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With Higgenbotham gone and Hanson/Siliva at the rebels, I think Jones's lineout prowess will only improve. Currently I see the forwards as: 1. Slipper 2. Moore 3. Kepu 4. Skelton 5. Simmons 6. Fardy 7. Pocock 8. Higgenbotham 16. TPN 17. Sio 18. Holmes 19. Jones 20. Palu/Hooper 24. Hanson...

I think Dennis misses because you can only carry one "small" lock, and Jones takes that spot. I also think Fardy, Palu, Higgenbotham and McCalman also take the 4 non-openside backrowers spots. But all it would take is an injury to one of those 5, and he'd be in the squad, and from there, I'd be...

I'll admit more or less complete ignorance of the week to week performances of the SS teams, but if that sort of scoreline is been occurring semi-regularly over the past 3 or so years removing Penrith from the competition would have to be considered a legitimate and potentially appropriate option.

Gits may have gotten a big boost from this game as well. No left foot kickers has hurt here as well. Plus all the lineout stuff that everyone with a thimblefull of common sense has been saying.

Obviously almost everything is to the referees discretion, but I thought that the rewarding of a penalty try should always* be accompanied by a yellow card. *For scrums, the yellow card normally seems to come one scrum before the penalty try.

As soon as he decided the arm was swinging, it had to be a yellow and a penalty try. I didn't think that it was the right call, but the consequences are correct for that call.

Here we go Big call to be made. Would be harsh, but not necessarily wrong.

Get Lance on, Foley is struggling as a solo playmaker for general play.

Magic Man @ 10 for the Vics? :P

The Wallabies will not lose any matches by playing McCalman, Palu or Higgenbotham ahead of Vaea the entirety of next season. Vaea playing 560 minutes of NRC would be better for him and the Wallabies in 2016 and beyond. Of course, he'd still be a good option if 2 of Dennis, Fardy, McCalman...

As if he'd leave Clermont. For mine, Sam Windsor is the one you guys should be after. 27, well experienced, sigmed a 1 year deal for Ulster. If you'd match his wages, I reckon that you could probably secure some sort of release from Ulster, given he's a NIQ, and Piutau is not getting his NZRU...

Looking through the European tournaments, Ireland are still technically a chance to qualify for the Olympics. Would you look at that. Won the Division C trophy and got into the Division B tournament. Then won the Division B tournament and have qualified for the European Repêchage to qualify...

Key advantage we have in Sponsorship is that Murrayfield is owned by the SRU. So all the money that goes towards stadium rights over here, that goes straight into the pockets of government or private owners goes right back into SRU coffers for us. The Southern States and regional U20s...

OK. Currently the only development the SRU does is provide about 16 blokes annually (Between 18 and 23 year old) Elite Development player contracts, which gives them a "Professional Wage" and allocates them to either Glasgow, Edinburgh or the Sevens program. At this stage, I'd reckon only the...

Next Lions game needs to be at the G. 56.6k in 2001, 56.7k in 2013. According to ESPN, biggest ever Lions crowd was 90k at Ellis park in the 50s. I reckon you could break that.

You forgot Gus Hamilton there EF. Obviously the balance of the team will depend on who's selected from the Soup as well, but I don't think at this stage it would be unfair to suggest that Fereti Sa'aga, Gus Hamilton, Sione Taufa, Sione Tuipulotu and RLM would be in the final squad. The EPP...

The thing other nations have going for them is Academies. The Welsh and Irish regions all have academies. So do the English and French teams in both their First and Second divisions. South Africans do it for the Currie Cup sides and I think the Kiwis do it for their ITM Cup sides. Don't know...

So Greg Bauer, OJ Noa, Martin Naufahu, Joe Kamana, Tuia Tuiatui, Rueben Rolleston and Sefanaia Naivalu are all gone from last year's local players, for various reasons. A few of the boys from the EPP are also not there, the ones that strike me are Ta Hosea and Billy Gray, any news on those...

RJ Sa'aga and Ta Hosea from VIC & Aus Barbars are both '96 birthdays as well.

It's not really a negative strategy, it's just firmly on the side of common sense. Against England for example, Parling will just go head to head with Simmons, and Lawes will plonk himself at 2 to disrupt the short option. With Vaea, this would only leave 1 option "free", either Skelton or...