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Harris and Toua have played 13 for the Reds before.Harris was mediocre, Toua was bad. As @Brumby Runner said, Turner has played 13 in the Shute Shield, but I don't think it's his best position. The only real option was Taps or Ant, but I think that Ant really needs to be playing club football...

Would've thought it better to bring Madness off the bench with Stander running on allowing, say, Alcock to come onto the bench. But I also thought that Stander was sorta an openside / Lee Grant "notter".

If you've got a Cooper / To'omua combination, then I think the replacement bench option will be between Lilo / Beale / Godwin / Foley to cover 10/12/15 off the bench. Lilo, Beale, or Foley can also be the reserve goal kicker. The ideal other benchman would be AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper), who covers 11/13/14/15. I...

You really, really, wouldn't want to rely on To'omua as a goal kicker. He's not great in that department.

You do realise that Adam Goodes is the current Australian of the Year? You do also realise that Adam Goodes is a mad baseball fan and is so widely tipped to throw the first pitch that the market was withdrawn from bookmakers? What a silly question. The three guys there are all currently the...

It's both depressing and disappointing. Those photo ops will no doubt get large exposure in the US and internationally. If you think that it doesn't matter, then you are just rehashing the whole current malaise that Australia rugby is in. Get over the elitist, fan obsessed passion with your...

CFS is more a bulldozer. Don't think him and Turner are much alike in style at all. Ant would be closer to CFS than Turner I think.

I think that if the Reds can score at least 4 tries, they will at least sneak home. Hopefully. @Scoey a fast start would be ideal: getting too far ahead may make the Lions chase the game and turn down kicks at goal.

Stormers same as always, attacking is predictable and one dimensional. Most of the time they look clueless in attack. Defence is good, although the Chiefs took them apart when they needed to. The Stormers did score two late tries against the Chiefs, including a cracker to Aplon, but by then...

Boshoff kicked 29 points in the 34 - 10 win for the Lions over the Stormers in the second round. 6 penalties, 3 drop goals, 1 conversion = 29 points. Believe it or not, the Lions try in that game was in the second minute. Stormers conceded just 9 penalties for those stats. Attack from...

Kingston played quite a bit of fullback for Sydney Uni.

He's the kind of guy every Super Rugby team needs, no doubt about it. You need the guys who do the hard, shit work week in, week out.

That Tahs pack will give up a bit to the Rebels for mobility, with the back 5 of the Rebels more mobile to a man except for Fugly over Hooper. Tahs will be looking to smash the Rebels, Rebels will hope to tire them if they're clever. Tahs won't want to play too wide too early like they did...

Not sure the reported height stat is accurate on Cottrell, he doesn't look that tall in game at all.

Now get this: Reds vs Brumbies: 14 penalties conceded, Brumbies kicked 4/6 penalties. Reds vs Tahs: 13 penalties conceded, Tahs kicked 3/4 penalties. Reds vs Cheetahs: 13 penalties conceded, Cheetahs kicked 4/6 penalties. Reds vs Sharks: 15 penalties conceded, Sharks kicked 7/7 penalties.

Lions attack isn't much chop, but their goal kicking and ability to earn penalties around the oponents' half is. They've won most of the games they have to date off of kicking their penalties. Not to mention, they will kick them from 60m out. First round: 6/6 penalties, 1/3 drop goals to win...

Weeks = games, BTW. But Shiggins got it right - during the bye weeks you can play for your club side, so the Force gets lucky and only loses McCalman for a week.

IMHO the Sharks were better at the breakdown, but it was the ref that made them dominant in the first half some and of the second. All Coetzee had to do was touch the ball and he earnt holding on penalties, where he was supporting his own weight or instantly cleaned out was not important. The...

The scrum is also all over the shop. Agree the Reds need a stable THP, feel sorry for Slipper watching the TH side get shunted frequently. The last issue is just dumb mistake at the wrong times. The Reds just can't keep applying pressure this year as they make dumb mistakes letting the other...

Agreed CFS had cemented the 13. Toua is a real liability at the moment - some of his errors are just so costly. Poor kicking, bad decisions, dropped balls. You can see the potential, but unless he can temper the mistakes he won't make it at this level, and he must be nearing his last chance...