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The obvious comment is that it relies upon your players having a better and bigger huge boot than your opponents, and your opponent to be inadequate at running the ball back. White, To'omua, Mogg all have it. Genia, JOC (James O'Connor), Barnes/Beale do not kick as far as the Brumby trio. The other side is...

Kimlin was huge. Real captains knock. He may have played his way into the Wallaby 23. I think he's in the best form of his life. The other forwards I particularly liked were Fainga'a and Sio. To'omua great defensively. I sense, though, I might be alone with what I am about to add. Just...

Yeah, rumours that the wings will be Ioane and Folau. Beale likely at fullback? From what is likely of Gatland's rumoured selections, it shows some Welsh bias. How Cuthbert could be starting is beyond me. The way Phillips is playing he isn't anywhere near the top halfback, either. I think...

Blue's point wasn't that it went down, but rather the big assumption that it was all the Lions doing it, particularly when 2 of 3 Tahs front rows were club level players.

Don't agree with the criticism of Peyper. I wouldn't say that either side got away with much more than the other. A few good efforts there from the Tahs. Mitchell was good, not spectacular like he was a few years ago, but very solid. Starting to improve his form again, just needs to get...

Can't believe I just rewatched most of that train wreck French game. A game Beale will want to forget, he made more mistakes in that game than Cooper did vs the Lions. If you want a low risk 5/8, you have to take JOC (James O'Connor), Barnes or Lealiifano from our squad, and not Beale.

By the way, really looking forward to this game. Both the Tahs and Reds offer to give potentially more exciting running games against the Lions than the other teams (including Wallabies) do. That's not necessarily due to the players, but rather game plans. Both the Reds and Tahs games could...

The Tahs are very unlikely to exploit the Lions at the set piece. If they do exploit the Lions, it will come from their up tempo ball in hand tactics. I don't really find that much difference as to the Reds objective as to how the Tahs will tackle it. The Tahs patterns will be a little...

Puzzling. Yes, Youngs was an inside centre. But how do you expect Ulugia to exploit him? Ulugia is freaking good for a third string Super Rugby hooker, but Ulugia is simply not in the same class as Youngs.

So what's the feeling for the Tahs chances here? Better than the Reds? Worse? For mine, Reds fielded a better team even with Horne and Dennis back, but this Tahs team won't be too far behind. The big difference will be in the pack. The bigger issue will be what the Lions roll out. Wings...

It indicates they are out of the 23, or at least starting 15, because they will losing time training with the Wallaby camp to train with the Tahs side prior to the weekend (they will probably fly down to Sydney from Brisbane at least a few days in advance). Being released for the weekend will...

Without doubt, I think Mogg has the best boot on him of our potential back threes. I don't doubt he has the capability to play wing, but he has been pretty much seen mainly at fullback in Super Rugby. Mogg actually reminds me a bit of Latham. Similar characteristics, big boot, deceptively...

Yeah, the next two closest wingers with "experience" were Mitchell and Davies. Davies is in better form than Mitchell, but is a much more limited player. Davies went pretty well against the Lions for the Reds, but his limitations were also on show. Mitchell is (was) a star, but he is not...

I've already activated my wildcard and traded. Figured that the Aus players would drop in value quickly once everyone got around to it, so I did it all as soon as the round was finalised. Just got some decent placeholders in at the moment; will update in two weeks time when SupeRugby...

Yeah, the Aus A vs Lions is the real game missing. It's the only non-test game we won vs the Lions last time, and it would be useful to give the dirtrackers, bench players, and non-match fit players a hit out. I suspect the ARU didn't put it on for one reason: money. The game would have...

Regarding Morahan, he is a very up and down player. When on fire and in form he's fantastic. Good defence, great runner of the ball, decent kicking game, nice chip on the counter. Plenty of involvements, the ball seems to come his way. When not in form, he's just not there. Goes missing in...

I think you will find that even the pro teams fly economy when they fly within Mel/Syd/Bne. For instance, I have been on a flight with the Crusaders team flying economy between Sydney and Brisbane. On most of those flights there is not even enough business class seats to even sit the team.

Not sure on how much of the 23 will be what we'll see against the Wallabies. I think too many of the Lions potential matchday 23 have been forced to play on Tuesday thanks to injury. Maybe they'll pull them off early so they are right for the Tahs though, as Tuesday may not be much than an...

Regarding Cummins, yes he did, then didn't he miss the next game though injury? McCabe did well in what he did against the Rebels, but the weakened Rebels and Lions will be very, very different propositions. Recall McCabe vs Ireland in the 2011 World Cup. I have no problem with what McCabe...

Anyway, this should be taken to the Reds v Lions thread. This thread also seems to be reaching it's natural life expectancy. I don't think there's much more to be said about QC (Quade Cooper) and captaincy than has already been said.