There have been mutterings in Force circles that the Brumbies are a bunch of %&#@! ☺

Compromise. Take one back and keep one in the U20s.

Do you mean with injuries? You'd have thought more travel = less recovery time = more injury or something like that. I can't say I've noticed a significant difference. I wonder if the players find the prospect of the expansion exciting and it becomes a carrot to either stay or return from...

What he said. While you are at it, we'll have Jooste back too.

That would then be the first time we've beaten NZ at U20 level, wouldn't it? Came super close in 2013 though.

Not select any VIC boys? :)

Surely Nic White would go back to the Brumbies. I don't really know if anyone else really needs him. The Brumbies don't exactly need him but Cubelli wouldn't be a long term option I wouldn't have thought.

And a lazy $500,000 to afford them. :)

Expect the Waratahs to defend against the Force's attack and turn the game into a boring slugfest. Come on Tahs just slip off a few tackles and allow a few linebreaks so we can have a free flowing game. Kurtley can lead the way!

Lineouts will be interesting. The Force have 3 good jumpers without considering Cottrell- yet those are the same three that saw one of our worst ever lineout performances against the Crusaders. The Tahs have Dennis and Holloway as the main jumpers. I don't think the Force will have the same...

I think so. I saw him give a lot of high fives to his team mates on the bench. Could be an RSI.

I am a big Ready fan. He is in the top three hookers and the only thing counting against him is test experience. He reminds me of a young Stephen Moore with slightly less explosiveness but a better all-round game. It will be interesting to see when Moore arrives at the Reds- who starts? The...