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It's simply awesome.

tigerland you're much too sensitive. We're allowed to tell jokes. It's only when it gets mean that we get carded. :) I got accused of shit stirring in the Who Will You Support thread for suggesting the Reds deserved to win the comp. Sheesh. People must want me banned!

I would call it satire. :) Shit stirring would get me a ban.

Tapuai would slot in nicely too. Then we could have Diggers on one wing, and the pace of Davies on the other. Perfect. Now who have we missed?

Exactly. It's an international. All internationals are important. And this game is particularly important for Samoa. It doesn't need to have any 'point' apart from those things. World rugby isn't quite yet organised to align with the training schedule of the tier one teams, thank God.

The Force would have been finals contenders if they had closed out their games.

I don't remember him ever losing a game for his team. It wasn't my point. He's a risk-taker and it is always possible. Drew Mitchell used to be the same.

That team is far from average.

Wow.

The question then becomes what to do if Mitchell is fit. A horrible conundrum. Horrible.

Ranger has the ability to turn the game round, in either direction. He's the personification of a risk-taker.

She has both the voice and hair colour for a Reds supporter. Plus she clearly has some width about her.

Yep. And Ioane is most effective with a roving commission. That's a bit harder to achieve from 13.

I think Burgess was very well used. Hr really made a difference in the games where he came on, and Genia played through the rest.

Talking about injuries as a part of the analysis isn't being an apologist, gnostic. They aren't some kind of shibboleth that can't be mentioned.

His running in open play, DPK. His pass is nice and fast and he gets to Rebels breakdowns well. But I think he will struggle with the speed of the Wallabies game. I think he'll be slower than some of our forwards and a lot slower than all our other backs. I'm basing that assessment on seeing him...

Absolutely not. The Reds have played more enterprising rugby.

Phipps is good but he's rather slow for this Wallabies team.

Reds. Deserve it more than the Tahs anyway.

People think that 5th is bad. But the four teams above have just as many internationals. Consider the playing roster of the Crusaders and Stormers. Given the injury toll, 5th is a good result. Sure we want to win the thing, but only one team can. That isn't accepting mediocrity, it is giving...