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Ashe - Currently Injured Strauss - 37 minutes played in 2016 Harley - 66 minutes played in 2016 Wilson - poor form for both Glasgow and in the World Cup Strokosch - Retired Beattie - Poor form for Castres and in '15 6 Nations K Brown - Cotter doesn't seem to like him, plus is more a 6 & a half...

Peterson was only available for this game too. But will some of the 7s boys join the team?

Ben Whittaker and Radike Samo. Everyone else was signed on by another Super Side, Japanese side or European side. On players that should be playing Sevens, I still think that Benny Lucas should had been heavily pursued by you guys after his Reds contract hadn't been released. Ideal skillset...

RebelYell, any details on the players? Obviously can't read too much into the result itself, but could be relevant for player selection especially in terms of injury.

Fair result. Both teams were pretty rubbish, lots of missed kicks, handling errors, scrappy lineouts and scrum penalties all round. England made more of their opportunities, especially through the maul, and the defence in their own 22 was excellent. Both sides will do fairly well in the rest...

Ireland v Wales was covered by one of the Irish Broadcasters, haven't found an online outlet. Don't know if France v Italy was covered at all. As for the Jocks win: Skip ahead about 10 minutes for the match itself.

Ireland 24 - 35 Wales France 40 - 3 Italy Scotland 24 - 3 England Not caught anything of the first two, but got up to watch the SRUs stream of the last one. This is definitely one of the best age grade Scots squads in the professional era. England's kicker was good, and the power in the scrum...

U20s Six Nations starts tonight/tommorow morning (bloody timezones). With us, England and Italy in your pool, should be informitive. I'm particularly interested in this first match for us. We've got a very very good side, at least by our standards, and it's still missing Zander Fagerson, who's...

We seem to have weird standards. Greg Peterson and Shalva Mumakashvili have been released to play in the Americas 6 Nations and the ERC respectively, but we've not released Leone Nakarawa, who Ben Ryan is trying to get released to prepare him for potential Olympic selection. It wouldn't...

It's 18 months without playing internationally at 15s or 7s to make the Olympics switch isn't it? Don't know about specifics on Eligibility but if one grandparent has a British passport, theoretically he'd be able to fast track his own, then his national eligibility would be based on where...

He always looked like a fullback, he was just thrust into Fly half because we had Beale, O'Connor and Gus all injured or otherwise unavailable in 2013, and when Jimmy Hilgendorf came back into the squad, he played like he'd spent 10 months out of the professional set up. When Ellison was...

Harris is probably first choice backup, Hawkins and Hodge would be the next off the line. Hawkins has got quite a bit of ITM Cup experience and Hodge was highly rated at Manly, but 0 Super caps between the two.

Comments: 1. That's one of the best starting line-ups we can put out. Dunbar vs Scott and the three way battle between Visser, Maitland and Seymour aside, there's not too many that you'd change. 2. Bench is where we will struggle IMO. No Fraser Brown or Welshy, no Strauss or Gilchrist, no...

15. Hogg 14. Maitland 13. Bennett 12. Scott 11. Seymour 10. Russell 9. Laidlaw (c) 1. Dickinson 2. Ford 3. Nel 4. Big Gray 5. Little Gray 6. Barclay 7. Hardie 8. Denton 16. McInally 17. Reid 18. Fagerson 19. Swinson 20. Cowan 21. Hidalgo-Clyne 22. Weir 23. Taylor

Hopefully we've got something far closer to full strength come the Samoa game. 2 extra weeks of recovery time, Ellison and Thomson joining the squad and no adding flying risks should hopefully help.

Are there players currently in Australia and either not signed to Super Sides, or able to negotiate some sort of release to replace those in the current 7s squad?

Ged I think is into his 2nd Season as the Saders 3rd stringer, after being the 3rd stringer at the 'Landers in 2014. Interesting that in a fairly experimental line up, Pete Samu isn't playing. IIRC, he's a Vic boy that moved to Sydney and played with Randwick, and spent the last 2 seasons with...

As long as they'd actually ref the bloody mauls, I'd have no problem with it being endless.

Plays for the Quins, about 194cm tall (don't know what that is in old money), primarily an eight, has played blindside and lock as well. Played U20s in 14 and 15, making the Barbarians last season, and has this year to go as well. Was in the the Elite Development squad last year too. Think I've...

Need to get our fair share of the ball and take the points when they're on offer. While there's a few players who're a bit all over the shop in terms of form and injury, there's also a handful in very good nic. Key among them are Laidlaw, Scott, Nel, Hardie and the Grays. A win could give us...