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The game was awful to watch unless you are a rugby tragic. Its no accident that the two worst games this year in terms of entertainment have been the Sharks/Cheetahs and the Brumbies/Sharks. I don't really agree with Qwerty's post. No one expects a ten try extravaganza in those conditions but...

The Force would have loved to have had the Cheetahs early in the season. Unfortunately they are finally starting to show the form that took them to the semi's last year. This will be a tough match; the Force will be rested after the bye and if they can impose themselves on the opposition in the...

Just as long as we don't sign any Sri Lankans. Their names are like Welsh towns!

Just wait till you get to the finals series under this current proposal and realise that the likely outcome is that nearly all the finals games will be played in SA by virtue of the fact that there will be four deadbeat teams in the two SA conferences - Lions, Kings, Argies, ANO - five points...

Bloody beauty!! I'm not worried that Tilse has the back-up loosehead spot in the squad. He is 28, which is not old for a prop, just about a prop's prime. I challenge anyone, anyone, to list a game he has played for the Tahs where he has let the team down. He has limitations sure, but he...

I'm not so sure that Hooper is an "opensider" either but he will be the seven we choose for the winter tests. The role of 7 as a pure pilferer seems to be changing as more players take on the role. In past years you would say that Bismark was the Sharks best open side flanker (pilferer), but he...

Regardless of whether he is any good or not, his surname is an absolute nightmare. I think he's going to have to become Taqele or else we'll have to cut him. :)

There are reports that Coetzee's injury won't be right either. If he's out then the advantage is very clearly to the Brumbies, and a loss against a weakened team would not be good for morale. This is one the Brumbies have to win - for the Chiefs, Crusaders, Hurricanes, Force and Waratahs as well...

Oz, If you can find a replay somewhere you should watch the whole game. It had everything from an Izzy howler conceding a try to some absolutely sublime running rugby from both teams, only a few scrums and those that happened were relatively clean. I will be keeping that game on the hard drive...

As a Tahs fan I sure hope so!

You are right that Catchpole is the benchmark. I'm a hard marker maybe because I expect Phipps to pass quickly and accurately. Its a measure of how good Foley is that he can cope with Phipps and still look good. To play the up-tempo game the Tahs want to play, the halfback skills have to be...

The six are the five others quoted as 1-5 plus getting to the back of every ruck quickly. I think it adds up. My degree was in Mathematics, yours I think was in cutting people up. :)

And Brussow is starting to look like the pest of old. Poor bastard won't make the Boks again, Meyer is focussed on big slow brutes as open side flanker. But I reckon the Cheetahs will clear the bottom of the table over the remaining rounds, they are starting to look good again, though they need...

Perhaps it would help if Phipps got to the ruck a little more quickly- about five minutes more quickly! There were times there when you could have got a beer and drunk half of it before he got to the back of a ruck. God knows where he was, smelling the roses maybe. This is one of six key...

Someone challenged me, on another thread I think, about my claim that the Sanzar judiciary was totally inconsistent. I rest my case.

If you read some of my posts I would like to think some gentle humour can be found (mostly of the Dad joke variety). I also know that some really serious issues can often be softened with a joke. But I just don't want anyone to think that any team might tank in Super Rugby for any reason. Lets...

And that just could be the Tahs downfall for a high finals spot. But if we don't hit a bad injury patch I don't see it happening because the Waratah backs have hit a sweet spot while the Reds backs are in serious disarray and don't look like getting out of it any time soon.

Yes I have read the findings before and I stand by my claim that the only consistent thing about the Sanzar process is their inconsistency.

Is anyone else really uncomfortable with the talk about match fixing? I was always respectful of Hansie Cronje and Lance Armstrong and was absolutely gutted when it came out what they had done. I just didn't think that two guys who I respected so much could stoop so low. Personally I don't...

In a word, YES