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Sure, but it's a pattern. They lost to the Force by a point last year and there were 7 Force players in the SMH team, ahead of more deserving Reds and Brumbies players. It's just a different kind of narcissism.

Drew Mitchell was the best wing on the park this week. This tradition of picking no Waratahs (not that I mind, as a Rebs supporter) is slightly stale now. The SMH team is typical. The Reds win a reasonably close contest with a couple of easy tries and get 7 players in to zero.

This Waratahs team is mainly current Wallabies. If they're not good enough to learn to play ball in hand at Supe level then rugby in this country is over. But of course it's not, and they can.

People often talk about a team stinging after a loss, but the most common follow up to a loss is another loss. If a team really plays better when they're angry then they have coaching problems.

That's what I like about Reds supporters: they support their team as much in adversity as in victory. What I meant is they become a bit more fervent.

I support a different team most years. I'm on my second year of Rebels which is unusual. I supported the Reds a few times but after they won the Super Rugby a couple of years back it became like a cult. Go Wallabies!

Dagg however is unique.

A fantastic player, with an occasionally erratic pass. The problem was that when it went off, it went off badly. Still the #2 Oz halfback.

Well yes - today's his day in court.

There are plenty of league players who have represented the Wallabies, or gone very close to it, starting with as little experience as Folau. The fact the Folau's a celebrity doesn't mean he's as stupid as Lara Bingle. Neither is he any more stupid that any other league convert. Rugby's not the...

A full-strength Reds against the Lions at a packed Suncorp would be awesome. Will there be a G&GR cabal? Could we organise seats together?

That doesn't make sense. Who are all of these who can play Supe Rugby and already are? There are dozens of high quality PI players in Europe. Why "can't" they play super rugby? Are you saying they "won't" because of the money? A combined PI squad could easily be a finals contender.

Getting a national squad together for a few days before a season starts is perfectly reasonable. Finding fault with it smacks of paranoia and obsession. New Zealand, for example, bonds considerably more closely throughout the year. It doesn't seem to hurt their game.

Indeed. These guys are being paid more in top ups than most Australian families earn. I'm sure they can give up the last long weekend of their holidays without attracting undue moaning from the gallery.

But perhaps not a "yellow jersey".

Or a Growden semi-fantasy, where he makes something totally banal up, runs it past a player or coach after training, gets a perplexed nod, then attributes it to them. "Wallabies to shower after games, says Pocock." Ah, the bad old days.

I'm of the other view. I reckon he'll be a starting Waratah from the first game, although higher representative honors this year is too much to expect. If he stays he'll do it next year. We've seen several far less talented and lauded mungo imports go close in the same timeframe, such as Will...

Ha, that's fantastic!

You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.

s Not really. B'man said years ago that the Brumbies' greatest mistake was selling the Fainga'as. If they were Gordon boys then Ant would be a midfield roadblock and Dec would be a girl with project hair.