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I think it was brumbieman or someone else from Brumby country advocating picking no reserve halfback and "praying" Genia doesn't get hurt. I can understand that Genia's an 80 minute player. Not all reserves are there for so called impact, some are there if injury occurs and halfback is one...

Funniest. Thread. Ever. My personal take on this is that I'm surprised by the some of the outrage I've read about the actual process when it's within the scope of the IRB to do what they've done. I don't think transparency is a problem at all unless someone from the ARU (or another union)...

At the airports it does.....

No it shouldn't. It has been shown over many many years that some players have very indifferent club/provincial/super form but step up at test level. Team selection is a very subjective matter and coaches would be crazy to run the same ruler over each individual player, because every player is...

I thought JOC (James O'Connor) put enough doubt into Davies mind to have him probably a step or two out of position to be able to cover AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) effectively. AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) ran a good line but had enough head of steam that if Davies didn't have his body in position to put the shoulder in, he wasn't going to be stopped b a...

I think Deans will be very tempted to bring in Smith in a must win decider especially if things don't go well for Horwill in Monday night.

Ditto

You going to the test FP? Deans is likely to only make forced changes because of injury. Not sure wht there is even talk of Cooper when he's not even in the squad. Seems strange. Unless of course the likes of JOC (James O'Connor), Beale, Lilo break down with injury during the week he may get a late call up. But...

I think Douglas never really recovered after that 1st half knock. But he wasn't as effective. Thought Hooper was pretty solid tonight. Geez there were a few rucks where he saved some ball on his own because other forwards were too slow. Just watching through a bit of it now again and the...

That's what I said about Tomane. He seemed to be not phased by the occasion and what was happening and played his natural game.

There were some pretty long periods of play in that second half, with some end to end stuff. Both sides had plenty of players sucking in the big ones. Just the whole atmosphere seemed to get the better of a few from both sides tonight. Lions backline had a very tough night in attack. They...

Is that why he got dragged.....

But is it the gameplan or the nerves and what's happening out on the field that causes a large number of the players to play within themselves and take fewer risks. Tomane for example seemed non-phased, still carrying the ball in one hand in close quarters trying to get through lots of...

I just think the Wallabies were so nervous tonight that they played within themselves for 3/4's of the test. They were trying not to lose, lost concentration and at times got lazy - hence the high number of handling errors, poor realignment, frustration etc. When Aussie held on to the ball and...

I thought Sam Warburton should've got MOTM

Aussie had a lot of good setups IMO but the errors and lack of polish let them down. You could tell that the Wallabies were quite nervous for the whole game. I blame Deans

Just proves there is nothing in these two teams. Unbelievable drama. What are the odds on two consecutive tests being decided by kicks after the siren.

Well that was new. Folau gets lifted whilst he's the tackler and then gives North a DDT

Palu that's crap. Drag him

How does Gordon Bray know about grandparents. The guy is either a genius or just making crap up :)