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I think they’re just spreading it around so Brisbane don’t get all the fun, and preserving Suncorp for the NRL. The 100th test between SAF and ABs is in Townsville

I’m assuming they were ticketed separately. Maybe a lot of Aussies on the Gold Coast didn’t want to pay to watch Kiwis play Argentinians? I’d do both, but I’m pretty die hard. Plus there’s an NRL final in progress.

I think that's because the Japan players are off season at the moment and back in Oz. European players can only be released during the NH test windows and if they came back would need to do the 2 weeks quarantine.

The thing about him though is he is reliable as a placeholder in the Wallabies. The other players regarded as placeholders eg Banks have been awful and make a net negative contribution at test level.

If you're going to ask that question you also need to ask the same one referencing Noah Lolesio, Tom Banks and Len Ikitau.

The very least the ABs can do is make a tunnel for us to run out through.

Yes, I kind of had similar thoughts myself, that was written before yesterday's presser BTW. Politics would dictate that if there is a lockdown it will be after all the sport has finished tonight and be lifted in time for next weekend's fixtures - 'be seen to be doing the right thing'.

I'm not sure of the point you are trying to make but it reads as though you think that the players who have started the tests are entitled to stay there there because they were selected to start. I don't think anyone is rewriting history, we're all focusing on the now, which is pretty shit...

My read on it is there is no cap on the number in either the squad or the match day 23, but that it will be used selectively. so yes, it’s pretty grey.

As a variation of that, assuming all the franchises are affiliated with feeder clubs, have matches featuring one or more of those clubs as the curtain raiser. That would bring in the club crowds. E.g. say one of the franchises is Northern Sydney (using the Parra river as the boundary) then the...

Awesome, put one of them at 8 and the other one at fullback.

They had that silly selection panel thing with Michael O’Connor and Johnson, but that seemed to disappear with Cheika. I’m actually not sure what Johnson’s job is these days, he seems to get paid 3/4 of a bar to do fuck all but that’s for another thread.

Yeah, I can see Thorn going for the gig later but he'll want complete autonomy.

Sounding a lot like this game will be without crowds. Surely RA got some assurances from the Qld govt when they moved the tournament there, but Anna is Anna. Hopefully they’ll just have the sense to have some localised lockdowns.

I sense that the forwards coach is having a bigger influence than just coaching the forwards.

:D. Mods, need to add that laughing emoji with tears

We aren't a hope in hell for the 2023 model, but we will be for the 2027 one, as long as we can keep our players. I think we should be doing a bit of both - earmarking the players we want for 2027 and keep them in the system, giving them suitable opportunities as they arise but not throwing...

EOYT? I like it.

I saw that the other day. RA identified that we aren’t playing enough pro games a few months ago, I’m hopeful that they’re working on it via a domestic pro comp.