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He's been doing way more than that. He has been playing above the level of Carter and Douglas is a bit of an unknown. Horwills last few games have been remarkable considering the tripe he rolled out for the Reds this year. He is a certainty. If it was my selection I would think that Carter...

The last two games have shown that we have serious lineout issues. They may be lessened slightly with the return of Simmons but having only 2-3 legitimate options will be a problem against sides with a decent set piece. I think Higgers will slip into the squad because of this and because of...

It was exactly the reason why Cheika played Skelton for 80 minutes all year at the Tahs claiming he couldn't justify his selection at test level if he couldn't go the full 80. He went a different route for Palu.

I think he went OK initially. You can see by those ruck involvement stats that he drop off pretty heavily after the first 10 minutes. He failed to physically impose himself, as most of the big boys did. Cheika has been managing him very carefully which would indicate that he will go. This will...

How did Douglas look? I missed the last 20 minutes.

It's pissing down now but scheduled to be pretty dry during the game with winds around 10 knots and a temp of 11 degrees C. Not bad conditions but it will be greasy and heavy under foot.

I just don't think he fits into the new Wallaby mould. His defense is crap and he is prone to hot headed plays that can backfire.

Pooper and Coomua :)

I really don't see the need for him here. It's going to be a tough war of attrition. Not really his thing. I would have thought Drew Mitchell or Phipps would have been better.

He is challenging his squad to dominate in a different way this week, a way in which we will be able to take England head on. Our boys have their tails up and a good attitude. I would guess that we will probably go down by 6 in a very tough match.

I'm guessing he's pretty fit considering he has been selected to play a Bled cup game in two days.

If Quade gets some decent front foot ball he will certainly bring Kurindrani into he game more.

That's the thing. He is without question the best field kicker in our squad. Foley was kicking directly down the AIGs throats last week. Its and To'omua were better. If we are going to play a little 10 man stuff then Quade is your man.

maybe before if we are loosing the breakdown battle

Its the Bled, and its up for grabs. Cheika needs to put out the side with the best possible chance of winning it. It doesn't get any bigger than this!........ever

But he also stopped several other promising movements where NZ had overlaps by doing the same. To'omua does it sometimes too. Ditto Hooper.

Looks like McAWE has slid up to the front row to give them a hand. It's not as though he is on the blind side from the ref either. Did he get pinged?

Onside but grabbing Pocock around the noggin. Didn't they just have a refs pow wow about that a couple of months back? He does it a lot. Isn't that supposed to be a penalty or worse?

Any criticism of Kuridrani is way off in my opinion. He was solid, fronted in defense and also hit a lot of rucks in the mid field giving us ascendancy before the big boys arrived. His problem was that he was coming from so deep that he was a marked man as soon as he got the ball. This freed up...

Giteau was serviceable at halfback for those 10 minutes and it meant that we didn't need to sub him or a winger or a loose forward in order to bring on our reserve half. It makes sense but he should never be in the 23 as a halfback. Our lineout was poor and it is normally an area where we can...