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3. Palmer. Robbie won't pick him but he's the only Aussie THP not to crumble so far. 2. Moore 3. Little finger Not an easy choice this week.

Careful everyone. Bruce is making it too easy. I smell a rat.

Crusaders play the Highlanders next week and the Sharks the week after, so we'll get a good line on those two. But right now I don't think so. For both teams it will be a bridge too far. Then they've got the bye to freshen up followed by the Bulls at home. I still think, despite the early...

Would you like to have another go???

After tonight I will rate the Brumbies well below the Rebels. They had a real red hot go against the competition leaders. We'll see how the Force go before we finalise the positions.

Nah, Bruce, make them work it out!

Maybe the wiki should preserve some of these classic discussions in a special section. This thread is one for the ages!

AC: Would you like to go back in time and amend your post?

I'm not sure it would have been Dennis, he made 19 tackles. I like it that people were really pissed off about what happened last week and said so. That sometimes has the effect of strengthening the team's backbone after the initial hurt has been absorbed (as in "I'll show you. I'll never...

Finally got over the week from hell coping with injuries to several of my players plus the triple bye. Changes finalised and everything is going as well as it can till I read the preview and find that Taute's been benched! Just like the Force last week I am playing with 14 men. Not happy, Mitch.

Fatprop, You should consider what your posts will do to the blood pressure of Tahs fans before posting such information. I've had to immediately double my medication dosage!

Campbell has played surprisingly well considering his Tah form was underwhelming. And I think Byrnes has not been very good so far. Good to see Davidson get a run from the bench.

With Alexander at LHP they will struggle. Its two very good front rowers against three very good front rowers and there is only one way that will end. Kimlin's lucky he's on the bench this week. Next week he'll get a start as "Saviour of the Pack" Backrow does look to be an improvement...

I expect Barnes will be ready to start against the Cheetahs and if we always pick our no. 1 team regardless then he'd start. But I am not thinking like that - I have a much more squad/team based view. Hangers needs game time, the Cheetahs are not easybeats but they are not the Crusaders. So I...

This article stinks of Growden being backgrounded by one of the Tah coaches. Comments like "there is considerable support at the Waratahs...." lead me to think that he is either just big-noting himself (not an unlikely scenario) or one of the Tahs coaches/selectors has decided that...

I'm not so sure that is grasping at straws. If Shep, Smith and Mafi are running a second line behind the centres they are good enough to penetrate. Maybe not as good as Kurtley, but not completely horrible. Assuming Cummins is at 13, then use him as a crashballer in a similar way to that...

And the other thing that is being ignored is that he was off his feet when he did it, out of the play and therefore an automatic penalty advantage. Except that people are being allowed to play on the ground if the ref considers they are "dominant" at the ruck. So the harder you go at it the...

Alan Jones the shock jock; I know he also has rugby interests but I was more referring to his ability to get to the lowest common denominator people and rile them up to incandescent rage against people who are just trying to do the best job they can. That's the sense in which I meant Spiro is...

Maybe its not very productive but I did feel a whole lot better when I had finished. What was written was the sort of lowest common denominator stuff that shock jocks love to spout. Problem with it is that it seems to gain its own momentum and actually discourages coaches from picking their...

In the sense that a lot of the Tahs should get minus points, someone who doesn't play and therefore gets zero points may be quite high on the rankings.