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Carter has had at most four good games this year, but more fairly two, and I wouldn't be giving him more caps ahead of guys like Coleman, Neville, and Timani. So looking good in the Royals camp!

Fox and Fairfax are making a narrative of the Brumbies being more pragmatic with penalties lately; 4 shots from 14 penalties against the Bulls, 15 from 95 in all other games. To be fair, that's almost double the attempts per penalty. Turns out we had zero attempts against the Tahs and Saders, so...

Christ, four kiwi teams in the run in makes it tough for them. So our only opponents in common are the Blues and the Sunwolves? And while our other games are Rebels, Reds, Force, theirs are Chiefs, Crusaders, Hurricanes, and Bulls. We have the upper hand; while we both have Blues away, we have...

Losing To'omua for so long is pretty devastating. When Tomane and Speight are back, they slot back in easily. When they're back, I'd be going for a backline of Cubes-Lilo-Tomane-Dagarville-Kui-Speight-Toua (going to stick by my comments on his good defending). Powell-Coleman-Ah Wong bench. I...

That's an interesting suggestion, and one I really like now that I think about it (he does have a touch of the good version of McCabe about him). Also easier (in theory) to find a new winger than it is to find a new fullback. If we were to grab a new one, that's more tough; I can't think of...

Really great to see Powell get fifteen minutes last night, proof that the JID can still push out players worthy of a Brumbies jersey. Also thrilled to see Staniforth having such an impact when he comes on, he really thrives in the chaos and looks to make it at every breakdown, and seems to have...

Heard a lot of people being negative about having Toua at fullback after last night; while the kicking was shocking on the night, I think he's been a marked improvement on Mogg. If nothing else, I feel a lot safer on defence. What's the general feel on how he's been around here? Also...

To play 12, right? Nobody's shifting Kuridrani as he is.

If White is coming back to Aus next year, he either has to be happy with the bench, or the Force. Powell is clearly the future; strong, quick, agile, and obviously confident in his abilities, and his rugby senses are great (Toua's try of the year last year doesn't happen if he didn't rush back...

TAB will happily take your money, mate! Not that the first two calls aren't on the cards.

Also, my predictions for this week; Easts-Whites: Queanbeyan had a great win last week, and, while that may have been inspired by the centurion in the forward pack, they're not up against a side of Viking's quality this week. Easts have revealed why they won't be finalists; they lack depth...

He's the real talent of that Royals backline (former coach's daughter joked that they were looking at marrying her to Pedro to get him to stay!), they must be doing it to fit others, right? Hope to see him starting at 9 this week. Not outsourcing, but maybe bringing back a former captain! We...

Stories abound of his influence with UC getting us the sponsorship in 2012, and he was with Lifeline from 2010-2012. Though this whole saga has probably prevented any CEO doing anything for a few hundred years.

No wonder Larkham had them overseas early; admin were paying more attention to this than the game.

Ended up at Royals-Uni. Pretty expansive first half, with three well worked tries, going into the sheds at 14-5. Second half was reminiscent of the 2014 Reds-Brumbies game where the Brumbies won with only 22% possession; Royals were yellow carded twice, the second just as the first player came...

I've ended up at Owls-Vikings, 2nds has been a real spectacle. Got some back rowers chipping and chasing the length of the field, some nice wide play going on from both sides. Hope the 1st can replicate this entertainment!

Whites-Eagles will be another close one, hopefully, and Gungahlin will be trying to take the double for the season on the back of their form. Queanbeyan are a strong side, but a narrow loss to the Eagles two weeks ago and a close-run-thing against the Owls last week have raised some questions as...

It's working for them, hopefully they keep it up! Heard similar things from the Vikings game, and goal kicking was the only margin there.

I know it's a little thing, but the win against the Waratahs is the first time this season that the Brumbies have been behind at some point and not lost. Stormers and Chiefs had raised some issues of mentality, nice to have a check in the other column.

Went out to Eagles-Easts, it was closer than the scoreline suggests but Eagles are definitely deserving winners. Both sides liked to run it out of their 22, and there were quite a few short kicks, every Eagles kickoff was short (and it paid off about half the time), and even Robbie Abel put in a...