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Well, I know there is going to be a flood of negativity but I enjoyed that game and I thought some guys bounced back well from last week. Well done the French.

This has been a cracking game

Liam Gill would’ve scored that under the posts.

I’m loving Ala'alatoa’s work since he came on too

Watch closer then

Good clean out by McDermott. I’m guessing he didn’t learn that from Genia.

I’m liking Swain. Good to see a young bloke getting stuck in.

He’s been a bit quiet - but I do think he’s been doing plenty of work at the breakdown. I think everyone just wants him flattening guys, but sometimes he just needs to do truck loads of unglamorous stuff and if he can add a couple of crucial tackles he’ll have done his job. Speaking of doing...

Yeah - but the chase on the second one was even worse.

Valetini made a couple of key stops in that little passage.

Okay - I have two problems with this bit. Firstly - you don’t want a coach who is prepared to out enormous pressure on himself to win? Secondly, you think it’s a better to give yourself more chance in game 3 by putting less emphasis on winning game 2? I feel like I must be misunderstanding -...

Not so bizarre really. Clearly you and I are on the money and Ignoto is off the planet :)

There should be. Absolutely. But IMO Gordon has been the form half all year and has had one bad game. I’m not an advocate of knee-jerk selection policies or a ‘one strike and your out approach’. Is there a player in the team who hasn’t had a shocker at some point?

Sorry Cyclo. That wasn’t my intent at all to take the conversation there - it was just the way the conversation rolled out. But point taken and I’ll leave it there.

Rugby is better off for the parochialism and passion though. I just don’t think it spills over anywhere as much as is it is made out to. I think the assumption that the criticism of Hooper is always because he is a Tah is probably flawed too — although there is definitely some of that...

Actually I saw a profile of our squad they will be very close to the age profile this World Cup. Guys like Wilson & Lolesio are balanced of with guys like JOC (James O'Connor), Slipper & White. And there is a group of players like Tupou, Ala'alatoa, Salakai-Loto, Vunivalu, Phillips, etc who, from memory, will...

For all of the time that they were both at the Tahs that was true - although there was one year I think it was line ball. But I don’t recall Phipps ever playing as well for the Tahs in his time there as Gordon did this year.

Disagree. Phipps passing was well below the standard of both Gordon & McDermott. Getting ragged on because he was a Tah? Maybe that was true for some supporters but he got ragged on when he was at the Rebels - so that doesn’t stack up. He got ragged on because his passing was poor and it was...

I’m not so much defending Gordon. I thought he was poor - but I thought he was very good, when fit, during Super Rugby. And I don’t think it is always necessary to punt guys after 1 bad outing. I’m personally okay with him being retained. I guess my position on McDermott is that I don’t mind...

Yeah - I thought I remembered Tate stuffing one, but I note Rennie said they were very happy with his kicking in the presser.