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This constant, destructive negativity produces nothing but despair and depression. Sure the Tahs played badly last week, but the Brumbies are a very good side and would have done the same to at least half the other teams. The team will be hurting big-time. Kicking them aimlessly provides no...

Usually the disaster note is to hear that someone has done his ACL. But running a close second is that kiss-of-death "ankle injury". When someone gets this affliction the word is immediately out that they'll only miss a week. As soon as I hear that I put down six weeks out and I am always...

Any player scoring two tries and only 29 is probably a liability. The G&GR champion from a couple of years ago had a system where he downloaded player scores and deleted the points for tries to better evaluate player performances against each other. I don't have the computer skills to do it...

Well, that's round 5 done and I barely scraped 300 (again). Wildcard I think this week, bugger the consequences later. But there have been some real difficulties for players using last year's data to predict performance this year: Afeaki (only played two and a bit games last year) now...

Making decisions in anger rarely achieves the optimum result. While Cheika often gets angry, I sense he won't choose his team based on that. He'll be weighing up where he wants to go and who will get him there. But that's the joy of being a fan. You can have a major disappointment, get mad...

We lost badly last night, but I don't think many knowledgeable fans expected the Tahs to win this. In Canberra, with the full squad available for selection except McCabe and Ita Vaea with George Smith as the perfect replacement, Brumbies fresh after the bye was always a bridge too far. The...

Maybe that's what got him a starting spot. I just hope he really fires up this week, he has been very quiet so far.

I am looking forward to the scrum battle - in particular Palmer vs Robinson. Australia's best scrummaging LHP vs best scrummaging THP. If Timani plays LHL then I think its advantage Tahs, if he doesn't then its pretty even.

Slim, Did you mean Phipps (bolded). Otherwise I don't understand your comment. White might have been on the bench for the Wales games but he did not get one minute of game time, if I recall correctly. Deans is definitely not a White fan.

To open up an old wound... White delayed surgery last year when he was clearly the second best quality 9 we had. Deans then selected Phipps over him for the bench, so White went ahead and had surgery. Then Genia did his knee and we had to put up with Phipps appalling passing because Deans is...

Fuglistaller is essentially what you would describe as a bench-quality seven.

Zacker is the exception to the rule. The passing improves noticeably when he comes on.

After putting in hours of work trying to get the stars to align with my team sheet, I managed to get just two dream-teamers last week. Next week I think a team list and a dartboard are in order. One thing I do know. Goosen, my soon to be ex-captain, is not a shadow of the player he was last...

I doubt you will be given the opportunity.

Astute and management are two words that should not be used in the same sentence when referring to the Tahs back office.

Is there a link to this information that I have missed?

The turnover next year might be huge or it might not. That will depend on how the season goes and whether the players buy into the "new" way of playing. If the season goes badly then there will be big turnover; if the season goes well players are likely to want to stay around to have a crack...

I wonder, given Palu is out, whether we should play Sita at 8 and tell him to go nuts for 50, then bringing on Lopeti to finish. Sita could pack at THL for the scrums with Chapman at 8, which should give us an advantage even though Palmer is at THP. We've got Chapman, Dennis and Douglas to jump...

Was I dreaming or did Saia get penalised in the Reds/Canes match for "no arms" in a diving tackle?

I agree that Barnes should come back from the bench. McKibben's kicking style does not look good but he only missed one from five, so we don't need a kicker. Barnes' knee looked poor just a week back, I think a gradual introduction is the way to go. Mitchell did some good things and some bad...