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Marginal ball forward to Holmes from Cooper 5m out. Was just forward. Reds look dangerous.

Gill off at half time, Buttler on. Will hurt the Reds at ruck time.

Agreed with the comms that the Gill penalty was a bit of a square up for that Genia knock on he didn't call about 1 min earlier. Think the ref has been OK so far, controlled the game well. Some interesting ruck calls, but they've pretty much been marginal. Hopefully the Reds keep this up in...

The other Carney issue was that he was easily led by team mates. In his return to the Roosters, he was led back to drinking by a few team mates and then got sacked by a second team as a result. The Sharks seem to have done a better job at keeping the bad influences at bay. I think that the...

Anyone familiar with the NRL will know (and probably hate) Todd Carney. Similar problem that Beale has in some ways, although Beale's is not as extreme as Carney's. Carney also spent years denying he had an alcohol problem, despite binging and running into trouble with the law many times...

Slipper, Afeaki Moore MMM, Luatua Messam, Labuschagne, Quirk Pretorius Anscombe JOC (James O'Connor), Taps Savea (c), Piuatau, Dagg Savea is my captain. You have been warned. I have some issues for next week due to the high amount of Chiefs and Reds in my team.

Brumbies will probably be just as tired as the Bulls, heading back from SA. Teams normally struggle either their first or second week back. Getting the Bulls towards the end of their southern hemisphere tour is good timing for the Brumbies, but not sure if the floodgates will open. The...

Pretty reasonable looking side, especially at this stage. Some minor changes: I'd bracket Gill with Hooper on the bench, especially if Gill's outstanding form continues and Hooper's form doesn't improve. On form alone, Gill is ahead of Hooper this year. Fotu could also be considered as an...

Then let him go. The ARU needs to hire some number crunchers. Aging injury prone players are simply not worth, say, $300k at this stage of a World Cup cycle when they have other guys like, say, a Higgers, a Hooper and a Gill, etc who will miss out entirely. If a guy like Palu then wants to...

This. The physio at the club I used to play for had heaps of stories about guys who played with no ACL (and I played with a few of them, most of them being huge bruisers who could only Maori sidestep). Best story, though, was of a Gaelic footballer who was supposedly untouchable in his day -...

Wow major screw up from me. Mid-afternoon I realise that Benny A is on the bench, so I undo my transfers. I am, however, really busy from work and put it aside for a bit. 5:29pm I see the open transfers window but it's too late. Same team from last week. Shit.

Bleyendaal and Guildford are both on the bench, with Carter, Crotty, McNicholl and Marshall all starting. Bleyendaal will either replace Carter or Crotty. Dagg, McNicholl or Marshall could be replaced to bring Guildford onto a wing. Might hold onto McNicholl this week, but I think your call...

I'll wait on the Crusaders team before making a decision I think if Guildford and Bleyendahl are back. Issue is I have already used two other subs, but I can undo them as the guys I brought in are currently on the bench. Still tossing up 3M vs Pyle, though. McNicholl and Marshall were both...

OK, some advice required. Which centres to pick out of: JOC (James O'Connor), Taps, Crotty, or Saili? (Saili will cost me a transfer.) Leaning towards Crotty and JOC (James O'Connor) currently. Which outside backs to pick out of: McNicholl, Dagg, Poki, Piutau? Leaning towards McNicholl, Dagg and Piutau currently...

The whole world should just switch to ISO standard 8601 for dates: year-month-day. So, 2013-03-19. Fucking simple and sensible. And it's in order of high to low, making it easy to sort by date: big (year), medium (month), small (day), then time if needed. What the Americans do to dates is...

368, not a good round, but not a terrible round, either. Story of my year so far. Quirk (8), Ancombe (8), and Crotty (9) were my big failures for the week, followed by Flip VDM (14) and Poki (19). Rest of my team were all 24 - 33 in score. Miserably, I had all the wrong Chiefs players...

Different ball, different style of kicking, they seem to favour a more accurate style over length. Latham, for example, had a huge torp, but players these days seem to prefer not to use a torp as it is difficult to kick an accurate torpedo. Regarding the game, was out for family stuff and...

Fair result in the end. Tahs will be gutted though, close game and it was there to win. Congrats to the Cheetahs, two wins on the road. Very difficult for them in the past.

Hooper held up, body height too high. Game over. Cheetahs hold on. 27 to 26.

Lucky penalty. Just enough time for a lineout. Tahs now 45m out. Cheetahs need to watch the penalties.