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Toulon announced they had Folau at one point.

The great thing is that we've gone from lock being our weakest link, to a half-dozen players putting their hand up based on the quality of their play.

Kuridrani's a pretty deft wide distributor these days.

That been a Genia fault even when he's been good. Halfbacks should yap not flap.

It's not for his benefit that Australia would do this. It's for ours. Our biggest problem in the future is player drain. Either we're going to combat that or we're not. This would be one player at least partially secured. I'm amazed to see so many rugby supporters turn their nose up at it...

Why is it redundant? If he turns out to be a very good winger, in the same vein as Nadolo, then he can play for Australia in the future, instead of for Scotland. That's to his advantage, and ours.

Will they need a rest? There's five weeks between the final TRC and RWC1. Six weeks to the crunch match against England! What they'll need (and what the Wallabies will need) is a game. Cheika will surely play his A team vs. both the USA and Fiji, to get them up to speed.

The problem with playing that style in the RWC is that we'll be playing it against teams who are better at it, because they play it all the time, in those conditions. You can't win by playing to your opponents' strengths. You might pull off an occasional upset, but not a series of them.

I'd put him on the bench in the opening game of the RC.

Meh. Jonny Wilkinson was a special kicker, but only a solid fly half. Butch James is military medium. Cruden is obviously good, but his replacement in the 2011 final was named after a duck.

The man with 10 on his back will have little to do with that. September's show is brought to us by the numbers 1-8. With good ball any of our candidates will do the job well enough.

Stirzaker is easily the 2nd best halfback in Oz, and on form maybe the best. He's also the best fit to play the style of game the Wobs are likely to play. If he were starting for the Brumbies or Tahs then he'd be tearing up I reckon.

I don't think JOC (James O'Connor) has put in a really good game (in a sense that would elevate him to a default Wallaby pick) since he left Australia. I personally didn't see all of his games overseas, but people who did seem to say much the same thing: moments of brilliance is all he produced. He certainly...

Sports teams usually play worse when they're pissed off. That's why other sports teams devote so much time and effort to pissing them off.

Absolutely. Sometimes you need 3, 5 or 7 points so you have no choice.

It's an interesting question. It's always a value equation, but rugby theory seems to be changing, with lots more teams now preferring to go for the corner from kickable wide positions. What has changed? Presumably the perceived likelihood of scoring from the resulting line out, as opposed to...

That means the England game may be their first game in seven weeks. The Fiji game is a critical hit-out for the first team before playing England and Wales. We really need that Chicago game.

What about Little Creatures Bright Ale and Pale Ale?

Ha, I'll pay that. :D

Wow. Just wow. Why don't you show some respect for our players in adversity, you know-nothing, bravely anonymous prima donna? Frankly I think that's the most disgusting post I've ever read on here.