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Best sookface.

And that's before we get to best prop (Sio), best hooker (Moore), best lock (Carter), best six (Fardy), and best seven (Pocock). Then there's best 10 (Lilo), best 12 (To'omua), best 13 (Kuridrani), both best wings (Tomane and Speight). Damn fine team you have there Brumbieman. The funny...

It seems quite risky to leave our best 8 out of the entire squad for reasons of balance, when 8 is possibly our weakest position. Especially after he's been deliberately rested.

We could shine red lasers at the chests of blokes we want him to hit.

Indeed If he can increase the real hardness in place of the petty niggle he'll be formidable.

It's not even reverse psychology BDA. Skelton's an Australian tight five forward. He's mediocre by definition.

I think the correct response to the last sentence (I'm going out on a limb here - it was a doozy) is that JOC (James O'Connor) has to perform.

Every team has space for a marquee player, to increase their performance and also add value to the squad. Guildford wouldn't be there as a replacment for Kellaway, any more than Dan Braid was a replacement for Liam Gill. If anything, Braid improved Gill's performance.

Guildford's an excellent player but a far more lodly ticking behavioral bomb than any of the Australian players we like to melodramatically traduce. When Zack turns up at Burger King at 2am, it's naked and with a sheep under his arm.

Yay that.

Yeah, nah. We have to be honest about his strengths and weaknesses. He's a dynamic attacking player but weak on defensive positioning. If he was as good as you say then he'd be a regular first-picked Wallaby. Good tackler however. I'd pick him regardless. I'd be happy with any combination of...

Good call for the bench though.

Not even Lima.

With Tomane's continued improvement he shows almost as much as Speight in attack anyway. The boy has some extra gas this year.

Thankfully winning and the rankings both benefit by us, um, winning!

Men, it seems like the sudden emergence of depth has created an unexpected problem. We can't pick anyone, because none are standouts.

Sun Tzu: attack their weaknesses. What weaknesses? Well, they almost lost on Saturday. I'm sure the Wallabies brainstrust will be busy deconstructing that. Ironically, one weakness is the scrum. The Boks had it all over them before going for uncontested scrums. We should unrelentingly attack...

They're choking on it.

No, but a fend is (often) a push to the head. Sometimes it's a push to the face. If rugby was trying to get head-involved incidents out of the game then they'd be banning the fend. But they're not. It's strikes they're concerned about. Pushes to any part of the body are completely legal.