Search results

Watch out guys, both Bekker and Mealamu are on the bench this week. I nearly missed noticing on Bekker.

15 minutes into the first half?

Back to the thread. The Tahs did this vs the Reds earlier this year and while dominance was established they didn't get the scoreboard outcome they wanted. So this supposed tactic doesn't always get results. Furthermore, its drawing a long bow to say that the Saders are a limited, boring or...

Hickey is an all-round nice bloke and has taken some of the blows this season with politeness and dignity. So personally, describing him as a cancer is probably a bit emotive. But as a coach he suffers from a number of severe limitations mostly to do with his innate conservatism: He is very...

Slipper should be up against Owen, that should be Slipper easily. Alexander should be up against Daley, that should be Alexander easily. Conclusion: We won't learn anything at all we didn't already know. Fainga'a vs Moore, should be a clear win to Moore. Further conclusion: Reds scrum will be up...

Mawson Lakes (north of the city).

Now that its close to the end of the comp some interesting results are coming out. If you look at the G&GR top 20 you can see: the winner is not a significant selector of position. mickeyc is the best results picker and he is only coming 10th. Only 7 out of the 20 have a win % over 70%, and...

Shouldn't think Greg Somerville needs a rest straight after the bye week. Is he carrying an injury or is this one game the Rebels have decided they won't win? Surprised that Ginger isn't on the bench. I know he's young but he looked OK when he came on, certainly not disgraced.

Some strange selections to my mind: Dunning has played really well this season and the Highlanders scrum is quite strong. This game would have suited him, particularly if the weather goes downhill. Inman on the bench? Cummins on the bench? This game, to my mind looked very winnable for...

Just making it official I guess. Given Valentine's terrible form, it was easy to see no one rated Phibbs.

Thanks Topo, you seem to have some good sources.

Why "one team"? The Wallabies have always been one team (well almost always). The implication of "one team" is that Australia is a union of competing provinces that temporarily gives up its parochialism for the national squad. That may be an appropriate moniker for a team like the Boks, where...

Given the available players there were, I think, two possibilities - Carter or Turner. If Hickey and Bowen pick Turner then Pakalani has to play wing and Berrick goes to the bench. Being conservative selectors they will only pick young players on the bench and try to give them just 5 minutes...

No thank you but Nick White is high on my priority list of targets. His treatment in Brumbyland this year has been diabolical.

With that much grunt the scrums might be quite interesting. The Bulls scrum hasn't been marvellous this year.

I guarantee it is. Hickey will bring him back and sit him on the bench while Anesi takes up valuable space on the park. I doubt he'll even get selected unless Barnes breaks down again or Anesi and Turner get injured. Look at how they've treated Pakalani for one knock-on.

Last week J P Petersen scored 1 try, had 8 runs, 8 tackle busts, 3 line breaks and made 1 tackle. This indicates to me that: Petersen had a field day running. Petersen didn't have to do much tackling of his opposing winger. His direct opponent was "drumroll" Sosene Anesi. Ask yourself...

You're not wrong Blue. If a hothead like Carter can control himself under those circumstances then a team with the sort of discipline the Tahs have will square it up on the scoreboard, not the next time they play. People can say what they like about the Tahs but they always are tightly...

That's a great score given the adversities! Very hard to crack 300 when you get four bad individual results. I got 382 with Kepu off early, Thompson with messam sub and Alcock who thanks to seven missed tackles was in negative territory. Was very thankful I held position in G&GR league, its a...

Short memory syndrome.