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Bismark is out this week! Don't think that's been posted yet.

Bastards. Just giving the Chiefs an easy run. They've got the bye next week if he's getting tired.

Problem is the game is against the Stormers and is likely to be very tight. Expect that scoring will be, on the whole, lower than normal.

For the last two years the Force pack has been full of Wallabies and they've been at the bottom of the table. This year in my tipping comp I picked them to come a close second to the Tahs. Silly me. Only worse choice was to tip the Blues to win the NZ conference. The Force are the serial...

Rebels need a THP who can play at Super level, not someone from the academy. Rodney Blake got schooled last week, as did Laurie Weeks, and you want to put an academy player into that situation? You need a 25+ year old prop from first grade, Sydney or Brisbane, who can scrummage well. Hard to...

The legal system for years has had a massive problem with "not proven to be guilty = innocent". Right now the bias in the system is towards the notion that not proven guilty = innocent, which means that all sorts of guilty people get off for all sorts of reasons and then want to sue someone for...

If and when! What are we going to do this week? We can afford at most two more losses and we haven't played the Stormers, Crusaders or Bulls yet. We cannot afford to drop this match.

Its a long time till the international break - that starts at round 15, we are only in round 8.

Yeah, but the Tahs have to pick their game up NOW, not soon. Another two or three losses and we are gone for the season. I have always thought that Horne has all the skills. The day he played Conrad Smith, the worlds current best 13, and absolutely owned him proved he has the skills. But...

Twitter is for celebrity twits. Real people have conversations with more than 140 words. Now to return to the Waratahs..... I am very concerned about the Pakalani no-show. He was supposedly injured last year and is recovering from shoulder surgery, or so the scant information has it. There was...

Eddie better go straight to the run on, otherwise the scrum will be owned by the Brumbies. Blake was OK to good in the open but his scrummaging was worse than Daleys (and that's not a very nice thing to say about a LHP).

Not sure how you pay a debt back without making a profit unless you went to the Christopher Skase school of accountancy. But my congratulations to the Reds franchise. They are clearly the best run of the five after being the worst for many years. Now if we could just clone them for the...

I thought that when the decision was made to limit Super squads to 30+5 that it was diabolically wrong. It seems that the franchises basically just ignored the idea by having players join the squad and train who were not paid. Lousy outcome if you haven't got a contract or a sugar-daddy, but...

Lee earlier posted that Phipps had a blinder. Me, I thought he was very average in a backline that needs good quick service to use their spectacular talents. I did not think he was very good at all and the idea he might get anywhere near a Wallaby jersey this year fills me with dread. One...

Easy? I doubt Mark Ella would have looked much better behind a beaten pack and a now very slow halfback. Every card was stacked against him. He'll be hurting big-time but he just needs to go back to grade, regroup and play good football. He'll get another chance. We aren't so blessed with...

Think he and Pyle need to learn to push in the scrum first. At test level that scrummaging would be catastrophic.

What to do about the scrum? Rodzilla is totally out of his depth as he always is against good scrummagers, locks aren't pushing and poor Nick Henderson can't do it all himself. With Weekes down for the count and probably out for weeks, who can they front with next week? Its a cluster****!

I reckon that this week we will start to see the unravelling of the "mastercoach" scenario at the Brumbies. White's old SA ideas about not needing a genuine fetcher at 7 and not needing to hold the ball longer than two phases are going to be gold for the Reds at Suncorp. If the Reds play...

The Appointments Board has a lot to answer for in its policy of deliberately scheduling referees who have had problems with a particular team to that team repeatedly: Jonathon Kaplan has been a constant issue for years. The Waratahs record with him in charge is two wins and fifteen losses...