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Well I don’t know that I’ll tell you anything you don’t know, but he highlighted - - they had significant squad turnover - they were unable to secure a trial until right at the end - part of their squad joined them very late - they were forced to leave Melbourne on two hours notice. Some if...

Fair enough. Agree it certainly wasn’t a shocker from the Ref. More a 50/50 - but personally I did think Hardwick died enough to get the call. But that’s the nature of those calls I guess - you win some, you lose some.

On a side note - did anyone else think Hardwick was unlucky not to win the penalty on that last play. He seemed to be on his feet with hands on the ball long enough to have got the call, IMO. But I haven’t seen any comments for Rebels fans, so I assume I’m alone on this. Is the general...

You scored 21 last night and got beaten after the bell by a kick that young Lonergan will probably remember for the rest of his life. I haven’t listened to last nights presser yet, but last week Wessels was pretty specific on the reasons that the Rebels were playing the way they were and it has...

I thought that game was very enjoyable to watch. Surprised by the level of negativity

You can take the boy out of the Crusaders system....... :)

Well - I was cheering for the Rebels, but for the second week I enjoyed watching an Aussie kicker - actually two Aussie kickers - putting on such a quality display. Congrats Brumbies. It wasn’t pretty at times, but a win is a win. Commiserations Rebels fans. I feel for you.

Personally, while I think Tizzano has been great, I don’t see any evidence he is a better player, or even at a similiar level at the moment, or that it is a forgone conclusion he will be. McReight didn’t get his test cap by fluke. But it’s early days for both of them. Time will tell. In the...

Maybe we should just play both. Should work.

Maybe. And I get it in the sense that as a fan you’d like your team to have the best player 1 - 15. But I’m not convinced he’ll be better than McReight and if he is it’ll probably be nominal. I kinda feel like we should back the guy we’ve got.

Why would we want Tizzano?

According to Penney in the press conference - yes. But he was given a better offer by the Force.

I think you’re being kind. It may have been innocuous, but it was still deliberate and dumb. Anyway - it is what it is, and it would be churlish of me to focus on that incident and not acknowledge how great it was for the Force to get the win. Looking forward to see them look to back it up at...

On a seperate note, I have to say it is a shame to see Ready continue to waste his talent. Part of me wants to see him banished from the game squad for being a dick - but really I’d much rather someone get through to him that he is really wasting his potential. Hopefully Sampson gets through...

Agree - but just as importantly it’ll improve the quality of our super teams across the board. In the short term we need to get to a point where we can field 5 quality sides without reliance on imports (or maybe 1 marquee import). As we go in the ideal would be to grow the number of teams...

Nice summary Dan. It seems to me that the Force strategy is to buy some top up talent to give the development pathways the 2-3 seasons it needs to bare fruit. That seems a pretty reasonable plan to me but I’d guess they had a limited number of guys who they were able to hook for one reason or...

I dunno - is he that much different to Daugunu was in his first year. I don’t completely disagree with the gist of your point. In an ideal world he’d be developing by playing bit roles off the bench and Shute Shield, but in the absence of other options he seems good enough to me to be a squad...

And considering his centre’s were giving him nothing, I thought that made his performance even better. Great to see all the 10s showing some goal kicking form too. It’s been a long time since we’ve had consistently reliable kickers across all our teams.

I don’t think anyone has a problem with their nationality - other than it highlights the problem we are having keeping our best locks. We have a problem because they haven’t been up to standards.

Hard to make dominant hits when you are on the back foot to be fair. But I agree with your general point. If the Tahs were to be any chance their back & front rows had to dominate their opposites. They didn’t and, in fact, it was the opposite. I do think the ref was a bit generous to the...