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I'm comparing them to no one. Just making the point that ATM their selection @ 10 would dramatically weaken the side. It's actually not that unusual for a side to be missing their first choice 10 & 12 for parts of the season.

Ben V was good in the SS,and atrocious in both Soup & Gen Blue. He appeared to be suffering from huge bout of nerves, and was basically used as a winger of last resort last year. Horwitz has been used predominantly as a 12 since leaving School.He is proficient at converting a numbers...

I have a less optimistic view about the competence of those two @ 10 in a Super Rugby. But as LG noted,Lance is a capable replacement so it's unlikely we will need to find out.

It's interesting that a coach that places so much emphasis on contact,has no place for a crash balling 12. We are also skinny at 10 IMO,if both KB (Kurtley Beale) & Foley go down,it's all over.

Good to see him wearing headgear. He might have been injured without it!

He is good enough now for the higher level,with the ball in his hand. It's the other parts of the game he needs to work on,to make the step up to super footy IMHO.

Heavy representation from the Northern beaches,with 5 players in the squad!

Manly? They have to replace their entire pack don't they? Can't see them figuring in the finals this year.

My uneducated view is that if there was a scintilla of evidence,that wearing rock tape would give the knee structural support,every fourth grade winger in the land would have been using it for years. I have seen rock tape used all over the body,but never as structural support for a knee. So I...

Abrahams started in the 20's last year,and played strongly for the Rays development team in a trial against this squad. At least 2 of the centres that remain in the squad,played poorly in this game and looked well out of their depth. Yet they remain,and he is gone.

I'm surprised a few of the big boppa's from Souths have been omitted. But I admit I haven't been at training or seen any internal trials. They look small in the 2row & 8 to me. The back 3 looks strong though. Centres are also interesting. Obviously form in the Rays trial was not taken into...

I don't think there were needless casualties. Clearly the coach had issues with too many of the playing group to continue.

What would happen in this scenario,is weaker clubs would be cannibalised by the stronger clubs,making the SS unviable. Give the new comp a chance. When the Super 10 was formed,no one had much interest in it for a few years. You cannot expect start up franchises to have spectators of +10,000's in...

Good points BH,and unarguable when the game is played in the right spirit. However in these days of professional/cynical coaching,it not an even contest when refs go into games with pre conceived ideas on the relative strengths of the respective packs. When I see deliberate illegal binding in...

You will never get rid of the corporate clique,they are like cockroaches,they could survive a nuclear holocaust. Ch 9 is a perfect example. The shareholders lost their total investment.the mezzanine lenders lost 90c in the dollar.secured creditors took a bath. No one in their exco lost their...

It's a problem because it's a distraction. You can't be all things to all people. There are very few people who don't like 15's or 7's,that will be devotees of 10's. It's also a third party who stands to make any profits out of a 10's tournament,so where is the upside for the game of rugby in...

I'm not sure that Hawker adds any more value than Bill. The only thing I can remember him saying publicly,is firstly lauding the job JON did,and secondly announcing that after conducting a world wide search he found the best man for the job was his close mate. Given the state of the joint when...

If the current board members cannot see any alternatives to the way forward as espoused by Pulver,then they are the wrong people for the job.

If it didn't jeopardise their TV money,they would have already cast them adrift.

Yep, substitute grassroots & ARU,with Coles and their suppliers,and you have a $10M fine.