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No news at this point. But here is a speculator at who will be in the team's squad. Those in bold will be Super Rugby players from the Force. I'm assuming EPS players (most of whom haven't taken the field for the Force) won't be included in the 15 player limit. Some players will be managed due...

I think what Flip did was far worse than Stephen Moore. Moore punched Quirk, sure, but it was to the body and Quirk was being a fuckwit. Flip punched at Ryan's head and he was defenseless at the bottom of a scrum.

http://www.rugby365.com/article/59632-three-week-ban-for-bulls-captain Thanks BJ. I'll forgive you for that horrendously bad joke.

Link? That would be excellent for us.

Fine. Fine. But if we die in the arse against the Reds and the Blues, I will be saying that I told you so.

We will leave Christchurch demoralised either way. Why not at least have the positive of a few stars rested?

Two words. Dud Roodt.

Hasn't had any game time yet. I wonder if he is out of favour. Rory strikes me as a hard player, but not too athletic. With the way we are playing at the moment we probably need the latter more than the former.

We all know that will go to a Waratah. Probably Michael Hooper. I know it sounds unsportsmanlike, probably because it is, but I wonder if we are still in finals contention when we come back from Africa, should we tank the away game against the Crusaders and let a couple of stars rest? We go...

Sorry Sud, but every time I see you post I think- Who is it now? Battye was bound to go. He has barely played a game in four odd years at the Force. Hopefully he comes back one day. He has potential. I had hoped if he left, he'd have taken Hugh Pyles place at the Rebels. I really hope...

I was rewatching the Force Highlanders game from earlier in the season on a plane today. We got worked over by the Highlanders scrum in the first half (McCalman put in a fine performance to clean up the mess most of the time). In the second half we were equal or better. Holding out when we were...

I was in the South West and was only able to catch an online feed which wasn't that great. I thought he was telling us to pack higher because the scrums were collapsing because of the wet turf. Maybe I was wrong. Lots of factors could have influenced that one (I'll discount the Rebels factors...

None that I know of. It's possible there is a locality called Argyle (maybe used to be a town but has merged into the hinterland of a nearby town). Any word on Flip van der Merwe? It'd be great for us if he is out. I feel a bit of confidence for this one. We usually perform well against the...

I would have thought that the GFC would have a fairly big impact on attendance figures. The Force had an average crowd of around 25k for the first two years. A few years with limited success, Subi Oval being a shit venue and a couple of other factors hurt, but not as much as the GFC did in my...

I am hopeful that the Force will beat the Bulls next weekend. They'll be tired from the road and have one day less turn around. I reckon we'll also take at least one game in SA, beat the Lions at home and one of the Reds and Blues at home. That would make 4 wins.

The advantage for us is that we are under-rated compared to you guys. We also don't have as much depth. That actually works out as an advantage as a guy like Bundee Aki may never make the All Blacks consistently. Put a guy like that in Australia and he probably has less competition and is more...

He came in for the Force back in 2012. I thought he played pretty well. When the Force didn't sign him longer term I just assumed it was because he was a bit of a dickhead. I think we stuck with Sheehan for another year instead.

How did the Bulls look? Tired? How'd the set piece go?

I value any kind of data. To disregard stats is crazy. Of course they aren't the be all and end all. The point is that Higgers did not make up for the limited amount of tackles he had to make by doing anything of note. Despite the limited possession the Force had, McCalman was easily able to...

Looked like he did fuck all to me. If you are going to be a player who does a little and does it bloody well (a la Palu), you'd better do it bloody well. You could argue that Higgers didn't make as many tackles because the Rebels had the majority of the ball, but then why did he only make as...