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3. Slipper 2. Kepu 1. White

Given that our highest priority should be the preparation for the RC upcoming, my team would be: 1. Slipper 2. Charles 3. Kepu Reasoning: With Moore crocked we have to give Charles serious time to get him test experience. TPN will be in 16, and can cover any disasters. 4. Simmons 5. Skelton...

This game was not a good display of the Wallabies at their best. The last twenty pages indicate a lot of what went right and what went wrong. But to understand those who thought the game was poor, think back to Bledisloe 1 in 2000. That night neither team was fixated on a field position gameplan...

I think you totally misunderstand the nature of the aura. Its not something beyond their control that causes other teams to lose. An aura is something that one or more people "see" that is not able to be seen by others with a more scientific and less intuitive bent in their personalities. I have...

I thought he was the best French player on the ground last Saturday.

I know he's playing out of position and probably injured as well, but he has not looked good over the last month for the Sharks.

Given the comp rules for squads, I assume this means someone has gone home injured? Has anyone heard who it might be?

If that were true, we'd be lucky to get one article a week for the bog to qualify.

I'm just surprised he wasn't called up earlier. He's played some absolute belters over the past two years. Raw for sure, with some really inconsistent performances week to week, but he looks to me like the natural replacement for Savea when he goes down.

So what do you want? You only get one Catchpole in a lifetime, so.. Do you choose Genia, who appears to have lost the ability to do anything without taking time out to think about it and therefore has to box kick (badly) because all his supports are already covered? Do you choose White, who...

You might think its tripe, but I would say its not disrespectful to the NZ team; just debunking that aura of invincibility that has hovered over them since 2012. That aura has led to most teams being beaten before they ran on. I would argue it was the reason that Ireland went oh so close last...

Because the IRB want to save costs they have truncated the groups to three and allowed only one loser to progress. Because you can't really compare the quality of teams in different groups, the choice of the fourth team for the semi-finals is a bit of a lottery. IMO Australia and New Zealand...

"Coq's in panties". Don't you just love Google translate sometimes.

Your last sentence needs to be deleted and never mentioned again!

How good is it to sit here for 15 minutes and still not be able to figure out who the best three players were, let alone what order they're going to go in. Some games last year I couldn't find three players to give points to. Slipper Folau AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) HM: TPN, Kepu, Carter, Hooper, Simmons, Fardy...

Deans and his gameplan turned off many, many people. You had to be a rugby tragic to be keen to watch an Australian test. JON and his never-explained folly of re-appointing Deans before the WC when success at the WC was one of his KPI's meant that we had over five years of Deans rubbish rugby...

This quote is straight out of the management textbook. The mantra is "Don't focus on the outcome! Focus on getting the processes right and the results will follow as night follows day."

I thought the English gameplan for the U20's was very good. It looked like they'd stolen Cheika's notes. Very aggressive at the breakdown, big, hard, fast forwards and a backline prepared to throw it around a lot. Let's just hope that by the time those guys get to 23-24 that the dopey English...

Then I'd guess the total watching numbers might well be in excess of 100K. IQ viewings would be included in the 76K but if I remember correctly it started around 8 or 9 o'clock, when lots of people might have been watching, particularly those who saw the news and heard the result and that it was...

Am I right in saying that only the best team that doesn't top its group goes through? If that's the case then we need no four try bonus points and someone to lose by 8 or more.