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Correct! Though I believe he's regularly trained alongside the 1sts/2nds.

Could it be me you refer to good sir? Are you just a tad upset at me for lowering the idolising-of-Cheika quotient? Just as FYI: I don't give a flying fuck about 'going deep into the Finals at the RWC.' And nor do most everyday Aus rugby fans, the Wallabies in the RWC SF stage then right...

Just for balance re extensive notes re NC's injuries: ACGS had one of its best backs out all match v NC, and very early in this match its no 9 went down with a leg/knee injury and did not return.

Now that's an interesting assessment. ACGS must have just had a lucky day then. You really do think that's objective and balanced? Like ACGS really played little part in gaining a 20 point win over NC at their famous home fortress, that happening so often of course? The same NC team that Sage...

I doubt this precise option for RG as the incredibly insightful, all-seeing, all-investigating 'independent review panel of the Reds 2015 HPU' (staffed in part with a QRU board member) came up with the truly earth-shaking recommendations that: - The QRU should implement a General Manager -...

Yes. But please, let us go on results and actual outcomes. MC had what, 7 Tests pre Bled #2 to 'assess combinations'. But somehow that is not enough to really know what works best? So we know the ABs will hit back massively at the breakdown at EP, but let's give the long-ineffective-vs-ABs...

Interesting piece re the awarding of the gong for 'Who Stuffed up Most in Bled #2, QC (Quade Cooper) or To'omua?' http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/aug/16/quade-cooper-unjustly-cast-as-wallabies-bledisloe-cup-villain

As you may recall, I drafted the media release for RG's 2016 appointment some months ago. I don't know if the QRU has adopted it as yet, they have not PM'd me. Perhaps it contained typos. Though I suspect from the self-justifying speech that RG made at the Reds' Gala Ball, the following themes...

One thing is clear: Jim Carmichael will absolutely understand that when and if RG is announced as 2016 HC 'extremely careful media management and messaging to fans' will be needed. An 'interesting challenge' for Ballymore.

The chinks in Chek are starting to show, there is no hiding place once a national HC gets to around 8-10 Tests of tenure. - the 'rotational and experimental' changes to the Sydney squad were, as some of us predicted prior, high risk and potentially reckless, and at EP, they were revealed as...

Agree. Two YCs, and for the same offence, in a short Test season is inexcusable, period, and utterly reckless. This latest was wholly unnecessary. I'll offer some comments later, but, as I posted before the game, Cooper's real level of confidence is shot, he has lost a sense of what player he...

Huge game for Churchie that one. If they can play as they did against NC, they will win. Against NC, Churchie fixed virtually all of the flaws that had either hurt them or held them back in previous matches, as a result their potential to really play and consistently execute a forwards-led...

Really, letting Coles through, which should not have happened, is the key difference. This year's Wallabies soooooo much better than same team at this venue last year....so far, anyway.

Who do you think you're kidding - maybe fellow Kiwi posters here, but certainly not many others of us. That of course was precisely how the NZ crowds were calculating when they shamelessly. relentlessly, all of 80, booed QC (Quade Cooper), and his every touch of the ball, in RWC 2011. That dark national...

Kepu called it!

FT N 7 C 27 3rd year in a row ACGS beats NC (adding: 2 of those wins at Ross Oval).

N 7 C 22

At HT ACGS looks the better team. Long way to go though.

"Why sticking by Quade could prove a master stroke" - Wayne Smith http://m.theaustralian.com.au/sport/rugby-union/why-sticking-by-quade-cooper-is-a-cheika-masterstroke/story-e6frg7o6-1227484372009

FFS Pfitzy, you of all people 'softening' here. WTF do we think 'if the crowd helps out' from HRH McCaw means in this context, if not fucking highly aggressive, and relentless, booing? Do you think it means 'hang bunting in the stands', 'wave your hands at Quade', 'tweet or email...