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Bit of talk Harry McLaughlin-Phillips might get the call up this Friday with Creighton and Annan both out with concussion: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/rugby-union/the-young-souths-playmaker-who-could-help-reds-rise-20230515-p5d8ld.html The kid is an absolute talent, but it would be a...

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Might be a few more out too - from what I can see Ofa Tu'ungafasi, Akira Ioane, Reiko Ioane, Finlay Christie and Caleb Clarke are all coming off 4 games in a row. Unless they want to rest them against the hurricanes in what is effectively a double point game and key to a home quarter they'll...

If he's properly cheap then I wouldn't be opposed to it, but I'd be a bit hesitant to spend any money on him. Backrow is not a position weakness at the moment and I'd prefer we focused on tight 5 forwards. Timu is a bit of weird situation too, he retired a few years ago before popping up at...

Yeah, I think there is still some sort of high performance vacancy at RA every since Peter Conde resigned. They've never really known what they want to do in that space, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was a candidate for whatever the next iteration of it is.

There have been plenty of rumours that the Reds have been looking at a combination of Howard and Heenan so it wouldn't be surprising. Not sure what his role would be these days, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were looking at him for a Director of Football or High Performance manager sort of...

I'd love to see the 3 phase advantage rule that was used in some of the post seasons trials last year get more of a run. Less dead rugby and a real incentive for teams to immediately chance their hand when they're playing with advantage.

Yeah, I expect we see Uru and Wilson swap again, but with the goal of making sure Uru gets a good stint off the bench. Uru was good but I think the real difference was more of the pack putting their hands up to carry and a much greater focus on our kicking game and away from multi-phase...

I'm pretty sure I saw someone who looked an awful lot like Dan filing down one side of the tee in the background of the broadcast, he knew the Chiefs didn't have a hope in hell against the Reds so went in for a bit of sabotage. No wonder he keeps trying to blame it on Creighton.

Phenomenal from Toole

Nic White does not look well. Hopefully not a long term injury.

Pretty close to it with no bonus point and the Reds upsetting the Chiefs. The drua loosing has helped a bit, but at the moment it looks like they'll need more than just wins against the Force and Highlanders to make the 8

He's a 19 year old in his 2nd/3rd year of playing top level footy and had an absolutely massive year last year with the world cup. Even without the media noise associated with the contract a form dip around about now is almost to be expected. We see 2nd year syndrome all the time with young...

Caffeine withdrawal?

The man is almost 30 years old, he definitely shouldn't be playing under 13s, starter or bench.

Canham really coming into his own this season

What story? I literally just chimed in on this dumpster fire of a conversation to point out Eddie was the Brumbies coach that first picked Giteau. I can't speak for anyone else, but this whole diversion is looking a bit rule 10 for mine, might be time to move on and let it go. Certainly talk of...

You might want to have a look at who the Brumbies coach was in 2001...

This came up in the Rebels-tahs match thread, it looks like Glasgow have announced Sam Johnson is leaving at the end of the season, no word of where to next. https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/65547968 With 100+ professional games and 26 test caps I think he'd be a pretty good option to...

There might be a chance Werchon or Paddy James has a run, but I don't think they'd risk anyone else backing up at this stage.