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Look - I love Stewart & Paisami, but can we start a movement to get Samu home?

What do you mean you hope he gets them all selected. Who else could you want? Are you hoping Brumby Jack gets a gig?

Incumbency will be important, but I think form in the second half of the season will be the biggest thing. The good thing is with the level of competition, no one can afford to drop off.

I’m here mainly to avoid work. With regards to your posts - I just think you have to try a bit harder not to take it all so seriously. At times it’s just like you’re the Byron Keleher of posters. PS maybe Derps has blocked you.

And part of the concern here, for me, is that a lot of the penalties & cards are careless. Tuilima’s clean out on the weekend was only ever likely to end one way, as Reg pointed out, the ball should have already been won. I know it is not just the Reds struggling with the tackle height, but it...

He put a good box kick in too. Both Paisami & Stewart seem to attend lots of breakdowns in support.

The issue with Swinton is he’s barely played and there doesn’t seem a clear return date. Leota will run into a similiar issue if he isn’t back soonish - although he has the benefit of incumbency.

Which is interesting - I remember that too, so Wilson definitely missed one. But on the ESPN stats that I looked at this morning it had him on 0 misses. I’ll forgive him a missed tackle though - given he was otherwise bloody good.

It was really a choice of two though. Him or Sinclair. Yes, he made mistakes but he did a lot of good things too. I must admit I didn’t notice him missing 5 tackles, but I guess that’s the problem with these teams - most of us have watched the game once, maybe twice. You don’t see everything.

Can I just ask - do you mean that the 13 Wallabies role is between Paisami & Perese? I otherwise agree with your post, but it was only one game.

Agree. From my perspective in a lot of these cases it is poor execution on both parts - but only one side gets penalised for it.

I’d have Porecki as my front runner at 2, but I thought Fainga'a turned in some of his best test performances last year, so would have him as my number 16 and wouldn’t be concerned if they were the other way around. Kaitu’u would be my third choice. Lonergan, McInerney & Uelese all have work to...

Firstly - I’ll accept whatever comes. If the situation above was within the rules, then of course I’d accept it. I might not be happy with my teams execution, but if they fuck up a 3 on 1 and the other team doesn’t break the rules, whose fault is that? I’ve had the odd rant about refereeing on...

Me too. And it is noticeable McKellar is the same. I don’t think we are too far away but, in saying that, the margins at this level are very fine and we definitely need to find that extra precision in the line out, in attack and in our discipline.

Kiap - it is an excellent point you make. One of the big criticisms of cards is that they ruin the game. But do they? Teams adapt these days. Sure, it has an impact, but not to the extent it is sometimes made out to. The caveat to that is it is still frustrating the time taken to review...

PS How good was Hunter’s shot on White last night. There’ll be a bit of banter at Walabies camp today.

I guess it depends on the exact surgery. It’ll be good to get Campbell back, but the reality is we have depth there. At 6 we’ve pretty much worked through our depth.

Me neither - and nor do I want to take the Rebels lightly. The last thing we need is to drop a game which we should win. I agree Tauakipulu looks a far bit short of Super Quality (100% to be expected). But I guess if he is bench cover than if might not be too big as an issue.

Yeah, I assume so. I’d like to see them bring him off the bench and give Flook & Daugunu another start. But I’d assume our back three will be likely to end up Vunivalu, Petaia, Campbell (how long is Campbell out for?)

Really good timing of the bye for the Reds. Hopefully a couple of guys get through there injuries. Hopefully Wright not too bad, but it didn’t sound good. Any word on ASY (Angus Scott-Young)? I’d assume Vest would be next cab off rank at 6, or maybe LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) with the other to cover lock from the bench. Who is our next...