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Right now our scrum is not just a bit weak; it is absolutely and disastrously so weak that in the next two games we are likely to start 21 points behind zero due to scrum penalties. The factors that have led to this IMO are: The terrible coaching of our scrum, which has seen appallingly bad...

Maybe for travelling fans but the two blocks of three away games will be a very tough ask. Sharks first, then Stormers - you'd think we would drop at least one of those games and then the Force on the way home will be a real banana skin game. Second block has the Rebels, Chiefs and Reds and...

This from someone who supports a team whose 12 has twice in three games cleaned up a player with an illegal and dangerous shoulder charge, whose only intention was to maim and hurt. But NZ players don't play like that, if it looks like they do then its just something wrong with the TV set that...

Yeah, right. The short sighted thinking re Adelaide started when they took the Sevens away from there to try the Gold Coast. Crowds went down, not up! But no one wants to talk about that little error. If we just had a real, carefully thought out strategy to market the game in non-Super...

Tim Horan was a great of the game. But in the Fox commentary team he and Cannon vie for the wooden spoon of commentary, worse than Marto. You would hardly think this was possible. His comments are parochial rather than measured and they have proven time and again to be wildly inaccurate...

To summarise what has been posted and add some bits: Palmer struggled for most of the year with his foot injury and finally had surgery. That's why he didn't get selected for the Brumbies. He has been the best scrummaging THP in Australia since before he left the Waratahs. As a Waratahs fan I...

We don't need a 1 we need a 3!

If Turner stays healthy he will be the first player picked for the back three. People forget how well he played in his test match appearances, for a couple of years he was a permanent fixture at the Tahs, until his run of injuries started. The guy is quick but more importantly he is an...

Poite was pretty clear in his referral. He was sure the tackle was illegal and asked the TMO to report on any foul play in the ensuing melee. The TMO (George Ayoub, very experienced) reported no act of foul play in the melee and suggested he should therefore go with his previous ruling. It...

Is this just hope, or is there some substance in the rumour? Salesi Manu and Albert Anae look to have potential. Smith, when he has come on as a replacement, has been pushed around a fair bit. He only got a run because injury opened up the space and there was no one else. I don't think...

Its time we called bullshit on this. The game has come down to a kick and scrum fest. Count the number of times up till Bismark's dismissal that the NZ team kicked an up and under. It was virtually their only way of attacking once the ball left the forwards. SA were just as bad. This RC NZ...

The interesting thing about the article is that it shows that the quote is a misleading interpretation of what is the basis for MAN U's success. A number of c**ts have been a successful part of the team's success. It is how they are managed that counts - if they contribute they stay, if they...

The only chance that you are correct in your prediction is if the ARU start building a whole program around schools competitions Australia wide, so that it begins to grow from the ground up. That would mean schools from all over Sydney and especially schools in the west where League is king...

My memory says that the three wise men were not sacked but they merely swapped roles for a while. It was done because they felt they were getting stale in their old roles after a number of years. Didn't turn out so bad either.

There's some benefit to being old. I got to see Ken Catchpole and John Hipwell play (mainly in back and white of course, maybe that made them look better). They both played in an era when our team was nowhere near top 5 and it was expected that the pack would be going backwards all day. They...

Its an attractive thought but only because we think Link must be a good forwards coach with the pedigree he has. A couple of times in my business career when things were going badly in a particular area I tried to take responsibility for that area instead of replacing the section manager. It...

This part of the post i really liked. Especially the bolded bit.

TPN in place of Moore, who goes to the bench. Fardy in place of Pyle, who would go to the bench. Palu (for someone who 50% of posters on this site have got no time for, we have seen in the last three games how badly he is missed) to 8, Higgers to 6 and Mowen to the bench. Higgers calls the...

I was and I wrote the original. I was trying to explain to a previous poster why the SA team was now within a whisper of being no. 1 in the rankings, despite the AB's not having lost a test since England last year. It had nothing to do with Australia, except that we had just lost badly to both...

SA have won about eight straight, with a number of those games away. I think this is what has helped them narrow the gap considerably.