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He also needs to make more tackles than Quade.

I doubt that the IRB will require a doctors certificate if a team withdraws a player from the tournament. If they do, then I'm sure the ARU will be able to provide one, otherwise they wouldn't be withdrawing him. I don't see how it is abuse anyway: a team should be able select a player who...

We can swap him out if he isn't fit, but we can't swap him in if he is, therefore we should name him in the squad.

Nevertheless, a players win ratio against another team has almost nothing to say about their quality as a player. Some of the best players in the world play in teams that lose most of the time. I'd take Martin Castrogiovanni over Matt Dunning, even though Dunning's win ratio against Italy is...

I doubt McCabe will be cited. It was certainly a yellow card offence but a red is stretching it I think. Edit: oops, events preceded me.

Reading these kinds of posts reminds me of Link's description of posters on this forum as 'know it alls'.

One thing to remember is that for the Wallabies this is early in the season. Usually we'll just be starting the Tri-Nations now. We are notoriously slow starters. I expect to see considerable improvement.

Because he's much better.

I can't recall many shockers from Palu, and certainly never for the Wallabies. Nor can I ever remember him being knocked back in contact unless outnumbered.

3 Horwill 2 Moore 1 Elsom

Hmmm... probably the first thing he's passed in a couple of seasons.

Are you saying the 8 plays a distributor role? That would be unusual in Australian rugby. Aussie 8s have typically been big, ball running units making hard yards in the tight. The 6 plays more of a distributor role. The Kiwis tend to play the reverse.

Maybe we need some bigger blokes. If Tuqiri and Sailor were playing now we might have a better use for them. Sailor would make a great blockbusting 12 in the modern game.

He's not as famous.

Amen to that.

I'm a fan too. If people disagree with my assessment, then by definition I consider them to be wrong. :) But more seriously, I'm not doing a Matt Burke and saying fans don't know anything. I'm merely proposing some limits on what we can see. Impact in the tight is notoriously hard to spot...

If I ask nicely do you think they'll make one for me as well?

With the right equipment, his local gravity field can be used to prove general relativity.

My point exactly. In the same games he's usually in the players' top three. It's like Thomond's analysis of the scrums. What fans think goes on, and what actually goes on, are often very different things.

I don't think being on message is the most important thing now. A genuinely fit Horne is as important as TPN.