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Right, 3 more bans to attend to later. In the meantime, no I was not joking. I have to run out right now and watch some rugby league but I will address this with details in the morning. Let me start here: Hodgson. Let me elaborate: Cowan And I quote: Mitchell? Brown ahead of Palu? Spot the...

Everybody blamed Deans when Mitchell's AllBlacks crashed. I feel like blaming Mitchell for all the bloody Force players in the Wallaby squad. A lot of plodders in there.

Actually there is another job which got a bit lost in my list: - rucking / counter rucking So, you might be 2nd man there, so you hit the fucker as hard as you can, he's just begging for it.

I don't agree that 8 is a specialist position. I believe that it is all about backrow balance. In what way is Dallaglio like Zinzan Brooke? Similarly, at 6, in what way is Jerry Collins like Reuben Thorne? Backrow skills / jobs: - fast to the break down, fetch the ball - tackling - get over...

Here's another one: Rugby Heaven. A surprisingly good team from the duffers at Fairfax. I'm a former 13 and I watch them pretty closely. Great comments on Smuth - both are accurate. He is now too slow for internationals, no matter how cluey he is.

Hmm, not the side I'd have picked. But who knows (in this day and age of rotation) whether some of this is just to have a look.

Well, I've had a look and I guess I can't add to much to the discussion above. In particular, I agree with NTA: At ruck time, the defending team looked too scared to counter-ruck, especially in the red zone. In the scrums, it looked to me that both packs stopped scrummaging whenever a scrum...

Wow. Just wow. The QRU couldn't get a root in a brothel.

Does a mid-field bomb count as first phase?

Check out the final score - close to Bradman's average. He's the Don Bradman of tipping. Next year we should chase the 100 mark.

I think Biffo has a point. On the other hand, what if we discover that these teams are better at making us play like them than we are at making them play like us. If you follow me. Based on the one time I've watched the game, I remember England killing us at the breakdown. Can't score tries...

Yeah, pretty sure. But maybe what I'm asking also applies to Rugby in the 70s. In the interviews with Mark Ella, he is pictured in front of a photograph of himself, holding a ball that says Wallaby in white letters on the dark leather. In short, I want that photograph. I thought I would start...

And the winner of the "80 Minutes Award" goes to Red Slug, for tipping right through to the end of the competition. Good effort, that lass.

If so, please let me know. Cheers.