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People make a big deal out of that. Apart from Giteau and Mitchell name one other.

For the Waratahs maybe. I think most fans don't really want Cheika. He'd be better than nothing. I reckon we'd be better off with Johnson, Louden or Lane. Preferably in that order.

Hahahhahaha. Very funny quote from Palu. It's even funnier that being a Waratah he might have been serious.

Yes. Manu hasn't started a game before. Ben Alexander isn't that crash hot in the scrums but there is bound to be more pressure on because of it. I think we probably would have been under the pump regardless of whether Ma'afu was fit. The upside is that Manu is pretty handy around the field.

Apparently the Force want to bring Mark Swanepoel back. He lost his eligibility for Australia when he left Aus to play in Christchurch. I certainly wouldn't see an issue in this. There are a few areas where there is little depth in Australian rugby and exceptions need to be made. Seasoned second...

Yeah it seems crazy to persist with Godwin as a kicker. I think the rest of his game has been pretty solid though. Kicked out of hand well, defended well, took a good high ball, passed fairly well.

Except that Barnes has Spencer's tackling ability and Cooper has Mehrten's

The Americas would be dreadful for Australia time zone wise. Not too much better for the Europeans either.

Going back to the home unions in 2023 might be a bad idea. France and England will have already hosted it in recent years. Better off sending 2023 to South Africa which is at least on the same time zone, has the stadiums from the Football WC and hasn't hosted the tournament in donkeys years...

Well we may not have David Pocock, Will Genia or Ben Tapuai but at least we have Dave Harvey. Crisis over.

WA, Victoria and maybe the ACT could really use a franchise based U20 competition. If it was semi-professional it might also help the player drain to League.

I don't have the energy to get started on that one. It's old news.

Don't be condescending. Besides, who exactly are you referring to in a marquee player? The Force are spending plenty of effort in developing Godwin. Even you guys are smart enough to see he is not ready to be a starting 10 in Super Rugby. Another 10 capable of starting week in week out, in...

It is highly, highly unlikely that the Reds will play the Crusaders unless it is in the grand final itself. The best the Crusaders can hope for in finals seeding is 4th. The Chiefs are 7 points ahead and it is very unlikely the Crusaders will top that. The Stormers and presumably the Brumbies...

Battering ram. Tawake is in the Palu mould. We have enough toilers in the Force back row. We need a bit of impact. He's getting on a bit though.

Interesting. I think we tried to sign him back in about 2008. We lack that kind of player in our backrow. I wonder if that means the Force won't be offering a new contract to Richard Brown.

Before Horwill's injury I would have said yes. I'd wager on the Reds taking the final 3 games, which should see them into the finals. They might also get lucky in that being in 6th place for the finals might see them play off against the Brumbies. Ideally, that would feed into a semi-final...

Australia by 10. We always seem to play better in Brisbane.

Hahahaha. Most likely that will be Wales.

No probably not. But Scotland might beat Argentina. In which case we'd only need to beat France to go through. It's a long shot but given the upsets we've had so far it wouldn't surprise too much.