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Sio couldn't be dropper after teaching Jannie du Plessis a thing or two about scrums last week. Prior played really well, almost like Giteau at 9 - nice long pass, reasonably quick, good vision.

Called it, Sio and Palmer starting. I don't think White could consider benching Sio after his game. Let's hope he keeps it up.

Brumbies: 1. Scott Sio 2. Stephen Moore 3. Dan Palmer 4. Peter Kimlin 5. Sam Carter 6. Ben Mowen (C) 7. George Smith 8. Fotu Auelua 9. Ian Prior 10. Matt To'omua 11. Joe Tomane 12. Christian Lealiifano 13. Tevita Kuridrani 14. Henry Speight 15. Jesse Mogg 16. Siliva Siliva 17. Ben Alexander 18...

Reds team named 1. Greg Holmes 2. James Hanson 3. James Slipper 4. Ed O’Donoghue 5. James Horwill (c) 6. Eddie Quirk 7. Jarrad Butler* 8. Jake Schatz 9. Will Genia (vc) 10. Quade Cooper 11. Digby Ioane 12. Ben Tapuai 13. Anthony Fainga'a 14. Chris Feauai-Sautia 15. Jono Lance 16. Saia Fainga'a...

Highlanders named 1. Tony Woodcock 2. Liam Coltman 3. Chris King 4. Brad Thorn (Captain) 5. Josh Bekhuis 6. Jarrad Hoeata 7. John Hardie 8. Elliot Dixon 9. Aaron Smith 10. Colin Slade 11. Hosea Gear (Vice-captain) 12. Ma’a Nonu 13. Jason Emery 14. Kade Poki 15. Ben Smith Reserves 16...

Chiefs are first up Pauliasi Manu Hika Elliot Ben Tameifuna Michael Fitzgerald Brodie Retallick Liam Messam © Sam Cane Nick Crosswell Tawera Kerr-Barlow Aaron Cruden Asaeli Tikoirotuma Andrew Horrell Tim Nanai-Williams Lelia Masaga Gareth Anscombe Rhys Marshall Ben Afeaki Romana...

You guys don't have Afeaki in your team, do you? I hope not. He's on the bench.

When we had McCalman at 8 we didn't struggle too much, but he hasn't been doing too well this year. If he regains his form it wouldn't be too bad.

Helps when this year most of the race is on their track.

I'm with qwerty on this one, if we lose, we don't get it back for 12 years. Not saying I don't want the Bledisloe, I'd just rather keep the Lions then lose it for the Bledisloe.

To be fair, that was our fault...

Well, any team could catch up, but if they really want to win, they don't aim to be their equals, they aim to be their betters. They have us in Sydney in front of (I'll guess) 14000, they have a new coach, a new play style, fans to play for - and the aim is to match us? No, they want to out do us.

So with Barnes not being as injured as we thought, and with Cheika pointing towards him being the Waratahs 12, might we see him return to the G&G in the 12 jersey? Last time we saw him there (2009-11), he and Gits were the two best 12s in Australia, kept the 10-12 channel closed and were threats...

Barnes and Giteau were interchangeable as the best 12 in the country from 2009 to 2011, and we just haven't played him there since. If Cheika starts playing Barnes at 12 and he does well, not only would he bring form to the backline (Eg. v France, v England, v Wales last year), but he could be...

Everyone but George is available too.

It is a test, and they are considered an international team. It will probably count for us, but not them.