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In the semi final against SD, after Jerry Y got injured I think, in the last 5 minutes before half time the Uni scrum was totally dominated and only got saved by Walsh not awarding a penalty try when he should have. Props that day as I recall were Tilse at LHP and Ryan at THP. Its for this...

And if I recall correctly, Burke got his marching orders at the end of the year and went to England. I was there that night and I still shudder when I think about it. Every kicker has one of those nights. But Giteau has had three (three!!!) and the coach still thinks he should be the kicker...

The resets stat is wholly useless. You have to watch the scrums and see who dominates. Who gets bad ball or penalties against them. Watching the S14 the Tahs pack lost the scrums in one game, against the Crusaders. For the rest they had parity or dominated, mostly dominated. They were a...

I haven't seen Donald in the ITM cup but I reckon taking him is a big mistake. Slade and Delaney should be in front of him. Looks like he will be the understudy to Carter so all NZ will be praying for an injury free tour for Dan. Braid is a huge plus, they now have a class back-up at 7...

Looking more closely at the list: Reds look to be well balanced and Shepherdson had some good days in Shute (plus the occasional not so good day). I think Link would be thinking of starting Holmes and Shepherdson against the good scrums and Daley and Slipper against the weaker ones and then...

I don't know if Bowen is a good choice, I would have liked to see someone else with a bit more silverware on his resume. Last year the JW's did not cover themselves in glory either. However, I am an ABW man - Anyone But Weismantl. In 2009, the Waratahs backline coaching appeared to be...

Just remember Giteau won it last year. Even he was embarrassed.

It may not have cost Deans his job but it has significantly negatively impacted the Australian results.

They're saving Kaplan up for the Tah and Wallaby games next year.

God I hate losing to the Darkness! Still, it was very close and the dodgy penalty for holding on turned the momentum. Some great play from Stannard and Coleman, and I thought Turner, McCutcheon and Morahan were good also. Turner was too tired at the end, needed to be replaced but he was our...

I seem to recall you saying weeks ago that we would miss Vanderglass hugely and that was on show yesterday. With him we would have been a chance of parity with the Poms, without him I don't think we'll get past the semi's.

It worries me that our back-up 7 is known as someone who can play 6,7 or 8. No one thinks of Pocock as a 6,7, or 8, just as the premium fetcher in Aussie rugby. Deans makes some lousy selection calls but he sees that the back-up 7, Hodgson, is kept for that role. Just wish he saw Brown as the...

Pocock, Hodgson and Brown are all basically 7's, two of whom play out of position in the hope of getting a start. In Hodgson's case it hasn't helped get him a test game much, God knows why. Jenkins needs to move elsewhere, there's just too many class players in front of him at the Force. Best...

Looking at the Beale/Genia drill you may be right. Kurtley was very keen to get the tackler on his back, which in field play would only get you a penalty against.

Do we therefore agree that the casting off of experienced players has added to the misery this year? As Bullrush posted, the stats relate to three years of history, and we last won a game against the Blackness three years ago. Even if I was to accept the inexperience argument, does this mean...

Nice to see him putting Kepu down but if he continues that way he will get palmed off heaps. He must get lower and rely on his support players to come over the top. Thus spaketh the armchair coach

My Fox guide states all game time in Eastern daylight saving time: Monday 11th 1420 - 1920: First slab of pool matches. Australia are on about half way through v Sri Lanka Monday 11th 1920 - 0015: Second slab of pool matches Australia plays the second game v Malaysia and then the second...

There are some limitations to playing this style of rugby. As Blue said, the Bulls seem to play the style as a team pattern, some years better than others. I think the Tahs have tried to play it but when it is not well executed it looks bloody awful - hence some of the vitriol about the Tah...

I would take issue with both the statements highlighted in red. Maafu had one test where he only made two tackles. IMO he is very inconsistent - good one week, awful the next. Baxters value to the Tahs especially is his tight play, he does a mountain of work close to the ruck. And its highly...

I know this is a pet peeve of mine but why oh why does Bryce Lawrence continue to get Australian games, especially ones as important as Australia v France. Give him Australia v Italy, where we can afford a 20 point start. The Australia v France is potentially the highlight game of the tour and...