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If you choose the first strategy you will run into two problems: Late injury withdrawals among your starting 15 can leave you caught short if your transfers for that week are exhausted. Not so much a problem this year because there are no consecutive weeks with three byes, but you can run into...

Jeremy Tilse to start is a real surprise, particularly as it means Ryan will drop out of the 22. I suspect that he will get half a game and then Robinson will come on, Perhaps he will do the last 15 mins as THP so that Kepu can go flat out for the first 65 mins (the Al Baxter strategy, first...

I'm picking the Stormers to top the table completely but if they are 0 from 2 I reserve the right to change my mind. Looking at the team lists its hard to find five match-ups where the Bulls have the edge. I reckon the Bulls, with no backline attack to speak of except Steyn's kick and hope...

Mods: This thread heading says Tahs vs Rebels is round 4. My schedule says this game is round 3. Apologies but I am a convicted pedant.

While a lot of Tah fans are expecting a win I think that's highly unlikely. Why? This is the first game the Waratahs will be playing under a totally different game plan to what they are used to. The bulk of the Wallaby pack are used to playing with no game plan at all. Most of the team to be...

And then I noticed the column was written by Greg Growden.......

Even with the injuries, that is a mighty impressive run on side and Joe Petersen can't get a start either.

Before I moved to SA I had tickets in 36CC and they, plus a few rows in front of me were covered.

Writing any team off after the first game is just crazy. To give a Tah illustration: the year that Link got ditched (around the fifth round I think) they then went on to lose the final to the Crusaders on the back of Kurtley's injury, when he was absolutely carving it up. They played great rugby...

If Foley and Barnes are both out I reckon it will still be advantage QLD.

Waratahs have just had their first bye and the SMH still has them on zero points. Looks to me like there is a lot of confusion.

Man, I had forgotten how tough a league this was!! I am in the top 25% of the total league and in the bottom 25% of the G&GR league. Still, next week I get to put some Kiwi's and Saffers in my team too, and some mighty Tahs. Higgers is definitely a goner! - never to return. Where is Adam...

Had Higgers in my team and Cottrell on the bench. 31 point turn-around! Shipperly had better play well, I swapped him in for Mafi! Having my usual early-season blues!

As a Tah supporter I saw plenty of SKN. I was stoked to get him off the Brumbies but he turned out to be the lemon of the year. If any Force supporter thinks he is starting material then you must be very unhappy with the rest of your squad.

Welcome to coach Michael Foley and very conservative team selection!

Whoever has done the work for Fox this year has done an awful job! They have absolutely no idea of who plays where. Its like they are people who usually work on mungo and just got drafted in to fill a gap. I've noticed: Nathan Trist is in the outside backs but he's not in the Tahs squad...

Who will take the place kicks for the Brumbies?

15. Israel Folau (Unattached) 14. Lachie Turner (Eastwood) 13. Adam Ashley-Cooper (Northern Suburbs) 12. Tom Carter (Sydney University) 11. Tom Kingston (Sydney University) 10. Ben Volavola (Southern Districts) 9. Grayson Hart (Southern Districts) 8. Wycliff Palu (Manly) 7. David Hickey (Sydney...

Can I recommend one of the finest international coaches God ever put breath into. Taught two of rugby's greatest ever players how to play, numerous Super trophies, gets teams to play what's in front of them, very basic gameplan so you don't have to train too hard, and certainly a better...

I agree. 4 wins plus the bye will have them top 4 to start round 7. That would be a huge start to the season!