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Yeah - I’ve never liked the intentional knock down rule. I believe the refs got the ruling right, but would rather it was just a penalty.

Round 7 1. Bell 2. Porecki 3. Tupou 4. Smith 5. Blythe 6. Valetini 7. McReight 8. Wilson 9. McDermott 10. O’Connor 11. Daugunu 12. Stewart 13. Paisami 14. Pietsch 15. Petaia I did mean to add - if I picked the team from the best players I saw in Super Rugby this weekend Ivania Wong would be on...

The thing with Slipper is that we wasn’t in a strong position to pilfer. Yes he was trying to get his hand on the balll but, because of the other bodies, he didn’t have an easy play. Someone just needed to grab his arm.’

Nic is still trying to find his ribs. That was some shot from Paisami. I notice he they showed him talking to Henry before the play. I assume he was saying something along the lines of’ get ready to sweep behind, because I am flying up to skewer someone’

Yeah - Frost & Swain are both outstanding young players, but I though Smith & Blyth were superb tonight. Having said that, looking forward to seeing Frost in a Wallabies jersey.

Please. Come to Rockhampton.

Has Angus Blyth played a better game for the Reds?

Frost is exceptional

Thorn has done similar before himself. Guys like McReight & McDermott have been ‘rotated’ out before with a list of things to work, as has Daugunu himself and there has been plenty of rotation in spots like prop, locks & centres. This is by far the most settled year of selection - which, no...

On the flip side, the Reds Front Row have a comparatively low work rate compared to their Brumbies counterparts. Tupou obviously offsets that with the quality of his involvements and his scrum work, but I would love to see us get more out of the front row. In the last Reds v Brumbies game the...

On a seperate note - I really like some of the attacking structures the Tahs use. They still have a way to go, but they are chalk & cheese from the team they were 12 months ago.

Continuing to lose some of these guys is inevitable - especially as some of their international ambitions get quashed. You simply can’t fit all of them into starting teams at super level, let along test level. Hopefully some will choose to move to other Super rugby teams, but some will choose...

I’ll acknowledge up front there is a lot of me reading between the lines in this post and I may be well off base, but some of the comments I read with regards to the non-selection of Daugunu made me wonder if Thorn has deliberately held him back to get him to a higher level of performance...

Whilst we are congratulating the Reds on wonderful things they’ve undertaken, how good is it to see that they are recognising the women who been capped for Queensland. Congratulations to Vanessa Bradley who has led the effort there. Vanessa, along with women like Shirley Russell, Selena Worsley...

Interesting comments by Thorn around the Brumbies scrum. Definitely taking the opportunity to try and create the right perception with the refs https://www.theroar.com.au/2022/04/01/rugby-news-jones-replacement-emerges-disrupted-drua-a-danger-game-for-tahs/

There is a wonderful video on the Reds FB page of presenting Daugunu with his 50th jersey with the Reds flying his mum over - who Filipo hadn’t seen since 2019. Unfortunately I seem unable to share, but really great stuff from the Reds. Well worth a look.

No, you’re wrong Froggy. You might want to read the relevant posts again. No one compared Petaia to Campo at all, until Lightblue did above. The post that Lightblue has quoted compared Paisami to Campese - but it was bagging Campo. Which I responded to above. Lightblue’s post definitely...

Why don’t we just let him play? What he’s already achieved in terms of playing professional rugby and making his test debut is better than 95% of his peers. Whatever people on here think Thorn, Rennie & Cheika all rate him extremely highly. The kid is going well above the average. Campo...

Without really thinking through the implications I agree with you Steve. But with the specific case of FLW (Fergus Lee-Warner) he is simply too far down the order to be considered a priority signing. Doesn’t mean you guys can’t be extremely disappointed he isn’t being retained but it’s reality. Personally I’d love...

Harsh on Campo. One of the best players I’ve had the pleasure of watching and one of our most successful. Just happened to play at a time when the defensive expectations in wingers was vastly different and, of course, made a critical and ultimately decisive error in a Lions game. Still would’ve...