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6 weeks.

Top four. Good effort.

Too many variables, I reckon.

Which was not the point I was making, I was talking more about Brad Thorn's success or failure in the short term being largely determined by his inheritance of players. And I am not saying that he will ever be a wonderful coach, although I think that, given the time and the players, he will do...

Maybe because either a franchise has the playing stock or it doesn't. Who is responsible for the future contenders? Not the current coach.

I hate to say it, because I would hate to lose any players, but Eastwood usually have pretty good frontrowers. Jed Gillespie for one.

STICK WITH THEM!!!!

Eastwood flew over there to play a trial game a couple of weeks ago against the Force. They were certainly not trounced, in fact they looked pretty competitive to me. Caveat: I have no idea how strong the Force team was. There is a replay on the Eastwood website, might be only accessible for...

Our next Wallaby (if there are a lot of injuries).

The last couple of lineouts were a shambles. Who knows why? I don't.

To'omua was pretty impressive against the Clan.

To'omua played really well. It does help when the piggies are on top, but he just looked the goods.

Eddie Jones was arguably the most successful of them as a player. He represented NSW. And he was the first grade hooker at Randwick when Phil Kearns was plucked from the twos to take the Wallaby hooker position.

There is a replay. Not sure how it can be accessed, I got a link with my Eastwood newsletter.

Those three were pretty ordinary, to put it as gently as I can. And we won't mention the other Jones, who never played the game, but led the Wobbs to our first Grand Slam.

"The silent majority" is a term that was coined by that crook, Spiro Agnew, and utilised by that other crook Richard Nixon. In 1969!

Johnny Sexton turns 35 this year.

Oh yes there is. Kyle Sinckler's try against us from 30 metres out. That is the sort of thing Tupou could do.

Not sure how we schedule Sevens "strategically"? Not live games, anyway.

I quite liked Bendigo, some wonderful old buildings. When I worked in Melbourne one of our biggest clients was Bendigo Bank. Mind you, that was a long time ago..........