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Bismark to the bench, Robinson doubtful, Strauss bye, van de Merwe bracketted and is doubtful, Pyle injured, Ioane injured, Eberson bye, Shepherd injured, Munro benched. Season over for me I think. Five changes needed, only three allowed. Update on how tough G&GR is: Last week I scored 442...

And this from someone who supports the team with the weakest scrum in the Super comp. People in glass houses.......

Those who have such a crisis with the way the Tahs backs play will be distressed to even hear this option. But, in my opinion, if we can't get Cheika from Stade this is the next best option. I think Phil would make an excellent forwards coach, especially as they have Vickerman to run the...

Only sensible if he's giving himself the yellow card!

And that's the problem. Both Alcock and McCutcheon have had significant time at seven this year and you would be generous if you described the results as patchy. By my count McCutcheon had one good game, one fair game and two bad games. (Memory being what it is I'm not sure if he had four or...

Probably true Paarl, but injuries have decimated our season. Before you say that everyone has injuries our list has first choice loose head prop, reserve loose head prop, first choice tight head prop, reserve hooker, reserve lock, first choice blind side flanker injured this week with first...

Fairly unlikely I would think. Hickey's read on the backs performance in the Bulls game will have been "Not too bad, lets try it again". So I expect we will see Burgess, Hangers, Barnes, Carter with a back three of Anesi, Beale and Turner if fit. McKibben, BKH and Pakalani on the bench. Not...

Haven't looked at the SMH team of the week but I did glance through their player ratings and some of them are way off. Alexander might be slightly up the scale at LHP but I think that Kepu, Slipper, Palmer, Baxter and probably Fairbrother in that order would be above him at THP. Since Foley...

To clarify: Give or take a few, the head to head player comparison favours the Force 2:1, as it did when the Force played the Tahs. The Force lost then and I expect them to lose again. The two key factors in the Tahs winning IMO were: The Tahs wanted to win more and willed themselves over...

If the ARU persist with their 30 contracts nonsense then the Australian franchises are going to have to go the same wider training squad route (not just full of juniors) and get some third party benefactor to fund it. Only solution I can see.

Did the same analysis before the Force/Tahs game when the Tahs had major injury problems and got very similar results. But what happened? The totally outclassed Tahs took the game away from the Force by a sheer effort of will and a totally fucked Force gameplan which had JOC (James O'Connor) at fullback...

Have the Saders only used 30 players this season? With their injury toll I would have thought they would be past that by now.

1. Reports were that Ryan's shoulder injury was serious and he would be out for 2-3 weeks, so Tilse is in. This scares me silly as he has had back problems this year and is playing Uni seconds. 17. There's been a lot of support in the club forum for Aldy King from Uni at LHP. Whether he...

If this stays as it is then Sitaleki Timani, Atieli Pakalani, Cooper Vuna and Siale Piutau will not be eligible to play for Japan, Australia or New Zealand at any time in the future.

Mate, you're a legend. 500 despite having Robinson! And predicting the Highlanders new strip! :) You'll have to bench or trade Pretorius this week, have a look at Stannard as a halfback scoring like an inside back.

I doubt either the Brumbies or the Reds would have got anywhere near as close to the Bulls at Loftus, they are back to their 2010 form I reckon. Granted five of the Tahs were injured or carded, but I still think Beale, Timani and Baxter were better than the chosen 15, given the quality of the...

You're not wrong. I got 448 and dropped a position too. Before I looked at the table I thought I'd had a pretty good round despite Ben Robinson, Ioane, Shephard and Munro. I thought I'd really start to make a move. Any G&GR player scoring under 400 had better be ready to drop a swag of spots...

There has been some comment on the Reds threads after they lost three players in one week that there are not enough contracted players for next year. Any Tah or Brumbies fan would have found this to be a statement of the bleeding obvious. For example, the Tahs fourth hooker has just done his...

To put this into some sort of perspective, the Tahs lost five on Friday night: Robinson, Ryan, Douglas, Mowen and Turner. The Reds only lost three. Welcome to normality after an absolutely charmed run.

I know I am replying to my own quote, but the results this round have been extremely weird (Sharks/Cheetahs still to come) and based on this weekend there is too much variability in performance to properly predict anything much. The Stormers (who didn't have to play much) and the Crusaders (who...