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Lee, Agree 100%. I'm watching the 98 Bledisloe winning test on Fox now, and back then Gregan could do it too. He got a horrible ball skewing out of a ruck and hit Bernie right in the breadbasket with a no-look reverse pass. Beautiful to watch. Nothing to do with a new Tah coach I know, but.....

Interesting PB that you see the Bulls as better than the Stormers. On what I've seen so far I am more impressed with the Stormers, their loss to the Brumbies was a close run thing and they have beaten some good teams so far. They are proving to be the defensive champions so far, way ahead of...

Lee I trust that there's just a hint of irony in your post. I started my love affair with the Waratahs watching them and the Sydney comp on ABC TV, with Cyril Towers commentating. (Pity they couldn't clone him to replace the rubbish Fox commentators now.) My best memories are watching 1) Ken...

Re: Tahs v Blues Which is why he's starting and Mowen is on the bench. Mowen brings better running skills (not in evidence last week though) and attacking the other teams lineout (because Mumm won't) and is therefore a better team choice overall. But if you want someone to pull down Jerome...

IF Cheika wants to be the next Wallaby coach (maybe he doesn't but its the Everest for Aussie coaches) I reckon there are two paths. One is to put perennial underperformers Stade on top of French rugby and keep them there till Deans goes home and then return home as the best overseas Aussie...

I agree with the sentiments. I'd start Holmes this week with those same instructions and wait till next week to give McKibbin some game time against the Cheetahs. On performance so far I'd rate Horne with Hangers and Turner as not too bad considering what they're working with. What I think is...

I haven't seen those games (I live in Adelaide now so I have to live on the reports of others) but what I have seen from all the S14 games on Fox tells me that the Tahs are not functioning like a champion team, or anything remotely resembling it. Players who were playing well a year or two ago...

To back up what Langthorne said: Mowen was benched for Dennis while playing outstanding rugby. He's got to feel absolutely gutted, anyone would. He was on the bench for game one when he should have started too. During that time, Mumm got a spot in the pack when his form did not deserve it. So he...

Agree with Riddler about the bench. McCaffrey still hasn't got on and last night Dennis could have had a rest with Mowen going to 6. It could not have been worse. Holmes should have come on at half time and Beale got 10 minutes of defensive practice. Caldwells mongrel in tight would have...

The Force came to play this week by throttling the Tahs in defense and the Tahs had no answer. Wish they'd played like that last week and put the northeners to the test. (And don't tell me they did!) Hodgson was huge and is now number 2 behind Pocock. If Brown and Pocock had been on the park...

Hodgson 3 Staniforth 2 The intercept showed great anticipation of where to be Tyrrell 1 He threw better this week. Takes guts to come back OK from a game like that.

Mitchell 3 TPN 2 Would be 3 if the lineout worked better Halangahu 1 Honorable mention to Waugh. Everyone else played pretty poorly, the gameplan was all wrong again. Force did not commit many to the breakdown, particularly centrefield. Not very long ago Tahs had the best maul in the comp. but...

Most posters think Gits played well but his defence was terrible. One try went in solely because he missed, and that wasn't his only miss.

Agreed Kepu is a good LHP who can cover for THP from the bench. We have two genuine THP's, Baxter and Palmer. Baxter's injured and Palmer's going. But if we are serious about winning the last S14, we will have to play Palmer in the run-on team if Baxter is injured. Forget how much humble pie has...

Maafu 3 Edmonds 2 Hand 1 No backs distinguished themselves apart from the Blues backs.

There goes our best chance of a S15 title!

But now injury has put us into the position that we should have been in anyway - McCaffrey and Palmer getting game time against some of the weaker teams. But Palmer is lost to us next year and the time spent on the park only benefits the Brumbies. Conservative short-sightedness rules.

I think the reason that Sheehan is starting is that he's an abrasive little so-an-so and will want some payback for being given the shove.

And he should be starting this week to let Cliffy recover properly and to get him some experience!

So, who's in and who's out of favour? Joco Peyper gets two games, one of which is the Brumbies/Chiefs game, which is a really crucial one for both teams. Is he any good? Jonkers and Joubert both get a run - Jonkers particularly disappoints me (see Bulls/Waratahs, where he ignored certain...