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If this is to have any validity then we need to extend the same criteria to other players. That probably means that the following players should not be considered for the RWC: Moore TPN Genia Cooper Pocock Betham Speight Horwill and lots of others I could reel off. Professional rugby is played...

The Rams are really coming together as a team. They have been really impressive over the last two weeks with PLENTY of improvement still in them. Only caught the second half but from what I saw: Mafi, Hollaway and Roach have gone really well, the scrum again has been dominant and the backs have...

I'd just like to be sure that our scrum will be 8 on 8! This week no forward should even look up till the halfback yells "balls out".

Did I miss one completely?

Just got a teaser email from Tahs HQ about the draw next year. No preliminary schedule yet, that's due out next week. But it looks like home games will be the Crusaders, Blues, Stormers and Sharks. Having these four at home will be an advantage as the Crusaders, Sharks and Stormers are the best...

He will be living with his brother from what I saw, who is in QLD. So a potential star prop goes to the franchise synonymous with bad scrummaging. Not clever.

Unless there is massive improvement, Link should have decided after 30 mins which of two is coming off for Horwill and do it before half time.

Rams have changed their 12/13 combo - McDougall moves in one and Foketi comes to 13. This was their biggest problem in Adelaide, though I hope Swanepoel got a rocket at training this week. I would have put in Falealifii myself. I hope Skelton hasn't dropped his head and that he puts in a huge...

On tonight's game Lacey has a lot of work to do on his defence. He was good on attack but Veainu had a field day running past him.

Jones should have been brought in to the squad as a back-up at 6 but playing him at 8 is not a stupid idea. He is one of the up and coming options at 8, along with Skelton. I expect Skelton will morph to 8 at the Tahs when Palu retires and long term I hope to the Wallabies. But Jones is an...

If you changed the name Skelton in this post to Simmons then the rest of the post would still exactly fit. But Simmons has had ~50 tests to work on his skillset and still has been totally unable to improve and to my eyes has gone backwards. The team I posted a page or so back had a series of...

The reason that Genia has sound decision making under pressure is that he takes at least 20 seconds at every ruck to decide what the right thing to do is. It totally fucks up the rest of the backline and I hope that Genia does not EVER get selected again until he learns to act at speed behind...

Interesting to see that Link has not addressed the biggest issue in the pack. The 4,5,6 selections are really not delivering the balance of running that the pack needs. We know Taf will give us another runner, but he can only be expected to give about 50 mins this week and his primary task is...

Given the scrum issue against the Argies I can see Horwill and Skelton starting to provide enough grunt. Losing lineouts can be bad, but losing tight heads and penalty tries is suicide.

Both centres were slow to get up to their counterparts and the Spirit made huge inroads through there. I wasn't impressed with either. Taefu was opposed to Burton, who does have a good rep, but he had all the starch of Tofu. I'll see myself out!

The judge just revoked my parole and I am back in Adelaide for the term of my natural life. But it does brighten things up that I can see a game from the NRC live. Someone's doing a match report so I'll just make a few observations (not more than 2000 words - ha ha.) Rams had a much better 23...

For the last 12-18 months there seems to be concerted attempt by the referees to take the wheel out of scrummaging. Although the Stars scrum completely dominated, there was one, maybe two penalties against the Stars in the first half where I thought the wheel was perfectly legal. But then, the...

Has Stewart linked up with a Super franchise yet? I like the look of his skills. Been an excellent game so far with the Stars in control (which I seriously did not predict). But the problem with the three point conversion is now readily apparent. As backs do not know how to run round...

Braveheart: You are always looking for the bright side, but really that would be a poor locking roster to go into next season with. Chapman played really well at the end of the season but unless he can maintain that level of intensity and smarts over 80 minutes week in and week out, he's only...

I think its done very deliberately. It says "I don't care who you play where. We are going to play with this team and we are going to beat you because even if you know what we've got you still won't stop us!" Its a really ballsy statement when you are not the number one team. It says that even...