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If you push passes and throw 50/50 or lower percentage balls every few phases you will drop a lot. Every now and again those balls will stick for most of a game and you'll put cricket scores on teams. Against teams who have the skills and structure to pressure you will drop more than normal...

The Force actually have an alright backline, the first time they've had one since their first few years when they had guys like Giteau, Mitchell, Shepherd, Staniforth, Cross, JOC (James O'Connor), etc. Mathewson, Godwin, Cummins and Morahan are all pretty damn good players, and I think that Holmes has...

Cheetahs tried to play more conservatively vs the Bulls in that horrible weather and didn't execute well at all. Kicking was really poor from them, particularly Goosen, but le Roux was fairly good. The first game the Cheetahs seemed pretty expansive, but goal kicking cost them. Don't think...

I thought at the time Leckie said offside, but on TV I might've misheard. Replay showed it was a questionable decision, or it wasn't Holmes. The thing is, when you've already given away so many penalties the ref is looking for something to blow. Either way, the Reds would've had someone in...

Robinson loses it 10m out and the Force clear to their 30m line. Force defence holding, but the Tahs are forcing passes. Patience not being shown by the Tahs, exciting, but need patience.

Betham breaks two tackles, then forces a pass which TPN drops. Tahs then turn it over and go to Ryan again midfield, where he seems to be living. Tahs still forcing passes and trying to do too much. AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) kicks ahead, gets a rebound and finds touch.

Foley kicks the penalty. Hooper loses the ball a ruck or two from the kick off. Force go nowhere for a while then grubber ahead a few times, cleaned up by Foley eventually. Beale clears, woeful kick from Rosolea back.

Tahs pinch the lineout, go wide and lose the ball again. Ref was playing advantage for the Force not rolling away.

Throw to the front to Skelton, Force read it and Skelton is tackled. Beale wide to Folau who knocks on, AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) in front picks it up and penalty Force. Intent obvious from the Tahs, but they are going wide too early.

Tahs get a penalty from the scrum. Force front row went down. Tahs kick to 25 out from the Force line. Sloppy lineout, but Phipps cleans up, Force give away a penalty for slowing it down. Beale knocks on to lose the advantage thanks to a poor Benn Robinson pass. Tahs kick to touch 5m...

Godwin takes the kickoff and breaks a tackle, runs to 35 out from the Tahs line before Phipps ran him down and forces a knock on from Godwin. TPN was the culprit with a missed tackle, tried to line up a bit hit at pace and missed.

Kearns is going to be very annoying tonight, thought that the Tahs were close to collapsing it the first time. Holmes kicks it. 5 - 3 to the Tahs, 10 gone.

Force throw it to the back and they mail. Douglas comes in from the side on the second go. Holmes to take the penalty from the right of the posts.

Godwin kicks high and Folau takes another high ball with ease. Tahs showing intent again, going at least two passes wide until Ryan gets it midfield and the Force turn it over in a dominant tackle. Palu (?) rushes up and puts in a big hit, Force recover and get a penalty. Holmes kicks to...

Zack Holmes misses the penalty just to the right from about 40m out halfway to the left touchline.

Incidentally, crowd looks absolutely awful. Hope there is still people coming in through the gate. Kearns waxing lyrical about the Tahs scrum. Solid scrum from both teams. Tahs kick to Morahan, who kicks to Folau who takes it spectacularly over Cummins. Folau gets up and runs, but is...

Great start, spreading the ball until they find space. Intent shown to go a few channels wide of the ruck at least from the Tahs. Was god interchange out wide from Skelton, Alofa Alofa and Folau for the try. Foley misses the conversion, 5 - 0. Force knock on off the kick off, Robinson...

Yeah, Lions are the shock of the season so far. What the hell is going on? What was the game like? Blue; agree, not impressed with the first round either. Hope it's rustiness and not a sign of things to come, as the only game I've really enjoyed watching so far this week was the Blues vs...

The good thing of Deans was the amount of hard work he put in at the grass roots level. As Bruce said, he normally carried himself with dignity and you could tell he generally did care. I reckon that worst thing for Deans is some of his man management, discarding of players he clashed with...

Reds broken 30k, now at 30,026. Tahs still saying 12,952. Someone needs to tap the unpaid intern on the shoulder. Not sure on the rest.