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Ma'afu has gone overseas and won't be back for a while. Maybe you meant Manu, the young prop at the Force. He shows a lot of promise.

Way too early! Man he's got promise but next year at the Tahs he will only be a bench player behind Potgieter and Douglas. He'll be an exceptional replacement but that's all. I hope Link takes him away on the EOYT next year as a non-playing team member, like NZ did with Ardie Savea, just to...

3. Cooper 2. Folau 3. Mowen First game this year I really struggled on who to leave out of the top three!

I have previously suggested boundaries of Parramatta, Campbelltown, Blackheath and Windsor. While trying to be culturally sensitive ;) there are some real socio-economic differences between most of western Sydney and the good residents of Strathfield. Likewise, people from the Hills do not...

When they first came out I did not think anyone could design a worse away jersey than the Bulls last one - except for someone from Stade Francais. However the more I saw them the more I mellowed and I will quite miss them now. But I can tell you that this jersey trumps the last away jersey in...

The tradition is for "neutral" referees. Why on earth would you appoint a Greek referee to a game involving Cypress? Sometimes I wonder about the Referees Appointments Board, but usually I think they are just a clusterfuck! This proves it.

We MUST get rid of the idea that TG Milner (Eastwood) is a part of western Sydney. Western Sydney starts at Parramatta and encompasses an area bound by Windsor, Blackheath and Campbelltown. Culturally, Eastwood is more closely aligned to St Ives than Blacktown. Spacially, its a half hour...

If we must have 10 then the third team would have to be in Brisbane. But three in Brisbane and four in Sydney would severely deplete the available talent. Remember that these teams will be the Super squads minus forty players in the Wallabies. Super is five squads of thirty five players, but...

We really do run into trouble with Islander-heritage guys. He's going to have to become MS because that surname is just about impossible, even for a pedant like me. We need to keep Sri Lankans out of major test rugby - they are even worse to pronounce. :)

After the trouble Tony's in with the Indonesians, I am sure he would be open to "helping and funding" the Indonesian team with coaching and tours by Australian selected teams (maybe the indigenous team say). Wouldn't cost the ARU and would help improve our PR.

Once the AFL and ARL get advanced into their finals there are a lot more slots available for other programming and this only gets worse when the finals are over. This is why the darts are getting a run, along with the bowls and netball. If the timing of the new ARC ran from mid-August till...

3. Folau 2. Moore 1. Horwill

You're a hard marker. Only one of the greatest ever NZ sides were able to beat you. Now clearly 2nd on the IRU ladder.

Johnson's on his way out, replaced by a NZer.

To'omua's gone home. Next week it will be AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) in 13 and either Harris/Lilo in 12. On the basis of their play against Scotland I'd play Harris and make him the kicker. Lilo's kicking was poor and you can't reasonably blame the field. Simmons had a brain-fart, he often does. But that aside his...

I'll not be surprised if by 2015 he's slipped down in the pecking order, BUT he's got a lot of test caps and the NZ team do not lose a lot. That's true right across the board. Luatua, Romano and Jane would walk in to our best 15. That's what I admire about the NZ coaching staff. They use...

My fundamental point was that the wrong players have been chosen in the wrong positions. Even if we win by 50 that point won't change.

He left on QF1 at 1700 on Tuesday. It arrives at Heathrow at 0620 Wednesday. That gives him three and a half days to acclimatise. He's travelling east to west, which is the easier change. If he adjusted his clock before he left and slept accordingly he should have been 100% by Thursday...

A very interesting use of the English word "Interesting" The whole backline is just totally wrong for a multitude of reasons: Lilo should not be expected to play 13 straight off in a test against Scotland. 13 is the most difficult position defensively in the whole backline and I'm pretty...

Flat beds in business class and very comfortable; the only thing stopping him sleeping would have been the excitement/emotion of knowing he might get a second test cap.