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And, agree that as Alexander had missed his man (Louw), it was likely a Boks try even if Cooper had made his tackle as Strauss had Louw in support on an isolated Cooper. But that's all hypothetical, and it goes down as a mistake for Cooper. Which for me is a shame as it blemishes an otherwise...

I agree that Cooper had to try to tackle Strauss, although I think that Louw's overs line would've quite easily have gotten him around Alexander. Cooper should have stayed on Strauss as his man. I would hope that in the match review that is shown to Cooper his mistake. Having said that, a...

I can recall Link making quite a few mistakes in Super Rugby. In 2011, he read the breakdown changes completely wrong at the start of the year and got steam rolled by the Waratahs, including getting completely wrong selections like Quirk at 7 and Horwill at 6. The thing is, most of the things...

Moore and Mowen were desperately sliding across, like the rest of the forwards. The Boks smashed over the advantage line in the two preceding rucks, leaving the Wallabies defensive line broken. The ball was too quick for the forwards to pan out. If our forwards had done their job in the...

Agree. We didn't just kick it from the 22, we seemed to kick it from anywhere within our half. And we kicked it out of a contest. Nothing wrong with clearances from your 22, but we kicked it away (or fumbled it away) to such an extent in that first half that our backline got zero chance of...

This, would love to see this. Fardy to LH lock, Horwill TH lock, Robinson LHP, Slipper THP, Sio and Kepu/Alexander on the bench. No more robotic kicking away of turn-over ball. Saw a stat that Cooper touched the ball something like 2 or 3 times in the entire first half.

Apologies, was being lazy. Should have been "last couple of games that Palmer played", as indeed you are right that JP Smith was there at the end, and Ruan Smith before JP before Ruan was injured. The last game that Palmer played was vs the Rebels round 17 (had to check, couldn't remember!)...

If the Rebels sign Horwitz, it will be to their main squad, not EPS. There's no reason that Horwitz would take a Rebels EPS spot over a Tahs EPS spot. The announcement of the Rebels' EPS squad says nothing about where Horwitz will end up, as of yet. We will need to wait for the announcement...

Neither for me. One is currently a great assistant coach who has failed as a head coach, the other looks to have the potential to be a very good coach but is still green. If it has to be one, I guess Fisher, the great assistant coach. My issue with Fisher is that he has been a head coach...

Holmes isn't up to test level right now. The Reds front row vs the Lions was better with Anae (LH) and Owen (TH), it got smacked around with Holmes (TH) and Daley (LH), and then Holmes still struggled after Daley went off. Also, from memory the Reds scrum struggled on the LH side when Holmes...

Personally, I'm not upset at this decision. Hopefully it can get us back talking about the Wallabies quicker, and less about JOC (James O'Connor).

To be honest, I was trying to be moderate and calm a bit of the hysteria. I think that the bolded option is the most likely cause of this issue, it definitely sounds like it. And if that's the case, I concur, would stand him down for at least the next game, or the tour (next two games). My...

Personally, I am waiting for more information. It's easy to jump to conclusions here, due to the person involved, but the facts make for an interesting case. 1. 5am Sunday after the game, with his GF. Was he really likely to be excessively drunk at this time? Or was it really a dispute...

Cummins has a broken hand, so he's out. Tomane in, CFS as cover. Don't get Dennis / McCalman both touring and Gill not. Too many blindsides / number 8s, no openside backup. Stinks of WC 2011. Sio unlucky, I would've taken him as another prop and left Anae plying his trade in the ITM cup...

Wasn't there rumblings that Roach has links to the Force?

Objective?

I don't know if that's rhetorical or not! I reckon Folau, maybe JOC (James O'Connor) from the backs. From the forwards, I reckon Fardy, maybe Slipper. The only other forward with some "currency" from his performances recently is Hooper. That's it. If we had credible alternatives for the other positions...

Yeah, I thought the same thing. My guess is that Link would rather carry a direct replacement for AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) so it's easy to sub AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) if he puts in another poor performance. Likewise it's also easy to also sub, say, Cummins if he puts in another poor performance by moving AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) to the wing. With just...

He was talking about SA narrowing the gap on NZ in the IRB ranking, nothing to do with Aus/

Oh, and if it's true that Genia is dropped to the bench, thank fuck.