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After this season you can probably have Robbie Abel back. He'll end up being replaced by the Ginger Ninja, Harry Scoble, unless Tessman leaves.

That's a pretty contentious call (but I like it). We don't have much by way of impact players coming from the bench as the past season has shown. Palu coming on for 20-30 minutes would be epic. McCalman is a much better player to have playing 60-80 and if injury struck could move to 6 fairly...

I get that and I agree with you about not agreeing with Cheika. I guess the ideal would be to have guys like TPN and Palu back from injury. It's a shame Kane Douglas left. At the time I didn't think it was a big deal but with the downturn in Horwill's form we are left with egg on our faces.

I wasn't super impressed by our attack last night. I'd rate two of our three tries as coming from opposition mistakes (e.g. Phipps' first) leading to unstructured play. We only really created one (which arguably was a forward pass). We have the skills to capitalise on those unstructured...

Well I fucking well am now. What the fuck?!

I have no idea. I'd hope so.

Hopefully he'll be good to go at the start of the year after surgery. He'll need to work a bit on reducing the number of yellows he gets- even if a couple were more "team cards". But he has the frame and played a few really good matches last season.

Thanks for coming over. About time we had some quality pre-season fixtures.

Pyle has gone unfortunately. Reckon Adam Coleman can move in alongside Neville as the possibles on the fringe. After that we are scraping the barrel pretty thin at the moment.

Wayne Barnes. When was the last time the Wallabies lost when he was the ref?

Thing is that we actually seem to be winning fewer games since Folau joined the Wallabies with mostly the same players involved in the team. Is that the loss of Kane Douglas? David Pocock? Injury woes? Bad coaching? The loss of form of Genia and Horwill? Folau is a great player but at the...

Jones, Hooper, McCalman is a good mix for the backrow and is well worth a try. I'd put McMahon on the bench as a reserve for Jones. And Horwill or Carter as the replacement lock. Skelton shouldn't play another minute of test rugby in 2014. Not a fan of Schatz and don't think he should get a...

I don't mind it. Would like to see what it looks like in use (e.g. training footage).

I'd like to see that too. Would love to see Godwin get a run. Can't see Foley being dropped outright though. But maybe the rest will do him good.

Hypothetical: McCalman played in the second row for at least one full season at the Force. He also played there a bit at Sydney Uni IIRC. Would you get McCalman to scrum at loosehead lock and Skelton at 8 if you had 5m scrum and things were looking dire?

Against the Barbarians in 2009 (which they lost): New Zealand FB 15 Cory Jane RW 14 Ben Smith OC 13 Tamati Ellison IC 12 Luke McAlister LW 11 Zac Guildford FH 10 Stephen Donald SH 9 Brendon Leonard N8 8 Rodney So'oialo OF 7 Richie McCaw (c) BF 6 Liam Messam RL 5 Anthony Boric LL 4 Jason...

My dream would be to take 5 years of age and experience off Radike Samo and put them into Sean McMahon. Then you could have a McMahon, Hooper, Samo backrow. That would be awesome. Samo as the line-out jumper and the high impact player. Hooper and McMahon tackle like crazy and have the athletic...

I like Hooper. I'm a big fan. But I think you need balance with him. To me, Hooper and Fardy make a good combination. Hooper and McCalman make a good combination too. Not as good in some ways (more breakdown penalties won with Fardy) but good in others (less breakdown penalties against us with...

To be fair, Greg is correct on that. No other Wallaby coaches are able to give him a six hour erection.

Or if Scotland do win it will be like the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior?