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We do have Cruze, yes. He, LT and Jeffries didn't play against QC (Quade Cooper).

We'll be missing Jones, Shipperley and English this week, who've all been selected for the Barbarians squad to play Samoa, alongside Mikey Harris and Luke Burgess. From last weeks side, City are also losing Gill to the Barbarians, plus Higgers and Kerevi are travelling to the USA alongside McMahon.

Bit late for that mate.

That makes much more sense. Was at the far side to the cameras, and commentary was just as useless. Thanks for that.

Samo was contracted this season, ineligible I would have thought.

Meehans got a much nicer boot though.

Super players in general stood up. Fatty Johansen was excellent, as were both QC (Quade Cooper) props. Jones was brilliant when he came on, and Samo was good for the first 30 minutes of the first, and first 25 of the 2nd. Greene controled the game very well for QC (Quade Cooper). Jordy Reid was the standout backrower. Not...

Got away with that one. Debreczeni needs to nail his kicks, missed 4 I think. Need a bit more power in the pack, hopefully Timani, Jeffries and a start for Jones will help that. I'd also switch English into Outside Center and play Ili or Marsters on the wing. All up, great game to watch.

2 wide defence killing us.

Fatty just steamrolling the Queensland Centers.

Passes that are 2 wide of the ruck are cutting the Rising defence apart.

Sa'aga dragged, Tyler on. Fair enough, he's not a tighthead, and has been worked over a bit.

Meehan back on, try immediately results. Rising score again, 26-29 with kick to come.

No fluency in play without Meehan. Back 3 didn't cover the quick turnover well enough and Fa'agase over in the corner after a couple of deft touches from Greene Debreczeni throws a big intercepted pass, but its called offside.

Colby got screwed out of a turnover, albeit Country deserved that try off their set piece dominance. Think our props are weak, but missing the ridiculously massive Jeffries/Neville/Jones/McMahon/Timani pack that helped the forwards so much last season.

Meehan off for the deliberate knock down. Thought it went backwards off, which isn't penalisable unless it goes dead. But fair enough, killed the play.

No Toby or PAE sees the scrum significantly weaker than last season. Losing Metcher in the first 4 minutes can't have helped either.

Went to Munster, and normally was in and around the 15 and the 23. But Munster chose not to renew his contract, so I dunno how his objective form was.

Here are the highlights anyhow. I understand why they pick Billy V, but I wouldn't, he's very very good, but he thinks he's better than he is, and consequently tries to do everything himself and does some very stupid stuff, the flying high tackle, not listening to the ref at the breakdowm...

Certainly depends what they intend to use it for. If it's a pre-super thingymabob, then rendering non - development internationals ineligible is reasonable. But if it's just as a reward for form and/or playing to win and/or promoting the NRC, there's no reason that players like Coolican...