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Lazy-aki past his prime? Shudder. But I get your point.

I disagree about the French tests being a waste of time playing Foley at 10. Foley went in with great form, had a merely average first game in a very strong team performance, and below average second and third games...

Really only the losses of Digby, Lance and Morahan in the backs. In the forwards, only really Samo that I can think of, and Samo barely played last year. Not enough to explain the huge difference in how the defence went.

I've been thinking the same thing for a while. I was very unimpressed with Foley's organisation vs the French. Foley's organisation looked better with Beale on the field late vs the French when To'omua got subbed, and I don't think that's a coincidence. Interesting that some on The Roar are...

I'd expect there's about to be 10 or so Tahs in the average 22 in 2014, no problem there. Was more in a response to the references to The Roar article. What's more impressive is when you look at how many of those Chiefs were in an average All Black 22 in 2012 and 2013. Also note who the...

Back tracking a little, but I would've thought that ringing up a heap of players from your best performing Super Rugby team into your test team as a path to victory has been well and truly debunked. Particularly as, shown again and again, Super Rugby form doesn't necessarily translate to the...

The fact that the Reds seem to have adjusted their defensive system from 2013 where they conceded the third lowest in the comp at 296 against (Stormers 292, Brumbies 295) is a little mind boggling.

It was actually 1 for the trip, 1 for the kick in the face, and an extra week due to loading. edit: was a grade two trip, too. Amazing that trips have such a low points rating.

If we want to get really technical, either Folau is from Minto and McKibbin is from Scotland, or Folau is from Sydney and McKibbin is from Brisbane. McKibbin did move there when he was 3. Depends if you call Moore from Saudi Arabia or from Brisbane, or Pocock from Zimbabwe or Brisbane. Or...

I'm not going to belabour the issue, but this year there were just some absolutely shocking teams on attack. Sharks: 29 tries Bulls: 28 tries Stormers: 30 tries Lions: 31 tries Rebels: 29 tries The Brumbies, playing a style of semi-Jakeball, scored 49 tries. On the face of it, 42 tries...

Most of our tries were from close range, too. We were unable to finish nearly every line break we made further out, it was pretty diabolical. There was a strong reliance on field position, hence the feel of munted attack, I suspect. We also refused to attack or barely every hold the ball in...

Congrats Tahs, best team during the year, deserved win. Was a fitting game to boot, exciting and good advert for the game. Shame I missed out on making it to the game, came down with the flu during the week and am still out from work. Second grand final with an Australian team winning that I...

Even most league supporters hate Rothfield. The guy is awful.

Anyone know which sides Kite and Paraka prefer?

Looks a prop short, would be surprised in the main squad only has 4 props. I'd guess that the main squad + wider squad would have 6 - 7 props in total, 5 of which would be in the main squad.

Sure, he was better than Veratau, but that's not saying much. Va'aulu was a bit of a journeyman quality player I thought. Veratau was just pedestrian and looked great on the end of a star studded Brumbies backline where he just had to fall over the line, then at the Reds we found out the...

Lilo won't come close unless there's injuries. I agree with someone who said earlier that if the team was picked now, he probably wouldn't make it he's been in that average form and his kicking is that bad. Give Lilo the NRC then a good off season.

Depends on the injury, I think. I think with knees, for example, the worse it is the less pain you feel. I know a guy whose knee cap was basically around the wrong side and he felt no pain, to the extent he tried to stand up before he knew how bad it was. One thing though is when you do...

Can anyone pick the odd ones out? I'm having a little difficulty.

I actually thought that the Tahs got quite a few more decisions go their way than the Brumbies, but Peyper had a quite a few howlers on both sides. There was almost no rule book at times - I swear I must be the only one who thought that Hooper's terrific tackle on Mogg actually should have been...