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Except that Nucifora's coaching record is terrible. His current coaching role has been the junior teams. This year on paper we had a pack that could match or better the baby Blacks. But when it got to the cup they were awful. Unco-ordinated, disinterested and unskilled. Absolutely smashed...

Everyone reacts differently to things, depending on what they see. Last week some saw a magnificent win against SA and let their hopes build up. I saw a poor gameplan, abysmal play at 9 & 10 and forward execution being masked by a massive defensive effort against a team that has huge grunt but...

In Genia, Cooper, Barnes, Beale, JOC (James O'Connor), Ioane, Tapuai, Horne, Mitchell etc. we have the most talented backline we have had for ten years, maybe more. Its an absolute disgrace that such talent is being so totally wasted. From time to time our forwards have looked good too. The basis of a good...

I will agree that he's not a good box kicker, though he's probably the best in Oz. But there are a number of things wrong with what we did all tournament: We box kicked so often that it was a surprise when we did not. Box kicks are only a good ploy when they are not expected because the...

Finally, someone at the judiciary uses their head. The player gets to continue his career but with a huge incentive not to get on twitter. He also has to learn what it is like to be a referee, something that will no doubt give him a different perspective. The ruling takes all the heat out of...

I nearly pissed myself. That is awesome!

This is absolutely true. The starting team of Robinson, TPN and Kepu could be the equal of the Crusader front row and better than all the rest. Against that, Robinson's injury will see him having a shortened pre-season too. But it falls away very quickly after that. Ryan and Tilse were very...

That has got to be a wind-up. Reg you need to use smileys so your irony is appreciated.

3. Pocock 2. JOC (James O'Connor) 1. Samo And for those who keep giving points to Genia can I suggest you rewatch the test. He was almost as bad as Cooper.

Does this mean you are expecting Samo at 39 to front up again? :)

It amazes me that someone who has trained themselves up to an exceptional capacity aerobically would ever dream of lighting up. I know all the old stories, but they are usually about props whose aerobic performance didn't have to be that good in the old days. Imagine how much better he'd run...

I thought one of the reasons for England's defeat was that they pased badly and knocked on regularly. This is perfectly understandable. They had spent so much time playing win-ugly rugby that their backs didn't know how to play adventurous ball-in-hand rugby. Good back play comes through...

According to the G&GR teams announced site, Dagg is out and Mils is playing. Dagg is not even on the bench.

Its not like the law of averages (see below). Its like playing with a double-headed coin. Heads I'll dummy and fend, tails I'll pass. Just because I'm a pedant first and foremost, there is no such thing as the law of averages. Just because you have 9 heads straight previously, unless the...

He did it already. He made Axel Foley the forwards coach and our scrum was cleaning up the NH scrums big time. Then he unfixed it by dumping Foley because Foley didn't agree with everything he said and the scrum went back to excrement. That's the history of Deans rule. He'd rather have...

In 2003 RWC minnows were getting 100+ points put on them. That's when Latho scored five tries in a test (if you could call it that). Eight years later and no team has had 100 points scored against them. Sixty or seventy yes, occasionally eighty. And in the first week, when their physical...

I'd put it more strongly, he was definitely one of our best two wingers - Ioane is the other. Properly selected, he would have run on in the QF with Beiber on the bench. On a cold wet day he tried to reach down and pick up the ball at full pace. It was everything operating at full pace and...

Fox and Mehrtens were better kickers but Carter's overall attacking abilities running with ball in hand and putting players into gaps made him the complete player. As good as Larkham IMO and he's the best of the modern era.

France were awful tonight. Whoever plays them next week had better watch out - France's best performances usually come after their worst.

3. Mitchell. Until he was injured his play was sublime. 2. Barnes. Beautifully understated game. 1. Burgess. Outstanding running from the ruck and passing OK. HM to Pocock who only played a half.