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Assuming this game is true, I'd leave the Force proper alone and throw some academy players in the 'A' team. What a thrill for them, let alone the developmental traits.

Looks like Dan and RN are relocating their ongoing ‘where to’ debate to this thread ;)

A Christy Doran article this morning suggests that QC (Quade Cooper) won't be in the 23.

Well actually it was after his horror night in Sydney last year that the baby got thrown out, and then in fairness when the non-answer Hodge played there we beat them. Noah was understandably given the first crack at the role, but that doesn’t cement him in the spot, there are a couple hanging...

I started writing this in the broacast thread, but decided it was more appropriate here. The talk there about the need (or not) for a 3rd Bledisloe got me thinking. This is an adaptation of an earlier pipe dream I posted but I wonder how this would work from both a competition and broadcast...

No one is claiming they are the best. However those claiming there isn’t a lot of difference between their top side and their second side are right. It wasn’t their third string side we played, most of their past regulars weren’t there and a few of their second stringers weren’t either, but...

The time we beat the Lions and the time we lost against them when Beale slipped over were both pretty good games, although he shouldnt have been at 10!

Did I miss a game somewhere?.

However, Seconds is an obvious case on the affirmative side of any debate about referee bias. There is a referee out our way here notorious for this syndrome. My point was on the premise that there are 4 x kiwis on the refereeing panel and it only takes one of them to have an unconscious...

Bingo. This is my thinking, I just wasn't very good at explaining it!

I’m not suggesting cheating though I can understand why it’s being construed as such. I’m merely saying it’s another disadvantage we have to encounter. I’ll retract my comment that we can’t win as that’s a bit strong, but you certainly aren’t going to convince me it’s not a disadvantage.

Yes, if we make the national 7s team an indigenous only team, believe it or not that’s racism. It’s an Olympic sport. Sure, have an indigenous development arm, but every Australian is eligible for selection.

The wind had a lot to do with at least a couple of those lineouts.

Olympics too I’d say.

I did the express 20 minute mini on offer via Stan and got bored in that.

He’s one of those 0.5 ones.

That’s not what I said. It’s hard enough to beat the all blacks with a neutral ref, let alone with 4 x kiwis on the panel.

Valetini didn’t offer a lot of impact, I don’t mind your thinking but I’d be swapping him and Naisarani around, I reckon Valetini is the perfect bench player.

3 Paisami 2 Hooper 1 Kellaway

Just a bit of a left field aside from the game, I thought Retallick was a liability for the white ferns. He’s a smart player and knows how to push the edges, the cheap shot on hooper a case in point, but it looked like he was trying to play to his smarts rather than just play footy, probably...