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I agree on Clyde - one of the most balanced runners I have ever seen on a footy field too. Superb player. For an 8 I always thought Bob Lindner would have crossed over quite well - particularly in his later career when he was massive. Steve Renouf would also have been wonderful as an...

Has anyone actually ever beaten the all blacks? If I recall correctly, it has ALWAYS been the all blacks that lost. at least that's always the message after the game

Are there two G.Jackson referees running around at the moment? If this is the New Zealand one, I am quite surprised to see him elevated to international level.

Friday night games are a bit "meh" tbh... the crowd is usually pretty flat. That could just be me since it always seems to be a mad rush to get there after work. The start of the season looks pretty tough for the reds, but then I am not so sure it's really any worse than aspects of the...

The message coming across in this thread is that the NZ's are not too fussed about watching the wallabies though - so if they are not too fussed about it then why should it matter that the NZ public "have only one chance every year"?

Perhaps it is not always queenslanders that choose to see what they want to see. I give full credit to AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) in that scrum for yielding just at the right time to screw the scrum around forcing the ball to pop out for Hooper to collect. How the hell we aren't picking him for a run on 6 is beyond me.

Well, all I can say is thank fuck we now have a Victorian coach who played for the brumbies and waratahs as well as coached the tahs and reds. Hopefully he holidayed in Perth a lot, and maybe, just maybe he truly will be the messiah that finally bands us together. (Or maybe he is just a very...

Ah I see now... It is not the taking out the player without the ball - it is the shoulder charge? Given how many incidents have not been penalised this year in super rugby I thought that his movement of his arms around the player were sort of OK as a basis of a tackle attempt and what I...

Perhaps it is more the other previous times that has made me so aware of this campaign and not so much this one - and I possibly am a bit off in my timing to bring it up in this particular instance... I just saw the incident as little more than what happens 10 times a game in the springboks...

I reckon he gets singled out a lot more than others is my main point. Regarding the specific issue of the off the ball stuff... Well I don't think there was a massive amount of damage there to the opposition in terms of danger and again nothing that doesn't happen in other games with the all...

An Yeah, it was daft. At least Timani has never done anything so daft as to get sent to the bin for something so retarded. :/

Haha - fair enough.

(acckkk!!! I can't seem to edit my own posts :/ ) What I mean by that is that Mowen is considered to have had a pretty good game by most, when he also gives away some pretty awful infringements (more often than Simmons).

And yet Mowen is penalised more often.

Gee, Rob Simmons seems to be getting a right pasting (again) in the rankings. Other than the daft tackle on Contemponi (btw - I would rather that than the absolutely pathetic attempt that Timani put on in about the 70th minute which opened a massive hole), I thought he had a pretty good game...

I really hope we try to keep the same team going. Teamwork and learning from the previous all blacks and springbok game experiences is best achieved by having the same players who experienced it first hand.

Whilst obviously very happy with this result, it really does strike me that the Pumas did not play too well. Perhaps that is due to the pressure we put on them - but certainly it couldn't have been the pressure from our defence (which was pretty ordinary). I hope we continue to concentrate on...

I've gone the shute shield and premier rugby option. I think that things that organically grow from something that already exists tend to be more successful and at least have a ready made emotional investment from (some) fans.

Somehow Fardy, Hooper and Mowen have individually played pretty well but managed to completely fuck up when it comes to the breakdown management which is one of their main tasks. I have no clue how this is happening, except that what it is that they are doing well must be the wrong things...

@braveheart. The other angle screenshots tell a different tale, particularly since somehow Ben Alexander is supposedly marking louw and yet Cooper is the only one who even gets close to touching him. I think it is perhaps irrelevant anyway given Ben Alexander and Horwill are nowhere near their...