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Another Rebels drive from the 5m lineout, but the Blues stop it. TH prop looked to come around the side, tackles the Rebels player with the ball and turns it over. Blues run it back to halfway and the Rebels force them into touch 45m from their own line.

Rebels with a lineout 15m out from the Blues line, 37 gone. Strong maul, Luatua runs around in the side. That looked cynical, was right in front of the ref too. That sort of stuff is close to a card. Stupid play Luatua.

Lucky Piutau made that mistake - Piutau pretty much gave away the penalty by instantly showing he did the wrong thing. Rebels need the break to settle down. Rebels attack a bit static now. Saffy just flattened someone. Saffy's been strong with the ball since he has been back.

Wow, how bad is the Rebel defence this game? Very depressing. Blues are breaking tackles and offloading way too easily. Doesn't help when Phipps gifts them the ball.

I like two things about Cooper this year, opposed to other years: 1. He takes the ball into defence, and holds onto it (usually) to settle - only a few times this year has he forced a rubbish pass in contact, where in other years he'd throw it away 2. His defence - some great front on...

Reds piggies have really looked aimless at times. Horwill being back really helped, but without Horwill (and Gill a bit) they seem to lack leaders in the pack.

Good effort by the Sharks in the second half. Reds went to sleep, Sharks stepped up in the forwards and dominated them. If the Reds do that next week they'll lose. Sharks also tried to force the ball too much, they had a bit more patience in the second half. In contrast, Reds forced...

Oh, the Sharks were poor, no doubt about it and made it too easy on the Reds. Agree with that. Sharks' defence was flat and Reds made ground way too easily with short passes off the ruck.

Hard to see how he could've exerted himself on the second half, to be honest. If you don't have the ball and your forwards give it away too much, what else can you do?

That's a little churlish on the Reds' first half performance, don't you think? I'd say the Reds in the second half have been well off, and the Sharks improved. It's easy to say that of any team's forwards when they get up. The Reds forwards have dominated a few teams around the ruck in the...

QC (Quade Cooper) has barely had the ball in the second half, to be fair. Genia has been very keen to kick away turn over ball, or the forwards are keen on losing it. This kick will be important from Quade.

Reds are there own worse enemies in the second half, though. Forwards have been way too loose, and they lost all structure. They've let the Shorks back into it.

Yeah, Buttler was fine to me to. Looks like Jackson has had enough of the Reds at ruck time, too.

I am in a similar boat, but the last week was high scoring. Not having a good fantasy year this year!

Miserable 416 points because I moved house and forgot to change my team from the previous week in time. Had Pyle on the bench to top it off, and had Slipper and Dagg (who were both benched) as starters.

Do you mean Stu Dickenson? Handed out 3 yellows plus a red (which was actually two yellows to the same player) in an all Kiwi derby in 2011. Said something like "you are ruining my game" to the teams, or something to that effect, due to the messy breakdowns. That caused a bit of a fan backlash...

Yeah, him and Mark Geyer do with some things (they host the MMM breakfast show with Gus Warland). They have heaps of rumours and news on League. Some rumour they wing a bit, others they have inside info. Personally, I dislike all three of them, but I like the music MMM plays (formative years...

Yeah. You would expect the highest paid outside backs to be Inglis, then guys like Slater (although I hear the Storm pays less than other clubs would pay, like the Broncos of old), Hayne and Stewart. I'd be shocked if an NRL club would pay Folau on the same level as those guys. And as said...

You're confusing him with his brother there, I think.

You mean the Peter Principle? It would explain a bit if the Tahs management has already reached the corollary for the Peter Principle.