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Canes were outclassed against the Blues; this was another one of my tipping disasters as I thought the Canes by 4. I really am not sure what to make of this, the Tahs got served up by the Canes last week even though they played a lot of good rugby. Does this make the Blues a 30-40 point better...

I must be the only bloke to pick a Force win tonight and yet I'm still running at 20% success rate for the round. Week to week form is so variable!

Didn't think of that. My philosophy on the hooker spot is to spend big on both starter and bench spots because it is such a key scoring role that you need to have two really good choices. I have Moore and Robinson and will select from them who I think is likely to score more based on...

Moore is starting this week

I had my best score for the year (371) without any props - I might have even cracked 400 had I had two more. But I suspect that a lot of people would have been in that position because: They wanted to hold Afeaki on the bench over the Chiefs bye week. Ben Franks has been right near the top of...

HJ, I think the comments were tongue in cheek, given the comments earlier in the thread.

The Sanzar people now schedule Kaplan to referee the Tahs at least twice in a Super season in the vain hope that just once they will be able to point out a game against the top teams where the Tahs actually won. The only time the Tahs ever win under Kaplan is when the other team is near the...

I don't disagree that the crash ball to the centre can be useful. It becomes totally useless when you do it every time and never try a play like we saw last weekend. I don't remember the Wallabies ever using such a play last year. As I said, it isn't in Deans' rugby imagination.

This comment says much more about Deans' coaching abilities than Timani's playing abilities. When you run a full lineout this opens space for your backs to run havoc. A prime example was the Mitchell try last week. It was a very simple run-around move by Brendan Mckibben (a player unrated by...

Three of the four sides yet to name their teams for the weekend are Australian. The Force (of course), the Brumbies and the Waratahs. Means we are picking in the dark with about 6 hours to go.

There's a simple solution that works for everyone but Cannon. Don't let them commentate on any match involving a team for which they have played. A couple of years ago Kearns teamed with Tony Johnson (NZ) to commentate on a match not involving the Waratahs. The result was respectful...

Greg Martin. Former Australian test fullback. Commentator with Fox Sports. Fanatical Reds supporter. Colour commentator who says the daftest things in commentary. Significantly worse than Murray Mexted.

I could only watch it on television but I had the same great feeling. Finally it seems to be starting to come together. All our tries were from well-constructed attacks, two of their tries were from "lucky" turnovers. The Blues got one well-worked try from what is arguably the best 11-15 in...

The Chiefs away are on the schedule after the bye. That's a game where they will have to improve hugely to be competitive. One week later they've got the Brumbies. Those two games could almost define the Reds season.

Starting to think? Lets call a spade a bloody shovel. All the indications are that he has a massive alcohol problem and has had for some time. It doesn't need to be looked into, it needs to be dealt with.

If the Reds had been playing high quality football I might have agreed with you. But the games I have seen this year (all six of them) have been particularly unimpressive, even though they've been winning. They are on a slight upward incline but as soon as they hit one of the heavyweights...

Yeah, right. Chip kicks in the opponents 22 instead of taking the tackle or looking for an off-load. That was absolutely criminal. A grubber would have been a bit less worse, but not by much. When I saw what he did I was screaming at the TV that Foley should replace him immediately just to...

Tell that to Foley after Ranger creamed him. I was on the phone for an ambulance as soon as I saw it!

"An adequate replacement"? I would think that of the available people he would be at the very top of the list. Adequate just does not do him justice. You'd have to find a successful international-level coach to do better.

Enough with the bragging! :)