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Is it time to bring another on the ball back rower into the squad? The Wallabies are a far superior beast with someone who is strong over the ball.

Now that our set piece has improved we have the organization to get over the top of them most of the time. Cheika will have a pretty definite style of game that we need to play. However, they have looked to be playing wider in this RWC and are very quick to counter. We will need to keep an eye...

Seems as though there are teams(ranked below us) that the Wallabies struggle with historically. The Scots are an obvious one and Ireland as well. Previously we have had issues against Italy and Argentina because of their forward strength compared to ours. In the last 6 months we have shown this...

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Scotty Sio would have learned a lot from the quarter final. He was unable to channel his brute strength due to Nel playing a great game. Hope he's right and better for the experience. Mind you the Puma scrum was not that great in an otherwise exceptional performance in their win. That was our...

3. Beale 2. Kuridrani 1. Fardy

It was a quarter final for the ages and no-one can deny that the Scots turned up in a big way. Here we are looking at a semi next week and they are out. It could easily have been very different. It's the game we love and why we are all so eager to watch every single test. Most likely the...

Sio got penalized 2 or 3 times when The Scottish TH dropped his bind, including on one occasion in the last 5 minutes within kicking distance.

I don't think so Highlander35. The Frogs were disorganised and the darkness hit their straps today in patches. Nothing to see there. The rugby tomorrow will be more in line with what we saw from SA and Wales.

I don't know about others but I'd like to see Wales, France and Argentina win the other QFs.

I'm a bit nervous about this one. They are going in with two opensides, obviously to counter what they thought was going to be the Pooper. CheIka you sly dog. We need to take it to them at the breakdown and establish dominance early.

I think we can safely shelve the Speight for 13 plan. AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) is the back up. We probably could have easily brought another centre instead of one of the wingers. I guess no-one really put their hand up. Kerevi maybe?

Foley, Mitchell and Quade can all cover 15 along with AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper). Beale on the wing last week was OK and Quade could do something similar. They key for us this week is to take it to them up front from the opening whistle and try and break them early in the set piece and at the breakdown. We don't...

OK. I was thinking it was Richie.

Why are they still listing Richie Gray? Or is that J Gray...whoever that is?

It would be nice to see some other skills in the next couple of weeks, along with the excellent scrum work continued of course.

Better for the Reds right now. They are in a rebuilding phase and they need solid leaders and role models to make it happen. Good luck to him in France. Hope his issues are not serious.

Just listened to the Podcast and there was some talk about our inability to take the high ball. Yes Izzy was under the cosh with his ankle and the "blockers" coming through but what about Will Genia? He has always been one of our best under the high kicks. In one instant he decided to block for...

Maybe we should just let the the powers that be worry about borderline calls for a citing eh? The first I heard of the incicident was here..... over and over and over. Then 24 hrs later it appears on FS and some NZ media. Best just to let it be. Once it breaks on social media the citing...

Thats good. Beale has been sensational coming of the bench. He really changes up the point of attack and makes thing happen.