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I'm not. Half the squad are winger/fullbacks and we have a severe dearth of inside backs and flankers. Piukala amd Hingano are inside backs.

I know this is all the rage now but once upon a time you had the big fast guy at 13 and the smaller guy at 12. I am not sure the game has changed that much since Horan and Herbert/Morty were our first choice pair. I do not understand why McCabe is promoted as a 12 when his skill set is far...

Not all Waratah fans live in Sydney. For my sins I got sent to Adelaide! And once I think I was the only Waratah supporter in the old Highlanders stadium wearing Waratahs gear apart from team officials. That was the famous game when Jimmy Cowan tried to do a Loe act on Cliffy Palu that meant...

So my favourite referee, Mark Lawrence, has finally had to hand in his card. Sorry to see him go.

From an Australian viewpoint the best match for him is Douglas, given that Douglas is a THL who moves to LHL when Timani plays. Timani/Horwill and Timani/Douglas are our best match, but you would have to have a jumper like Dennis or Higgers at 6. As this is a Tahs thread......, his loss would...

Qwerty, I am capable of remaining calm in the face of a firestorm but your post has me teetering on the edge! Have you any more info on the nature of those injuries? If they are major and not just minor aches and pains, then: We are in very deep do-do. AJ Gilbert is likely to get his second...

Taking it position by position you would, I think, have McCaw, Read, Kaino, Thorne and Franks in front of their counterparts. The weaknesses (comparative weaknesses, not real ones) in the current pack are the locks without Thorne and hooker.

But he doesn't look like he's carrying 135kg. If I had 135kg on me I'd be wearing 5XL shirts and a 120 cm belt. He looks like he's just all lean muscle mass. If it is lean muscle mass then he should (note selection of the word) be very strong and very explosive. But Lee is right. He needs...

135kg? You mean I could put on another 35 kg and still look that good? Amazing! If he can be taught rugby skills to match his physique he will be awesome. Timani would be the same height and 14kg lighter!

My read on it is that the rusted-on supporters, like those who post on here, the Roar, SMH and Fox are strongly anti-Deans. I haven't done a post-by-post summation, but the vibe is that whereas it was 50-50 pre World Cup it is now strongly anti, with few posters anywhere posting strong...

AUSTRALIAN RUGBY UNION chairman Michael Hawker insists there is no added pressure on Wallabies coach Robbie Deans heading into the final year of his contract, admitting the ARU was ''happy'' with how his side was travelling. Read more...

The silly season is upon us. Where is the fast-forward-to-February button when you need it?

So, Folau is going to be tried at fullback first. That could be either a masterstroke or a disaster and we won't know till we try. Lets look on the bright side - sort of in the Bob Dwyer selection of Phil Kearns category. Even Phil thought he would only get one test yet it turned out to be a...

Genia won't be back till well into the Super comp and then will have a long period where he will need a very light load. As I understand it, its a full knee recon and players take a long time to get back to their peak after one. Ben Robinson, although a prop, has only been a shadow of his old...

Lindommer, I absolutely agree with everything you said. But who are we going to rotate Dennis with? And is Barnes the only possible player to rotate with Foley? If St Catastrophe strikes big Dave we are totally and utterly stuffed.

The problem with this, which I agree with as a general assertion, is the massive over-representation of wingers in the squad. As Qwerty has posted, leaving out Hodge and Crawford... So we have: Folau: Our marquee player, the one who will lead the advertising push. He'll have to get some...

All the debate on whether Israel Folau can or can't play in the backline avoids the real issue. We have only one real 6 and a couple of "maybe at a pinch" players. Dennis has had a very long season and has trained and played most internationals. He's not going to get a huge break before he has...

Could you please clarify which game was supposed to be OK. I haven't seen him play a test where I would rate him > 4/10.

I hate dirty, illegal play and if Simmons got eight weeks then Hore should go for plenty. But I don't think this incident rates with the Richard Loe incident. Its more in the nature of a Colin Meads moment.I don't think that Hore deliberately set out to coat-hanger the bloke, any more than I...

I might even agree with you but those around the Greenwich longitude do not seem to think its all that obvious or logical.