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Only half an hour more before the team changes are frozen, if anyone's forgotten.

80 minites will seem like a century. Five players in your starting eight forwards have less than ten caps. Five out of seven backs will have less than fifteen caps. Only two players on your bench have more than four caps. If you take the front rows out, Victor Matfield will have double the caps...

Don't think so, Sau and Kingston both on the bench.

Its only Wednesday but already the butterflies are fluttering. Tah injuries are negligible, Brumbies have a lot of their stars in rehab. That should be a plus but the replacements are likely to really step up. And players like Andrew Smith always play well. That guy has a touch of the Conrad...

Sadly, I'd guess that the Brumbies have got their hooks in pretty deep. Lord Laurie has a very good eye for talent.

What the hell does JOC (James O'Connor) have to do with the Waratahs 2015 thread? Nothing I sincerely hope!

I agree, but that is not what the newspaper said. Still, journalists have been known to get it wrong occasionally. ;)

But Taqele and Crawford are both on the bench to cover wing. That tells me Alofa is doubtful and if he drops out one of these two will start. The most worrying thing is that Taqele is named first. His rugby defence has still got L plates. If Alofa is out I dread having Taqele facing Speight at...

The papers were saying that Morahan would not be selected for the Commonwealth Games squad because of his hamstring issue. This raises more problems for me: If he will be ready for next week, why wasn't he included in the squad? If he was ready for next week, why would the Force release him...

Schatz has been average this year but the rest of that pack is very strong. I doubt the Rebels pack will be able to go with them. However, the Reds backs are another matter altogether.

I'm a Crawford fan, but Alofa has a sidestep to die for and I think he's a bit quicker. Alofa to start with Crawford on the bench for mine.

Morahan's done a hammy. Keeping him out of the Commonwealth Sevens squad.

Has anyone heard any more about Carraro's mystery injury and Alofa's miraculous recovery? Or has Fox just got them mixed up?

Am I wrong in saying that this year the Blues have NEVER won away? The Force just need to stick to their gameplan, come out rested and firing and they will throttle the Blues backs out of the game. Mathewson is probably the player they want back most but even if he's not I don't think the Force...

I think there are a whole lot of game strategies we could use him for. Just one that comes to mind is using Skelton and Kepu as lifters for Simmons to catch. As soon as Simmons' feet hit the deck, Kepu and Skelton start a drive, while Simmons feeds the ball to the back of the maul. Anywhere in...

In the pile of poo that is the Cheika/Randwick discussion this gem sparked my brain cells - the thought that the regular pathway from Randwick to the Brumbies might have dried up because of the appalling gameplan that is Jakeball, the game you play when you can't play rugby. Jakeball is anathema...

Its an interesting quandary we have if Alofa is out. Normally with Crawford headed south next year, you'd want to be looking to develop new players. But we are on the crest of a wave and one wipeout will likely mean we miss the all-important home final. So we have to pick the best possible...

Now there's a connection I would not have made if I thought about it for a hundred years.

Ask the forwards coach. He sets the way the lineout plays.

Someone on the forum posted that Alofa was walking very gingerly after Shute with a knee concern. So, that may be an issue. That's very close to the team I would have posted. My only change would have been to have a 7:2 split on the bench so that we can rest Hooper as soon as we establish a...