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Why not play Cooper off the bench? He will be more of a threat and less of a liability against a tired opposition. Barnes' best quality is his all round game supports a bit of a conservative approach. Try to keep up for 60 minutes and then bring on Cooper to create a few tries in the final 20...

The thing that really screws us is the lack of a local academy (thanks ARU) or a third tier competition (thanks ARU) or more funding for our local competition (thanks ARU). Anything that helps to develop local players. Anything that undermines WA's ability to produce players undermines the...

Well we know that if the Force make an offer to Steve Meehan we will probably end up signing Pieter de Villiers.

If there were 4 Perth "home" games, we could have one against Queensland say in Darwin and one against someone else in Adelaide. The crowd wouldn't be too bad since these two don't get much rugby. Aspiring Super Rugby players in Perth will have to get used to that kind of travel anyway.

The problem with any model that includes clubs is that the clubs will cannibalise their competition. In Sydney for example, players who have Super Rugby aspirations will flock to presumably Sydney Uni, Eastwood and Manly or Randwick. The ARC was the right model. It just needed configuration...

Is he eligible for Ireland on the basis that he looks like a Leprechaun?

Very marginal losses. I think the Reds will have the wood on them at home. You guys play really well at home and the Sharks have a big flight ahead of them after a handful of very physical clashes. The Reds should have won this year but those injuries screwed things up a bit.

We would be better off playing AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) at 13.

Makes you wonder who it is. It surely couldn't be the Brumbies as they have a lot of players who would be relatively cheap. I don't think it would be the Rebels because of salary cap conditions for their marquee players. So it is probably the Force, Tahs or Reds. I doubt it would be the Force...

He was the first choice 10 for the Force in 2006 until he got an injury (neck I think). He fell out of favour in the following years with Matt Giteau mostly at 10. He was ok for the Perth Spirit in the ARC. He was tried a few times in 2008 or 2009 at 12 which didn't really work out. I was really...

I think we will need an experienced lock to replace Sharpe. They should give Ball the EPS slot and take some time to look at options with the main squad.

There was talk that the ARU were pretty desperate to keep him in Australia. Perhaps they see something in him that I don't. If they really want to keep him in Australia, they should give him the role with the U20s. Anything but Nucifora.

The Force will get well and truly flogged in Christchurch. The Lions will get well and truly flogged by the Bulls. They just have too much to lose by not showing up. The only conceivable situation where the score line might not reflect this is if either the Crusaders or Bulls coaches roll out...

Only by suppository. So it's a bit like watching Australia lose to England in a test.

Probably the Force will make a straight swap for Sidey.

I did, and it wasn't bloody easy at times. I missed the second game against the French though. I don't think you can blame Godwin for the U20s. Nucifora should have selected a different goal kicker. Nucifora should have selected UJS in the Argentina game as he has a far better all round...

Mafi should stay on the wing or be tried at inside centre. Tupou has been good before but he did bugger all today. Put Cummins back to outside centre. Godwin to fullback or Seymour to fullback and Godwin to fly-half. I didn't think the Force performance was that bad. Especially when we had a...

The Force had more supporters when they started than the Rebels do when they did. A lot more. See how many supporters you have in 5 years. Don't know how the media coverage issue compares but I fail to see the point of it.

That's not a good idea. WJ must surely be suffering from RSI in that general area.

Name one reason.