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1. Mtawarira 2. Servat 3. Castrogiovanni 4. Sharpe 5. Matfield 6. Juan Smith 7. Pocock 8. Harinordiquay 9. Fourie Du Preez 10. Cooper 11. Ioane 12. De Villiers 13. O'Dricsoll 14. Ashton 15. Beale

No stranger to controversy is Mundine either. Famously went public with apparent support for 9/11.

It's considered poor form to start a thread like this and LOL at everyone else's selections. :)

Wayne Smith is just being manipulative. Players will always tend to show solidarity with their group. If a question is asked one way, then players can easily be manipulated into showing solidarity for a senior player, which can then be spun into an implied criticism of the coach and his...

Ear New Zealand?

I have to agree with you, Lee. Kids should be prepared to play for nothing to get a shot at professional rugby. Once they make the cut, then they can get paid. And if they are successful they can make serious money.

Yeah, bloody different ethnic backgrounders. Where the f*ck are Joh Bjelke Peterson and the WAP when you really need 'em? :rolleyes:

That's a terrible result for Holmes, who was considered the best player of his gifted generation. :(

No no, liqour box is right. We should introduce a completely spurious additional contract in order to potentially remove some of our best players from contention for the World Cup. Marvellous.

It does have an effect. By adding 8 free points to each team, the percentage of the total pool of points that can result from bonus points falls. It is mathematically equivalent to awarding 3.x for a win.

By increasing the total number of competition points available in a season, it slightly reduces the effect of bonus points.

Pocock is a very good leader already. He does more of the interpersonal part of captaining than Rocky. Nau is also a very good leader although he will be fighting with Moore for a spot - no bad thing.

I reckon I've met Urban Nymphas a few times over the years.

I think most of the blame for that lies with Connolly's gameplan and with the team for not adjusting when it became obvious it wasn't working. Even as we were being smashed, we still weren't committing to the breakdown in sufficient numbers to compete. It wasn't a case of Vickerman et al...

The Tahs will cream all those front row encounters, excepting that Baxter is ordinary in the tight. TPN vs. Fainga'a especially is some kind of mismatch. The second row encounters will be interesting.

I know there is some perspective involved, but TPN looks like a midget compared to Douglas.

Shirt out, socks down, collar up, colourful shoes. I was a skinny, shortarsed winger so no one noticed anyway.

And journalists aren't allowed within a mile of either.

How many were advised to be rugby players?

Nah, Konze, Palu merely bashes other physical players into submission. My true favorites are the sublimely talented. My all-time favorites are Eales, Horan and Larkham.