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Yeah, I know. Was just stirring.

To be fair Sio was pretty good. He seems to have dropped off last year and get worse this year. Won’t be surprised if HJH (Harry Johnson-Holmes) gets picked in front of him. But he has been very good and I won’t be surprised if he bounces back either.

Taking another born and bred Reds lock? I wish you guys could develop your own talent.

I imagine the problem is that Rennie will be keen to build for the future. He has Slipper & Sio we established options, HJH (Harry Johnson-Holmes) as the guy 2-3 years in and Bell who is the project player. Add to that Smith has been our injured for long periods. The thing I can’t argue with is your comment on...

No worries. Happy to agree to disagree. I’m enjoying now Campbell is going but given it is the Wallaby thread and he missed the cut, I’ll leave it at that.

It’s unfortunately the problem of State v Country needs Bobby. The problem the Tahs have is that he is the best person in their roster to play 3. Teams obviously try and accommodate their players maximising their potential where they can - but (like any employer) they have to do what’s best for...

I don’t disagree. I’d have liked to see him picked and I thought his form was good enough, but I get why he wasn’t. I don’t really get your analysis of his interaction with JOC (James O'Connor). Both of them spend plenty of time on kick return and every number 10 spends time at the back. I can’t see where the...

If HJH (Harry Johnson-Holmes) is covering both sides as per the PONI list, I reckon he’ll spend a fair bit of training time at LHP

He must have been ecstatic to get the nod. I wonder if it’s occurred to him he is going to spend the next 12 weeks or so being training fodder for Tupou & Ala'alatoa. The joys of being a young prop. :)

That’s always the problem Highkicks - if we had a Kaino, I don’t think you’d get much argument from anyone on here about them being selected.

Pone surprises me a bit, but his scrumming is fine from what I’ve seen. It’s his fitness I have concerns over. Orr has made something of a late charge, but was never in the frame prior to that. Hoopert has been mostly injured and not in good enough form, and the time has passed for Smith I’d...

Ned’s has a lot of attributes to be very good test 6. What he has lacked is impact in contact and some accuracy - but he seems to be improving in that aspect. At 25 he should be coming into his peak. I wouldn’t have him in my test 23, but I could see how Rennie would rate him. Swinton is a...

Where’s the fun in that????

With regards to Campbell - I agree it is too early to talk of him being a Wallaby starter, although I’d like to see him in the squad. I do find both Maddocks & Banks to be inconsistent though. If DHP is out injured I don’t think either of them have showed the sort of consistent form to demand...

Petaia got a head knock and failed a HIA. It has nothing to do with how durable his body is. I find it a bit weird the number of people keen to write off his career - it’s almost like guys feel some sort of need to cut him down.

I thought I’d read that he was, and he may be a chance of playing the final. I’d assume Brumby Jack would be the person to confirm.

I don’t think we’re likely to see McReight & Hooper together. The biggest thing driving the continual selection of Hooper & Pocock IMO was that they were head and shoulders the best two backrowers we had. It was hard enough at times to find 1 other test level backrower, let alone a second that...

At the start of this season, I would have said he was a solid super rugby option, no more. I was very surprised he got picked in the Wallaby squad last year and even more surprised he got to debut. In the early rounds of the years Super rugby I re-watched a couple of games and specifically...

Interesting that it’s announced today - thought they might wait until after the final. But I guess players have had plenty of rugby to press their case and you’d expect most of the players in the two teams in the final have put pretty good cases forward. A couple of fringe squad guys like...

Good post and I more or less agree with most of it - but disagree on Wright. Not so much last night - I don’t think he was as Influential as he as been last night and I was impressed with both Wilkin and Hardwick - but week in week out Wright has been outstanding and very influential on the...