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I think it is depressing. A team that was beaten by their New Zealand equivalents has eight Super reps. From the NZ 15 I count only three with Super contracts, all of whom are backs. Unless I am mistaken, not one of those forwards has yet matured to Super status. You don't make it to the top...

My reading of this is that AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) is a "type". A player who is repeatedly played out of position and moved around such that his performance nosedives. There have been a number of "AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)'s" in the Wallabies in the last two years.

This is so full of half-truths and management-speak that it could almost be parody. Its clear Deans didn't write the press release, because it is at least comprehensible. But a number of points of issue need to be taken: The presentations to the Board by Deans and Nucifora, the two most...

Love to see a revival of the Dennis lineout move from round 2.

Awesome picture mate, but the hawk is decked out in what look like Sharks or Stormers colours. Gotta keep the faith.

Has anyone heard any more about Drew's ankle? Apart from the twitter comments I haven't heard or seen anything.

IMO that backrow is better than the Crusaders, who would have the best backrow in NZ; Best backrow in Oz is probably at the Force but they'd be a long way behind those two.

Jeez, I'd love to be a fly on the wall when you sit your 14 year old son down for a man to man talk about alcohol.

Maybe Slim was too young to see Mark Ella in action.

If so then maybe he goes to the Rebels in place of Cipriani, who is in the second year of his two year contract. I think I am right in saying that no foreign players are allowed any more than two years at one club.

Awesome news. Thanks for the tip.

Agree is not enough! He was way better than the four NZ refs selected, he referees unobtrusively and with good humour, which tends to pacify some of the agro rather than stirring it up (I'm looking at you Kaplan). He doesn't make many mistakes; compared to Lawrence who got the Super final its...

Lee, I have a slightly different take on it. I think some senior people at Tah HQ have the belief that Bowen has long term potential as a rugby coach. But this year, 2011, the backs coaching as measured by the Tahs backline performance was very poor. The skills execution and the running...

To highjack the thread a bit..... Fanifo is looking great at SF. But why? He's been getting a worse panning as a winger than Turner and lost his spot at the Brumbies. Perhaps the environment at the Brumbies was part of the problem and he wasn't really deadwood at all???

I guess because the writer is involved in high level rugby coaching this article was written with a lot of detailed knowledge and a huge amount of rugby commonsense. I commend it to everyone on the thread. If he's still involved in the Sevens he would make a great candidate for a podcast guest...

I hope Palmer comes on too!!! I long to have a THP in Australian colours that can monster an international scrum. But I fear, even with Jake White, he's at the wrong franchise for proper THP development. He needs to be competing in contested scrums against Ben Robinson every week to bring him...

Very good analysis (means I agree with about 90% of it :)) Will be useful in a number of ways, not just for fantasy. Thanks.

Vickerman's out injured.

They tell me I should keep up with the new technology but its tough for us old blokes who were born before electronic calculators were invented. I just can't believe I have to do facebook and twitter in order to keep up. :)

Not sure about WJ's claim that Pretorius has had a change of clothes. On the Team > Super Rugby Squad page Pretorius is still in orange, AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) in gold, Foley in green and gold and Elsom and Vickerman in dark blue waratah windcheaters.