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Anstee definitely seems to have more impact off the bench, I haven’t even noticed he is playing

I’m not saying he didn’t deserve it, but if it was ruled a penalty only I doubt there would have been an outrage. I mean the two 120kg Force locks put the 85kg Ramm past the horizontal too but I just think it was good competitive footy.

Perese was definitely a good signing.

Lame yellow though, marginal

I might have missed it but what’s up with Nawalphabet? Or is it just the 6:2 split? If it’s the latter then Newsome should have been the sacrificial lamb.

That’s easily the best proposal in the 1000 pages so far. Keep it simple.

Hence why I say his best position at rep level will be #20. Club I’d say #6 and a fill in at 6/8 for the Tahs. He’s very similar to Dempsey size wise, and was actually his understudy his first year in Aus schools.

I’m not sure I’d pick him in the tight five but he’d get a run at Mudgee too in any other position.

I agree with most of the commentary but it was always a possibility. With JOC (James O'Connor) out this week and no back up on the bench for my fantasy team, when I heard Harrison was out I grabbed both of Edmed and Donaldson at the expense of some underperforming players in my squad until the team is...

Angus will pick it up pretty quick. He still looks like a union player playing league. He just needs to be played in the right position, which is probably #20 at both levels.

I think the simplest solution for the SoU dilemma is to make the teams NSW/ACT/Vic/Tas origin, and Qld/WA/rest, in terms of an equitable split of players and geography.

1. Slipper (BRU) 2. Fainga'a (BRU) 3. Tupou (RED) 4. Timani (FOR) 5. Solokai-Loto (RED) 6. Kemeny (REB) 7. McReight (RED) 8. Wilson (RED) 9. Powell (REB) 10. O'Connor (RED) 11. Wright (BRU) 12. Godwin (FOR) 13. Flook (RED) 14. Petaia (RED) 15. Banks (BRU)

Whilst I’m not suggesting Banks was awful, it’s been pointed out on another thread that of his ~170 run metres, around half of that was from the intercept and most of the rest was from 15-20m runs on kick returns, and that in that 170m he made one clean break and beat one defender. Most concur...

I think a back 3 of Koroibete, Wright and Petaia has a pretty good balance long term, and if France send a second string side as is mooted it would be a good opportunity to develop it, with Hodge as the 23 for now and an eye on Vunivalu

Interestingly I have them both in my fantasy team, ASY (Angus Scott-Young) won that battle 29.7 to Valetini's 22.6

Chicken/egg thing isn’t it?

Great game from both teams and the right result IMO.

J The flop onto Petaia after he scored the try was particularly impressive.

He’s been conspicuous but he hasn’t actually achieved much. I’ll be interested to vet his stats.

I think his point is that in real time it’s just a part of the tackle, play on. I can see his point but in this day and age it’s a knock on, sometimes I wish even the referee had a limit on the number of times per game he can go to the TMO.