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Not recently unfortunately. Billy Slater has probably been one of the best player for the Kwis on a couple of occasions...

The Blues = The Blues . . . . . damn. Can I still be in the special group?? ;)

My point - as I said in my post - is that there is no double standard. Quade makes A LOT of mistakes and as there are a huge amount of people saying he should be the Wallaby 10, they get highlighted. The standard is Test Standard QC (Quade Cooper)'s so charge-downs and intercepts get talked about more because...

Nah......plenty of charge-downs don't happen. How many times do you think To'omua, JOC (James O'Connor) or Foley have been charged-down or intercepted this year? What about Dan Carter and Morne Steyn? It's not about a double standard but just the one standard - Tests level standard - and the sheer number of...

Gotta say that I don't buy this. The best player in each position is usually the best player no matter what the game plan is. It's not like gridiron where players skill-sets are so vastly different on each team and each position. On rare occasions you mite find that you pick one guy over...

I probably would take Drew Mitchell pre-2011 injury before all of these guys except maybe Folau. Problem is it's now 2013 I guess......

Couldn't agree more. I have heard so many times people saying things like "I wouldn't start his first Test in a Bledisloe match in NZ" or "Wouldn't have his first Tests against the Lions" etc etc. If a player is good enough, he's good enough. I'm sure if you went to the players...

To my mind, Graham Henry's ability to pull in other international coaches on his team for 8 years was the big thing that set him apart - especially after 2007 when Deans' was in the AB frame. From the media stories and interviews done while GH was coach, it seemed like those 3 were able to...

I thought you were trying to convince us of how bad the All Blacks were?

Isn't that point boyo was making??

If you're happy with a 33% win record then I am too. To win all the time gets a little monotonous ;)

Agree that this is a problem here in Aussie. Some players seem to think that Australian rugby will fall over if they aren't playing. I still think the ARU got it wrong over QC (Quade Cooper) last year and should have let him have a look around and see who was keen to pick him up. The Rebels have gone the...

How'd that work out for your last coach?

LOL.....now imagine if we had 2 Highlander teams for the last 3 seasons! This is not supposed to be ablut the supposed weakness or strength of each conference (in saying that, I think the SA conference is the 'hardest') but just saying that in recent years, the Aussie provincial teams have...

This year you have 2 teams in the bottom 4, last year the Aussie conference had 3 teams in the bottom 5 and only one team in the finals which, based soley on points was the 6th placed team. In 2011, although the Reds won, there were 3 Aussie teams in the bottom 4. It seems to be slowly...

I would suggest that they do actually.

LOL....I just saw the other thread re: players.....forget I spoke....

So which players should be gooooone?

Actually, from what I read in the Laws, if the judical officer or panel find mitigating circumstances, they can actually reduce the ban to lower than the entry point. It's bloody hard reading some of those Laws though. I've decided that I hate the word 'notwithstanding'! The IRB actually...

Do you have a link to Reg 18? The one I'm reading doesn't have it.