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I thought he played in the Under 20 world cup at 12, though I may be wrong on this.

Given how bad Cooper's defence was, and its not all that much better now, I think this is a massive over-exaggeration. Volavola is very young and he just needs to grow into the role with good coaching and develop physically a bit more. But what was clear this week is that right now he is much...

Volavola was not the only Australian back to miss putting a kick into touch this weekend. I seem to remember at least one in the very next game, and there was at least one in the Force - Bulls game I saw a bit of. Australian backs do not kick well in general play and we certainly do not have...

Foley is really becoming a pain in the neck! If Cowan doesn't play, with Alexander on the bench, I will only have one scoring prop this week, Robinson. At least he should get 50-60 minutes against a weak scrum.

He's playing for a contract this year, its now or never and he knows it.

Sita now off the bench for Peterson. Anyone know the nature of his injury?

Given how bad that stuff tastes you might have trouble getting him to drink it!

Its going to be wet and the Tahs have picked all their big boppa forwards again this week. I think a modification of the "fling it wide" strategy is called for to include more pick and drives this week. We've got the cattle to do it and the Rebels visibly tired last week. A combination of the...

Apologies if this has been raised before but I've just seen the missed tackle stats for the comp so far. Four teams have played two games the rest one game so the numbers are distorted but... four of the top five for missed tackles are Rebel players. Beale, Kingi, Inman and Sidey are in the...

When the game got to 17-17 I thought that the above prediction was going the way of my tipping (so far absolutely attrocious) but it turned out to be pretty accurate. The key issues were defense (missed tackles) and dropped ball. They will be 100% better next week for the hitout. On what...

Genia might be back in four more weeks but there is virtually zero chance he will be at 100% after a full knee reconstruction. It takes time, I would guess at least two months, before he's back to his best. So Lucas and/or Frisby are going to have to do a lot of work while Genia gets his form...

Shows how much I know.... My tipping performance this year has not been good.

Cadeyrn Neville has a big engine and I thought the Rebels ran out of puff against the Brumbies last night.

I didn't think Leckie covered himself in glory. In the first half the Brumbies committed a long series of of breakdown fouls, some of which were certainly cynical. All they got was a warning. In the second half Saffy commits a "cynical foul" and gets a yellow card. The first thing a referee...

Some of the skills on show have been absolutely sublime. I would love to see the Aussie teams playing with the same verve and combination.

The three key matches, Highlanders vs Chiefs, Bulls vs Stormers and Waratahs vs Reds, have been allocated three very good refs - Walsh, Peyper and Pollock respectively. All three are likely to be ferocious, especially at the breakdown, and an experienced, accurate referee should be able to keep...

Goosen averaged 38 ppg and Lealiifano 34 ppg last year. Cruden averaged just under 30 ppg. Godwin sounds like a great bench back-up but his kicking accuracy is awful.

I've looked everywhere I can think of and there is no sign of a team announcement. No idea why Foley is playing silly-buggers. Just two hours to go till Fantasy lockdown and I still don't know if Cottrell, Charles and Mafi will start. Having had a poor start to the season (thanks Higgers) I...

Topo, You are either psychic or have great sources!

Its a 5:2 bench, but if one of our outside backs go down then it will require massive rearrangements with the backline. I don't see Volavola as a wing or outside centre.