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The Highlanders' plan is to try and win their second game of the season by playing their B team against a side that likes punishing opponents for lack of respect. Force by 5.

Highlanders 1 Tony Woodcock 2 Liam Coltman 3 Ma'afu Fia 4 Brad Thorn (c) 5 Josh Bekhuis 6 TJ Ioane 7 John Hardie 8 Mose Tuiali'i 9 Aaron Smith 10 Hayden Parker 11 Hosea Gear 12 Ma'a Nonu 13 Tamati Ellison 14 Jason Emery 15 Ben Smith 16 Andrew Hore 17 Bronson Murray 18 Joe Wheeler 19 Elliot...

HELL YEAH!

They should just get Waratah Jesus to take over :P

The Bulls have confirmed that prop Frik Kirsten, and not Werner Kruger, would start against the Sharks in their Super Rugby match in Durban on Saturday. A final call on the fitness of Louis Fouche and Jan Serfontein would be made at the team's captains run in Durban on Friday...

Horwill is a brilliant leader, but I completely agree about not being a great captain. Honestly, the Reds are lacking in that department. Slipper is a decent captain but his game drops like crazy when he takes that role, even worse than Benn Robinson. Genia just doesn't inspire the forwards...

Best example of scripting is Sean Maloney and Rod Kafer's segments. Of course Nick sounds scripted but that would just be because he's the host and needs to put some order to the show. Honestly I think there would be two or three rehearsals beforehand, especially with interviews. You don't...

George lewisr I've mentioned earlier that he doesn't work well with a script, but when it is on the fly he shows how much he knows. For example...

Sharks 1 Tendai Mtawarira 2 Kyle Cooper 3 Jannie du Plessis 4 Pieter-Steph du Toit 5 Franco van der Merwe 6 Marcell Coetzee 7 Willem Alberts 8 Keegan Daniel (c) 9 Charl McLeod 10 Patrick Lambie 11 Lwazi Mvovo 12 Meyer Bosman 13 Piet Lindeque 14 Odwa Ndungane 15 Riaan Viljoen 16 Monde Hadebe...

Owen Franks has been ruled out due to injury. Replacing him is Nepo Laulala.

Blues 1 Tim Perry 2 Keven Mealamu 3 Angus Ta'avao 4 Cullum Retallick 5 Ali Williams (c) 6 Brendon O'Connor 7 Luke Braid 8 Peter Saili 9 Piri Weepu 10 Chris Noakes 11 George Moala 12 Francis Saili 13 Rene Ranger 14 Frank Halai 15 Charles Piutau 16 Quentin MacDonald 17 Ofa Tu'ungafasi 18...

Brumbies 1 Scott Sio 2 Stephen Moore 3 Ben Alexander 4 Scott Fardy 5 Sam Carter 6 Peter Kimlin 7 Colby Fainga'a 8 Ben Mowen (c) 9 Nic White 10 Matt To'omua 11 Joe Tomane 12 Christian Lealiifano 13 Tevita Kuridrani 14 Henry Speight 15 Jesse Mogg 16 Siliva Siliva 17 Ruan Smith 18 Fotu Auelua 19...

If Beale and JOC (James O'Connor) are lost, then a backline of Stirzaker Hegarty Sitauti Sidey Inman English Woodward Is a good backline and behind a strong pack I would expect 1/3 games to be victories, at least.

I like Sidey at 12, he just needs time with a consistent fly half.

Predicted backline under Deans: 9. Tomane 10. AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) 11. Barnes 12. Genia 13. Ioane 14. Lealiifano 15. Horne But seriously, Deans is no idiot. I'd be expecting Tomane to start with Cummins to bring that enthusiasm for the last 20 seconds minutes.

Stormers 1 Steven Kitshoff 2 Tiaan Liebenberg 3 Brok Harris 4 Gerbrandt Grobler 5 Eben Etzebeth 6 Siya Kolisi 7 Don Armand 8 Nizaam Carr 9 Louis Schreuder 10 Elton Jantjies 11 Bryan Habana 12 Damian de Allende 13 Jean de Villiers (c) 14 Gio Aplon 15 Joe Pietersen 16 Martin bezuidenhout 17...

Cheetahs 1 Coenie Oosthuizen 2 Adriaan Strauss (c) 3 Lourens Adriaanse 4 Lodewyk de Jager 5 Francois Uys 6 Heinrich Brussow 7 Pieter Labuschagne 8 Phillip van der Walt 9 Piet van Zyl 10 Elgar Watts 11 Willie le Roux 12 Robert Ebersohn 13 Johan Sadie 14 Ryno Benjamin 15 Hennie Daniller 16...

Bulls 1 Dean Greyling 2 Chiliboy Ralepelle 3 Werner Kruger 4 Flip van der Merwe 5 Juandre Kruger 6 Deon Stegmann 7 Dewald Potgieter 8 Pierre Spies (c) 9 Francois Hougaard 10 Morne Steyn 11 Bjorn Basson 12 Wynand Oliver 13 JJ Engelbrecht 14 Akona Ndungane 15 Jurgen Visser 16 Willie Wepener 17...

Everyone on here wants Quade to develop into a Carlos Spencer cross Stephen Larkham who can match Dan Carter at his best, but they're split 90/10 on whether or not he should be doing that at test level.

Rassie You're forgetting the non-union mexican equivalents!