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Robinson, Douglas, Foley and Kingston will stay. Folau and Horne are the ones that might be a struggle to retain - I know the Rebels are trying to sweet-talk the 12s in Super Rugby.

Assuming team lists aren't completely random, my squad this week will be: A. Ta'avao, P. Cowan (O. Franks) S. Moore (C) (D. Fourie) S. Luatua, B. Thorn (S. Carter) P. van der Walt, G. Smith, J. Hardie (M. Hodgson) B. McKibbon (S. Pretorius) B. Barrett (VC) (M. To'omua) R. Horne, R. Ebersohn (F...

From that group: 1. Ben Franks 2. Andrew Hore 3. Owen Franks 4. Luke Romano 5. Sam Whitelock 6. Steven Luatua 7. Sam Cane 8. Kieran Read 9. Piri Weepu 10. Dan Carter 11. Julian Savea 12. Ma'a Nonu (There are no other 12s in the squad?) 13. Conrad Smith 14. Hosea Gear 15. Ben Smith Read or...

"Oi Ref, I'll show you a full arm!"

^^ If you want to piss off half of G&GR, having a go at the front row is a good way to do it :P

Kirchner won't be there for the Bulls, Chiefs centres are uncertain, Rebels 10 is unknown, Big Kev and Samo will probably be in the 22 for the Reds and the Stormers will be without Elstadt and Vermeulen.

Simmons is probably the third-choice lock for the Wallabies atm, if he isn't in the XV expect him in the 23.

Is wildcard an option? If not, just aim to do well from round 16 onwards. Get the Aussies you need, have fun, be stupid on purpose.

Anyone know how likely Chapman is to stick around for 2014?

There's still time! Push for the top 100! PUSH! :D

I'm not suggesting we go out and let our up and comers get smashed on the international scale, I'm saying rotate these players in until they all have a good few games of experience. Six RC and four EOYT, that's ten games. Just trying out one new guy on field and having another on the bench will...

Just under 1000 in the last two games, back into the top 500 overall/almost back in top 20 for G&GR. I will recover.

Great to see James Leckie back in the reffing position instead of being assistant. I really like his reffing style.

Best front row changes on a weekly basis, you can't predict this!

Brumbies hired the same marketing, came up with "Let's lay these flowers on the grave"

I'd take Kane Douglas, Robinson is a LHP and Slipper is a THP, but otherwise I agree entirely.

Look at the All Blacks v Scotland game, they had quite a few newcomers and performed well. As a sort of future-wallabies team, imagine Sio, Hanson, Ryan, Pyle, Carter, Cottrell, Gill, Auelua, White, Foley, Tomane, Godwin, Inman, Crawford, Mogg (Not that I am advocating we throw this team...

Very similar player to Jono Lance, so you'd expect 15? Tapuai and FTA have 12 on lockdown.

Rebels have lacked a solid goal kicker this year, in their last 2/3 games having JOC (James O'Connor) nail those easier shots would have won the game. Besides that, a second playmaker would help get the backline firing, while a stronger openside would allowed them to really punish slow opposition. The Force...

So we know there are players who are simply too inexperienced for a Lions call, but how about the EOYT? Who are the players that we want to be experienced come 2015 but also don't want to throw to the Lions? Eg. Kyle Godwin, looks the goods to be future Wallaby 12 but no way in hell is he...