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If the best scrummagers we have are Daley and Holmes then I'll start the Fuse to NZ campaign! When our scrum has been under pressure all tournament, why would you send either of these, who have been beaten in scrums all year?

It would appear from your post that you think Joubert has dropped off the list. Given that it appeared that he was one of the top three refs leading into the cup that's a huge fall from grace.

Hey, at least its half logical. I couldn't make any sense of the team at all except for Barnes at 12. Whether that's what Deans is thinking is another question entirely. For the knockouts we desperately needed Cliffy. If he had played the first 50 against the Saffers with Samo coming on for...

No seven back-up, three hookers and three halfbacks, a heap of injuries and now we play Russia needing to win with a bonus point. And we put out a team like this! If you had written it in a novel the publisher would have trashed it on the grounds that it stretched credulity beyond breaking.

24 hours before the deadline and I am in a quandary over who to sub with only four options available and a totally disfunctional team that needs a complete cleanout. Has anyone any idea of the team NZ will play, I looked on Stuff.com and there was nothing there. I suspect some of Nonu, Kaino...

That sums it up for me!

This is similar to the political argument about overseas aid. BH probably subscribes to the view that "I think it is wonderful that our government is giving overseas aid to poorer countries but I don't want my taxes paying for it." If the IRB gives more money to the top nations there will be...

The Tahs need to find a way to quarantine the goodies from those infidels interstate. Sio could have been anything for the Tahs in another four years.

If that's the case Saia Fainga'a will probably start. Given the Russian scrum is one of their few strengths we could be in for a world of pain.

This incident still has me fired right up, years later. I was in the stand in Dunedin on the other side of the ground and it was still blatantly obvious from where I was what happened. Palu dived into the in-goal area to score the try. Jimmie Cowan following on from the side dived on him on...

I agree. And to add to my dislike he often tackles late or dirty, sometimes both.

I hope that comment is tongue-in-cheek because that is the last thing we want to do and Ewan is far too smart anyway. We don't want to waste questions on issues he can't/won't answer.

Please lets ask these questions first. It is the only known way we might get an answer. Perhaps it could be asked in one question, for example "How is the new salary cap/player squads/academy squads going to work IN DETAIL? What has the ARU told you will be the rules? PS. Don't ask any...

What about DTH van der Merwe at 13. I reckon he's been really impressive. Aaron Carpenter deserves consideration too.

I'm not liking this. Genia is the only player you haven't jinxed so far.

For once, all three backrowers were on the scrum and pushing. That must have been a team plan and a very welcome one at that after the Ireland second-shove debacle. Knowing that this was the team plan Schmoo should have let his man go and covered the blind. He's quick enough to get across in...

Cooper has 44 points before the tackles are counted. The amazing thing is that I expect his score now to go up not down - he definitely made more than twice as many tackles as he missed!

Seven players played really well IMO. Cooper, Sharpe, Palu, Barnes, Horne, Mitchell, AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper). 3. Palu 2. Barnes 1. Horne. Sharpe was next best.

That bloke catches every break!!! Still, if it happened in the first tackle then it may not be too serious. because he played pretty well thereafter. Just have to wait on the scans. Conrad Smith will be sleeping easier, the thought of Horne at 13 would give him nightmares.

Well, you certainly follow the right team. You've got it in spades!