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On a seperate note - agree it is good to hear Creighton is doing well. 7-8 years ago the Reds seemed to really struggle to help young players reach their potential. Now we seem much better at bringing guys in from the clubs who don’t necessarily have the massive wraps that some on the past got...

And you’re probably right. But I guess you only need to look at the fact that JOC (James O'Connor) is stepping down to realise it does take its toll on a players prep and I just feel McDermott could benefit from an extra year of just focusing on honing his craft. McDermott could absolutely thrive as captain...

I get all that. I’m not knocking the bloke and I’m not saying it’s a bad choice. I’m just not sure it’s in his best interests. Time will tell.

I find the decision to make McDermott co-captain an interesting one. I get where JOC (James O'Connor) is coming from, but it seems to me McDermott’s big focus this year should be improving his core game and winning the starting Wallaby gig (obviously by focusing on playing well for Qld). I wonder if the...

It’s potentially a big set back for him, not so much for the team. And even that depends where he is in the pecking order. I though he looked very good in his games last year and if you told me he was Thorn’s preferred starting 12 I wouldn’t have been surprised. But nor would I be surprised if...

Solutions that worked in your 20s don’t necessarily work in your late 40s

I guess my concern from the womens is that i thought the were handling the physicality of other teams much better in Dubai, but not so much last week or this week. Was good to see one of the ‘old’ heads Du Toit stand up when we really needed someone to. Agree with the sentiment in the mens...

Given that I am heading to Roma for the 7s, I feel like I only have one more fortnight ti go until the season starts. 7s will fill up today.

They are all essentially the same company though. They just kept changing names. Or maybe I should say a lot of the same people involved. My club got their jerseys through them. Had the same rep the whole way through. We switched switched to Canterbury last year. Quality is still excellent and...

I just think Harrison, Donaldson and Edmed will all get far more out of have Robert’s around and that will be of more benefit for the Tahs and Australian rugby then the benefit of bringing Vaihu in. Foketi & Perese as well - although there is a chance Perese will get pushed to the wing to...

For this season?

Didn’t I read his partner is Australian? Maybe the Tahs are playing the long game.

Well, personally I believe he is better than Banks and said as much several times. I think he should have been Brumbies first choice 15. But the Brumbies coaches, and almost everyone else as far as I can see, thought otherwise. In any case, it doesn’t make the Tahs responsible for his loss and...

It’s a shame Hansen went OS, but do we know the Tahs didn’t speak to him? I’d be surprised if that isn’t the case and I thought Coleman has already come out and said they’d spoken to players far and wide to fill spaces but were having trouble winning signatures. It might be the case they...

That can’t be good for cohesion :)

I kinda feel you’ll be more chance of a win against a NZ opposition then avoiding blow outs altogether. The Tahs core team is actually pretty sound. No disrespect to Tizzano, who was terrific in his first full year, but Hooper is several classes above. Combined with Swinton and either...

Haha - I’m not sure that I should love that as much as I do. Im kinda hoping the next sponsorship announced will be a 3 am kebab.

Really looking forward to seeing these teams go around again. The women’s side is playing as good as they have for 5 yrs and the mens team has a real look of a young group on the rise and keen to mix it up with the best.

You’d have to think so.

There are a range of issues - but we would be better off of it wasn’t as prevalent. Regardless of the issues. That was my point.