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Surely not! The Wallaby gameplan requires an expansive 10 and a conservative 12, as we saw on the last EOYT. The Brumbies gameplan requires a conservative 10 and 12, as we have seen this year. So, To'omua is first choice 10 for the Brumbies but first choice 12 for the Wallabies. Based on the EOYT...

Reckon this game will be a good yardstick for how the Waratahs will fare this season. Really need a four try bonus point this week.

No one except a Queenslander thinks the Grasshopper was a good League referee and in State of Origon clashes he just let incidents go and continued to watch the play. The end result was some pretty ugly brutality. Walsh was obviously concerned and you can see him trying to keep an eye on...

EOD was charged with unsportsmanlike conduct (not, as some think, eye gouging). If that whole ugly incident is considered sportsmanlike conduct by both involved, then we clearly need some new definitions.

If the Tahs can win the five games remaining then I think we are favourites for a home grand final. But if we win four I think we'll be pipped by the Sharks. Win three and we probably play away in the finals, lose three and we'll probably miss the finals. I'm laid up in bed at home with the...

But the consequence of this decision means that mangling someone's face in the tackle is not cardable. Next we'll have squirrel holds and chicken wing tackles, where the intent is to dislocate shoulders, and all other sorts of illegal, nasty stuff as OK. And as for the video evidence being...

And now the judiciary has exonerated EOD, reasoning that its OK to mangle someone's face providing both players say eye gouging wasn't involved and totally ignoring the video evidence.

It helped that almost all the kicks were adjacent, but it sure has improved in the last couple of weeks.

So its now perfectly OK to mangle someone's face as long as the other player says he wasn't gouged. The supposed evidence from the two players totally over-rode the visual evidence everyone saw. Even for the Sanzar judiciary, that routinely call black as white, that is an absolutely terrible...

Like just doesn't do it. I want the Saders coaches swabbed and their bank accounts checked. Even Hanson said the Crusaders refusal to change their gameplan was braindead.

Douglas is going because he feels, rightly or wrongly, that Link doesn't rate him and has Simmons and Horwill (at least) in front of him. The contract he was offered was similar dollars to the Euro deal but incentivised so that Douglas had to be selected for all games and the Wallabies had to...

Took me a while to figure things out because its round 14 with five to go. Assume italics means a loss. Sharks are favourites against the Blues, whose forwards are not playing great and whose team appears badly coached. They will beat the Cheetahs but as they'll be confirmed as top team they...

Force. Lions have been completely softened up by the Tahs. Tenderised by Palu, Skelton, Douglas and Horne.

This would have two grand outcomes: The Sharks would come back to the pack, where they deserve to be. Playing eight games against the SA conference is too much of a leg-up. It would freshen up the Blues chances of participating in the finals, which would make it harder for the NZ teams to get 4...

When you play Jakeball, kicking is your first, second and third option. When those three are exhausted, then you might try a run or two.

Some random thoughts: Crowds appear to be on the way back. Pity we are away for the next two weeks and then shut down for another three weeks. All momentum totally lost. Will Skelton was top three for MOM. People who think he is no good because he can't go for more than 20 minutes should watch...

Like Dingo was a quality Wallaby coach! Come to think of it, Dingo introduced that totally boring gameplan a year out from the World Cup too.

From a neutral point of view I thought the Rebels clearly outplayed the Reds. But.. the score was just too close. I expected the game to finish as a draw until the TMO callback and you have to ask why, if the teams were that close on the scoreboard do I and many others on the thread think the...

If you think its a good idea to have one of your best backs play 20 just so he can come on anywhere in the backline, you're dreaming. The correct solution is to play the best team and if injuries occur, rejig the backline as required. Back in the day when the Dingo was stuffing up our test...

This is partly a result of his peak power output, which is very high by comparison with other players. Right now he delivers massive power output over short intervals, which is what his coach is looking for from him. His endurance (total power output over 80 minutes) is still developing and...