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That’s a fair response if you’re a Brumbies supporter, but it doesn’t help the rest of us much! Adam beat me too it.

I realised after I posted that I have a friend who's a good friend with Harry's parents, have asked the question.

That might be true, but it further begs the question, what did Harry Wilson do to Rennie?

QC (Quade Cooper) Kerevi Rodda (Force/RA signed now) ? ? EDIT: don't worry, worked it out. I don't count Hooper and Philip as foreign players though.

Dan Mackellar having a fair bit of influence

4/5/6 Leota. I don't mind the 'building combinations' thing as long as they work or at least show some promise. Swinton/Valetini doesn't and neither does Banks/anyone.

Only as a back up one by the looks of it.

Leota & Kaitu'u debut. Don't get the Tupou on the bench thing. Fuck the other fullback options must have gone poorly at training.

1. Angus Bell (8 Tests) 2. Folau Fainga’a (17 Tests) 3. Allan Ala'alatoa (49 Tests) 4. Izack Rodda (26 Tests) 5. Matt Philip (15 Tests) 6. Lachlan Swinton (4 Tests) 7. Michael Hooper (c) (111 Tests) 8. Rob Valetini (10 Tests) 9. Tate McDermott (8 Tests) 10. Quade Cooper (70 Tests) 11...

almost 2 days ago in fact. 12.45 I believe

Doran's article said that he is fit but was overlooked because he'd been away from the team for 1 month and hadn't played for 3. Chance he's on the bench though.

I like all that.

Quade & DP were installed into the squad by virtue of already being in Queensland, there's more than a bit of a Covid influence here. So the mantra of always selecting your best team for test matches, became select your best team that's from players who are in Queensland. I suspect that Rennie...

Super Rugby / TT, at least in the short-medium term, needs to be an aspirational thing for players sourced from a pro domestic comp. We need more than 5 professional teams for the code to survive and grow here.

I know you’re being sarcastic but it would be interesting to know the reasons - it sounds like he was asked into the squad reasonably early, at least before the border closed anyway. Might have been contractual, or he might have still been having 2019 RWC nightmares. Unpatriotic he is not though.

I don’t know enough about Qld to comment on that situation, but for NSW longer term I’d like to see the Tahs morph into the Sydney Waratahs, a Western Sydney side, and a third side which has an emphasis on players with country roots but with a home base, probably somewhere like Newcastle, or...

The article also says that Foley rejected an SOS call prior to QC (Quade Cooper) being recalled. Just to keep the old debate going!

Seems you’re on the money!

Obviously these comps were all regionally based, Australia is obviously way too big for a national comp, especially when it’s amateur. But it culminated in a representative season, and the top players would play for their clubs - in fact it wasn’t unheard of for players to turn out for the...

No-one has answered so I will - that would be because prior to Super Rugby the sport was amateur. We had a plethora of domestic comps going on around the country at various levels and the sport was thriving on the back of our 1991 RWC win. The first 10 years of the pro era Australia actually...