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So are you trying to say that Gill isn't a good 7s player even though he was a staple in the team and one of the standouts at the age of 17? Breakdowns are unbelievably important in 7s. Nearly every team has a player whose primary role is to contest the breakdown on defense or clear it out...

Should make it easier to hear when they start working their chiropractic magic on the Scots and Italians then :D

This generation of Samoan footballers playing on dry ground against Scotland and Italy should be quite entertaining.

Their near sole reliance on home-grown talent has seen them fall in competitiveness. The Blues have a decent coach now and suddenly the Crusaders don't look nearly as dominant as they did before. The decline was masked last year by the other franchises (outside of the Chiefs) not playing well...

The Crusaders who have slipped from being the dominant NZ franchise to playing 2nd fiddle to the Chiefs and who are going to be fighting tooth and nail for a Wildcard spot against a Blues team that won 4 games last year? Thanks for proving my point? Not to mention Union being the dominant...

I don't hate him but we have been distinctly lacking a level of dynamism in the backs this year that we will need if we want a shot at the title. Replacing an average ball player at 15 with another average ball player at 15 is not going to help fix this in any way. I don't get the near...

thierry dusautoir One clip from a hugely lopsided game doesn't magically remove the times Harris got burnt for pace last year or give us a viable attacking option at 15 who can join the line at pace. He also has a weak pass off his left side. Not okay if he's supposed to be the secondary...

We don't need an open side though. An athletic, fast(er) 6/8 with line out ability? One of those we could definitely use.

Harris better not come back into the side. We are having enough issues with execution on attack and do not need to replace a slow 15 with another slow 15. Digby alone leaving opens up a huge amount of contract space. JOC (James O'Connor) would be a good replacement now that he's added some bull. His stepping...

K Ried coming back didn't exactly hurt either. Dan had a forgettable game by his standards last week.

JOC (James O'Connor) can tackle big guys. Everyone already forget when he lifted and dumped Matfield when he was 17/18 and much smaller than he is now? His build and low COG makes him very good at tackling guys bigger than him, actually. The Ranger incident was a bit of an anomaly. He explained why he went in...

He's tied for 3rd on try assists. With JOC (James O'Connor).

Quade punched out his captain? Must have missed that one. Seriously, if we're comparing assaulting a teammate with saying Wallabies camp was toxic and calling the jersey yellow..

He 'can'. A lot of Digby's line bending comes from his ability to step through traffic. He's a lot more than pure power. If you catch the field-level clips of Digby when they play them his step is unbelievably fast. I'm serious it's the quickest sidestep I have ever seen on film from just...

I'd be willing to wager that Cheika uses Horne just as, if not more often than Timani/Palu when he wants to punch over the gain line from the 1st phase off of set pieces. This is a testament to how well he has been playing this year for the 'Tahs. He's not a second play maker but has been...

Sergeal Peterson is out for the U-20 Boks with a hamstring injury. I have a bad feeling about how the USA U-20s will fare playing the 'big boys' this year. A couple of the stars from last year are now unavailable due to age and a loss to Canada in the warm-up match does not bode well...

Skelton has been quite destructive at the breakdown. Waratahs are going to need it to have a hope. The Crusaders are one of the strongest teams in all of Super Rugby when it comes to attacking the breakdown. No room for Timani to be doing the dead fish act.

wamberal It's all about talent retention. It's a professional market now and you can't expect to retain top-level talent when you are paying them less than some Super Rugby rookies are making.

In the case of Berrick (since it was an ongoing thing) there's a chance they may have sought medical attention outside of the camp, I'm not sure though. Kane was assessed by team doctors on the sideline I believe. There is supposed to be an independent medical professional present but the team...

SevensPhD Sorry, I did mean to say college nat'l champs. Pretty silly typo considering I'm likely going to be playing for Schuylkill River in the fall. Outside of Life you have a ton of talent in that area. No other regions are regularly playing (and beating) the Carribean National squads...