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Cheika's comments on the Rugby Club tonight I thought were interesting. Paraphrasing, I think he acknowledged that the Waratahs could not play the gameplan the Reds did, particularly without Cooper, but that they would play their own gameplan and see where it goes. Interesting because although...

That would work for me , too.

Based on Deans' comments and who is available, that I think is THE MOST LIKELY set-up. There are some advantages to this line-up that haven't seen much discussion: The Lions have seen enough highlights reels to know not to kick to Folau. But when Barnes fields a kick in play, if Folau is...

One thing that has worried me for some time is that AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) is supposedly indestructible, so much so that we have not chosen anyone as the back-up 13. Then I thought maybe Dingo had a road-to-Damascus conversion and that he had finally selected McCabe as AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)'s back-up in a position matching his...

A lot of fantasy players who took the time to nail their strategy down left one or more of their overseas players on the field and took the hit. If you only did that with one player then you have to hope none of your players gets injured during the test period. Non test players will no doubt...

Absolutely class team management! I got 400 and was absolutely ecstatic. You must be over the moon.

2013 will be the "what might have been" year. But for a couple of poor kicks and the odd refereeing disgrace we'd be in the finals already and other teams would be genuinely afraid that we would put on a game like we did against the Crusaders. Yesterdays game against the Force was a great...

I hope AJ Gilbert can get a spot next year. I thought he looked OK up against Alcock, certainly not disgraced.

Savea at 7! I still have nightmares after his game against the Tahs, he was awesome that day. If he plays at 80% of his potential we are in for a veerryy long day.

Herein lies the problem for SA rugby. Its taken the Tahs almost a season to understand how to run the ball back at high pace inside their own half. I would argue (Chieka would too, I think) that they've still got a long way to go. Only the Cheetahs have the faintest notion of what it means...

All I can say is that I am extremely thankful he is not at the Waratahs any more. He is not a head-coach's bootlace. The player (amongst others) that I do feel sorry for is Godwin. Imagine how he would go outside Foley in a Cheika-coached team. Instead he's got Eberson (well what did I do...

So the Force did play their best team on Wednesday?

That's just about the ball game. Alcock will have a field day because we have no on-ball ruck specialist. If the Force don't win this one they'll want to die of shame.

What will be interesting will be to see Mitchell at 15. I expected to see Crawford get this job with Mitchell at 11 but I think Cheika wants another Folau-type player at the back and that he's going to run at the Force as much as the game allows him to. I think he's hoping that Mitchell steps...

A Prop and A Lock will be very interesting. The Force scrum will be pretty good, though every time Tilse has had to step up in situations like this he has never let us down. I expect their locks to really target Skelton and Atkins in the lineout. You'd think that one of these two might need...

Sometimes its better to have a partner who is totally disinterested in Rugby. ;)

My bad. I missed Mathewson - I counted him as a Kiwi. Bullrush has 13 starters next week.

Particularly his field kicking. Everyone says he's hopeless at this, but based on what I've seen this season, if he was playing under a coach who wants field position, his kicking would be rated at better than good.

Trolling!

The SMH article is not definitive. Maybe Foley is going but I don't think its written in stone just yet. If he does go I would be devastated for him - the Rebels outside backs are great defenders but they will not allow him to have the same impact he had at the Tahs this year, they are just...