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Writeup is up. A bit baffled by the Jackson/Madigan swap as well..watching Ulster right now and Jackson looks fine to me.

His selections and the lack of an apparent gameplan lead me to show very little sympathy for the man. I recognize there are other issues with French rugby that have made his tenure more difficult than perhaps it should have been. Unfortunately for him none of those things have any impact of...

Love Digby, but he's a broken horse and I haven't seen much of anything coming out of him in Europe to indicate that bringing him back into the Reds would do anything other than possibly provide short-term benefit.

I don't think they are paying him either. My argument was based around the resources that are being put in to training, feeding, all of the other things that go on the bill of USAR that occur at the OTC. These same resources could have either been used to develop someone who actually has a...

It truly blows my mind that PSA was elected, and remains, the head national coach of France. I can't think of a single team that has performed so far below their potential for so long. There's little reason France shouldn't be a perennially dominant force in Europe and challenging the Big 3 on...

The is Ireland's game to lose. Winning this match would be an enormous turning point for this generation of players. Don't let us down boys (and Joe!). PSA (as well as the lead up through Lievremont) has done to the French national side what the Nazis did to the Louvre..

If he can pull his head in I'd be over the moon to have JOC (James O'Connor) in the squad. We'd also get him for pennies on the dollar you'd think, all things considered. It's all bullshit until JOC (James O'Connor), his manager, or a Reds coach/administrator says something about it anyway.

When he was with Reds before going to Japan he was fastest player in the entire training group over 20m

Theoretically someone could run a scraper through ESPNs server and aggregate all the statistics they have recorded on there from the past 10+ years of tests. Just saying.

I played pretty shit when I was getting played out of position for nearly a year too. Meters run is a worthless stat unless you're looking at it in the context of the match. Running the ball back for 30m (ultimately losing 15-20m of territory), running from deep and getting 5m but getting hit...

He's a decent size back rower but he's faster than Rod.

Looking forward to both packs trying their best to turn the other one into mashed potatoes. Brums will be leaning on To'omua and Mogg to march them down the field - they have the stronger line out by a considerable margin. Cheika knows this, maul defense will have been drilled thoroughly...

I'm very far from sold on the concept of using an NFL player that retired half a decade ago to promote rugby to youth by any means - and I'm absolutely disgusted that they actually incorporated him into the Olympic Development group. Let's keep pissing away our very limited resources and see...

At least Care is kicking fairly poorly too 12Trees still looks out of his depth after double digit caps

Stats indicate a lower level of involvement from Quirk than you would want from a "high work rate" back rower and my film review backed that up. Schatz may be struggling to impact as well but he has more positive involvements and actually has been pretty effective in our line out, especially...

Schatz should stay and Quirk to the bench for mine. Quirk has had a lower work rate than you would want from your 6 and has been ineffective in a lot of his involvements. Schatz on the other hand is actually very important to our defensive line out right now. Beau in at 6. He isn't your...

We're all friends here! Anyway. If there's a single aspect of the PRP I haven't been too impressed with as a whole it has been kicking out of hand. Now as a disclaimer I haven't watched all the games but I've been watching quite a few and on a pretty regular basis so I feel that I've gotten a...

Concerns me that they didn't feel comfortable releasing a valuation of their newly acquired assets (from a business perspective)

If Genia moved the ball to the left it was probably try time on the left wing, or through the 5m wide hole Aidan was running into, or at least large meters made and more quick ball against a defense literally scrambling to get back and realign. Execution in this instance is a moot point as far...

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