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So basically he's Morgan Pukunui v2. Let's hope his Wallaby career lasts longer.

Yeah plenty of it at the Belconnen and Fyshwick markets

Haven't they been "introduced" already? Elliot, Cane, B. Franks/Crockett, SBW (you heard it first here...), B. Smith

Didn't miss any conversion attempts :)

It was quite strange not seeing him want to take on the line even with the ball he got at 1st receiver. He didn't seem overly vocal either.

It may not help with combinations, but that sort of basic skills about taking high balls in particular should be with every back given the amount of Garry owens these days. Kahui got moved to the wing having played all provincial and super rugby at 12/13. He worked on this big time with Byrne...

Mick Byrne. Has an AFL background. Next year he will be plying his trade with John Kirwan at the Blues.

It's interesting that over the Deans years he has used a plethora of back rowers vs the ABs (17 tests) Palu Smith Elsom Waugh McMenimen Brown Pocock Mumm Hodgson Higginbotham Samo Dennis Hooper Gill I can't help but think that Deans wouldve hoped for Palu being more healthy as he could've been...

Buying big name league players perhaps....

Damn Deans for making him eat all those pies..... Beale seems low in confidence also, not just since the test season started as well. The bank balance is probably doing okay, but he had a poor season at the Rebels and regularly losing isn't great either. Disrupted by injury yes, but something...

Didn't read all the comments on the A. Finger niggle. His brother gets easily wound up but one game in particular this year A. Finger did what I thought was stupid stuff was vs the Highlanders late in the season. He pulls Adam Thompson off a ruck and then holds him down the face into the ground...

Prior to Saturday he had played all of 15 minutes against Australia. I thought he was okay last week. He was used as the ABs main ball carrier and most of it was given in traffic. He was there to draw in numbers and he did that job well. He made mistakes but so did many other players wearing...

If the 5/2 is persisted with perhaps, but I think a specialist halfback replacement is still very important. How many years went by Gregan getting all the playing time and Cordingly and others getting splinters because he was an 80 minute man. But when GG got injured, Cordingly came in and it...

No doubt we missed Conrad he's been our best centre in 20 years. But SBW carried more times than any other AB player on Saturday and made decent metres as well. He didn't really get the offload game going sure, but the way we were getting quick ball off is runs after he had drawn 2-3 at least...

Like I wrote earlier, look at the work of the tight forwards and the lack of real impact and consistency and that is the reason Higgers is not able to play loose. I don't doubt that if the likes of Kepu, TPN, Timani were getting stuck in to secure ball that Higgers would have more opportunities...

So all the lead up work and decoy running and scrum work was pinning our hopes on the brilliance of Dagg. Not sure I agree.....

But why should he have to "stay tight". He is a loose forward after all.... The problem is that when the tight 5 are struggling with either the pace of the game or not being effective at the collisions (and I agree with Ash after watching a replay also that TPN and Kepu in particular did not...

Genia is a key player so when you're in with a sniff he's hardly going to be replaced.

I reckon he don't bother turning up to the stadium tonight...

I'm not a "told you so" kind of poster, but I had massive reservations about this move by Deans. You can look up some of my posts on here or on the Fern and see that the biggest hurdle I saw in this appointment is the cultural obstacles Deans would be faced with. Deans grew up in the NZ rugby...