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Please post early so I know who not to pick. On the other hand, if Genia and Beale get injured you are going to be persona non grata around here for a long time! Pick more Kiwi's and Saffers please, plus Younggs at 9.

Continuing my saga of woe...selected the Georgian bench prop instead of a starter, he gets a run and gives away two penalties. He's currently standing at -4.

There's some interesting comments on Alan Gaffney on the Oz vs Ireland thread. Not saying I agree, far from it, but interesting to see at least.

Mate, if you think the head honcho's in big organisations don't have any influence over people working for them you haven't had much experience working in large organisations. For starters he would have had a lot to do with the selection of the committee and then he would have had behind the...

Here was I using my superior (haha) rugby knowledge to pick one of the Georgian front-rower ...kashvilli's in my fantasy team. And which one did I pick? You guessed it, the one starting on the bench!!! This Fantasy comp has started very badly for me, what with my disastrous picks for round 1...

With Georgia's reputation he might be thanking his lucky stars, he'll miss Gorgodzilla! People who are good at the cheap shot stuff don't usually like to do the hard tackling work in tight - reference Ali Williams and Quade Cooper.

If Barnes had referred it upstairs then I'd have got a win point, a margin point and probably a bonus point and everyone who had chosen SA would have lost points. I demand a recount!! :D

Great line. Almost LeeGrantesque.

Yes but he's just played a full European season, then the WC, Japan and then Super rugby. By then he's going to be pretty jaded and will need a pretty light load in order not to get totally burnt out. Timani's in the same boat if he comes back for the Tahs.

Now I am totally confused: AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) is up on the website, smiling in his wallaby jumper. Axel Foley said that there were still places for a front-rower, backrower and outside back not yet filled. This was after Bernard Foley's signing was announced. Both Bernard Foley and Peterson are up on the...

No conspiracy. Its part of the IRB attempt to make the rugby less boring. If the ball is harder to kick penalties with then scoring tries will be more valuable! Bad news for the Saffers though, their whole WC strategy is down the plughole.

Most backrowers scored poorly, especially the favourites. No Australians made the dream team despite a big win. Hougaard made the dream team off the bench and several dream-teamers were subbed early. Player of the round was a centre playing on the wing. Needless to say I am a long way down...

3. Moore 2. Ioane 1. Pocock Not so easy to nominate standouts - JOC (James O'Connor) was good but not on for long, most players were good in parts but with some major detractions. Rolland was a dick but we need to get better control of our collective temper.

Whether a dummy runner in front of the carrying player has impeded the defence rather than just confused it is a very subjective question. One man's impeded is another man's confused. Personally I am quite happy they seem to have tightened up on the practice, defences should have a clear view...

Yes but its not clear whether that is a two years full, one year rookie and one year full or two years rookie contract. The journalists who write this stuff don't seem to know what questions to ask.

That bench will be OK if SA are in front at 60 mins. But if something goes wrong and they are 7+ points down James is all they've got to spark something . No Lambie, no Aplon, there is just no creativity. So obvious they are going to kick and chase, I hope Wales run at them all day and the...

Disappointing to see that people are concentrating on best 15's for the Tahs, I would have thought that this year's injury experiences would have concentrated people's thoughts on squads rather than best 15. IMO no one except for outside backs whose tackle load is lower should play more than...

Salesi or Campese?

I had to give mine up in 2005 when I moved to Adelaide, but unless my memory is wayward that's about what I paid then for several less games. That looks to be very good value to me.

Picking up on the comments in the othe SA thread, perhaps it will be teams like the Cheetahs giving academy guys a chance to develop that will free up the Cheetahs to blow away a few of the big guns. If that was to happen some of the more conservative provinces will see what can be done and...