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I have missed the first 3 wallaby tests this year as they are hard to watch in the US, but I was pretty impressed with our performance on the weekend. We strangled the french out of the game with very good defence (attacking defence!) whilst also regularly picking up points when given the...

I am sick of this will he /won't he saga with Rocky. I had to put up with it most of last year but I grinned and bared it as there was a chance he would stay in the tahs. No more I say. Rocky, sit down and sign or tell your story walking, but either way get it over and done with. You are not...

I am tipping the canes and bulls to get up. Both will be hard games, but the chiefs injuries this week have been enough for to lean towards the Canes despite not having home ground advantage. I think it will take something special from McCaw for the Saders to get up, but I can see the Bulls...

Re: Matt Williams = assistant to Wallaby coach, Robbie Deans Good one to whoever started it, just dont do it again

Re: Matt Williams = assistant to Wallaby coach, Robbie Deans I votmited when I read this post. surely deans is way too smart to go near matt williams

Have to say I am a bit underwhellemed by the announcement. It doesn't feel like there is anything really new there and many details are still missing. The one big positive is that it seems that all sides have come to the realisation that no one wins from Sanzar disintegrating. I guess the other...

We didn't deserve to make the finals - we have played some poor footy this year. Hopefuly hickey will have learned for next year. I have to say that winning 3 from 3 in SA was the highlight for our season, along with the win V canes in week 1. Actually I thought both the tahs and chiefs would...

I used to think transfer fees would be very simple. E.g. if Giteau was signed in France then they should pay something to the club they signed him from as compensation for losing a very high quality player. However, as you point out - it gets very complicated very quickly. For example, what is...

FP, the thing that struck me about your squad is the number of decent players missing, e.g. assumedly the following tahs would be back in club rugby Phil Waugh, Adam Frier, Caldwell, Burgess, Sheehan, Dan Palmer, Horne, Tahu (all current or potential wallabies). Even QLD will have a few that are...

Very good article and makes me want to move to Frogland. If the IRB is serious about making this a level playing field, then they should introduce transfer fees. This may become a more realistic proposition if the home nations start regulrly losing players to France.

I am tipping the sharks by 4 in what will be a near final quality match (believe it or not). This will leave the tahs with some sort of mathematical chance of reaching the finals if they can beat the lions by 190+points next week. Actually this is the hardest tipping round by far so with four...

Maybe horwill is just lacking fitness and so is struggling to make an impact. Ash - I thought Van was worst on ground but was worred I was being biased given I bagged him last week. Your right, Hynes and McLinden were also ok - the latter has improved alot since his game against the tahs...

Absolutely spot on, very poor attitude by the Reds in defence made it pretty easy for the brumbies. I was pretty disappointed in most of the reds "big" names and thought their best was Genia and then Lucas after Genia was injured. Horwill looks to have lost his mojo.

A mate of mine was fortunate enough to have Robbie Deans along as the guets speaker for a fund raiser for his junior guby club a week ago. Someone asked Deans the question what has been Deans' biggest surprise since his move to Aus. Deans resposne was that Matt Dunning was much fitter and...

All I meant was that MMM has played well in the tight this year and he and horwill look like a good 4-5 combo to me. Add higgen / elson at 8/6 plus you have fat cat Houston who may just one day live up to his potential and then Van is looking like a bench player at best barring injuries...

I am surprised that Van is still in the plans for the future I would have thought he would be being eased out of the team particualrly if Rocky comes on board

Bloody poaching qlders! Oh well, atleast rocky will be back in Aus. I wonder how long he will stay if he is not in the Wallaby 22 - which is a very real possibility given the depth in loose forwards at the moment.

Two dads has been ruled out with back spams so carraro has come onto the bench in this place. I have tipped the tahs for this weekend (more with my heart than head) as I suspect they will win this to get my hopes up, only to lose to the lions to miss out.

I am coming up to watch this game. Will probably support the brumbietahs given they are still a mathematical chance to make the finals but will be happy to see some good play by either team.

Re: 2009 Shute Shield The win is the sports story of the week down here in the shire (getting double the coverage of the NRL sharks and dragons put together). The local rag is even claiming that Souths have 10 first graders out with injury and S14 representation so the sky is the limit when...