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Assuming we can’t get Pasitoa, that seems the best play IMO. Although isn’t he already signed for 2021 with the Tahs.

I think the thing is Petaia would be good wherever. It is a matter of where he would be best and also where he fits with others around him. From a Reds point of view it may come down to a choice between Stewart & Campbell. The other consideration is if Grealy is considered to be a hot prospect...

I don’t think so. I thought he might have got picked at some stage but it clashed - but I could be wrong on that. And you’re right - it would be and you never know. At least having gone to BBC & having connections to guys like Shane Drahm there is some connection there. He played rugby through...

Jack Howarth is league to his bone. He was never staying in rugby.

I love Wilson’s work in tight. I think it just comes down to who he is playing with and where they are best deployed, and I think all of the remaining choices have reasonable claims, without any of them ticking all the boxes. In the first test I was surprised Rennie played Wilson wide and...

I don’t mind if they start Wright. I think he is more likely for the 20 jersey though.

As Joe Blow said above he has been used regularly and effectively by Australia A at 2. I was concerned about using him because of his jumping but that seems to have been addressed. My concerns are with his workrate/accuracy. I didn’t really notice any improvement there in the Australia A games...

Haha - well played.

I predict Hooper will be the 7th name on the team sheet. Unless Rennie likes to work from the back.

It’s a shame about the Bledisloe - but this has been set up to be a cracking Tri Nations series

I agree with your last sentence, but I’m not sure yet we know exactly what our biggest strengths are. I note that there appears a trend towards bigger back rows, although I’ll qualify that by also noting a lot of the best big back rowers have tremendous athletic capacity. Guys like PSTD & Itoje...

I wonder if Rennie will be considering bringing Nasirani straight into the starting team. Nasirani at his best has a good balance between work rate & physicality. I know he was left out of the squad initially, but if it is true that that was based around shortcoming in his fitness and he has...

To be clear - I’m not rushing to judgement. I don’t begrudge anyone trying to make the most of their circumstances and I get that these are unique times. However, Koroibete did accept a written commercial offer from RA which was beneficial to his circumstances and meeting his commitments. It is...

I completely understand why some people don’t want to talk about Cheika. But he was an assistant coach in the game and the various points of discussion where the level of influence he had, if any, on the result and the contrast of tactics employed vs what tactics he employed as coach for the...

I’ll add that I note that Cheika features in discussions across social media this morning. Lots of people find it an interesting sub-plot, even if some do not.

Respectfully, please can we stop telling other people what to discuss.

My concern is it also give a green light to every player manager to shop their client while under contract. I assume a lot of them do that anyway - but RA would be shooting themselves in the foot to encourage it.

Then don’t read it. There are 100s of conversations on here I have no interest in. To be honest, what I find annoying is when people try and shut down conversations they have no interest in. Who cares. I get it when it is a rehashed conversation that has happened 100 times - but even then, why...

Why. No one is being disrespectful. You’re overthinking it. It’s a rugby forum.

Well, it certainly says something about Cheika’s tactics. Argentina employed a well executed kicking strategy and an uncomplicated, hard working defence system and between the two it kept NZ under constant pressure. Not to say we don’t have/haven’t had issues with our players - we did & we do...