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2019 - the year of the Brumby. Looking at the Brumbies' squad for 2019, we should be expecting a far better outcome than was achieved in 2018. For my money, they are strong enough to take out the Aussie conference and if their attacking mindset that we saw at the end of the 2018 season...

A journeyman No 10 or 15. Played in Japan and then for the Rebels, Tahs and now Reds.

Some absolute beauties have been lost over the years. Fardy left at least partly, perhaps mainly, because he was omitted from the Wallabies; Tomane was rated the No 1 Winger in the Wallabies when he left; Mowen was the Wallabies' captain and left partly because of a failure by the ARU to offer...

Rory was the outstanding lock in the Aussie Super teams in 2018. Only Rodda in the last few tests really matched his standard. I have no doubt at all that Cheika continually omitting him had a bearing on his decision to leave. He will be sorely missed by the Brumbies, although I have great...

BJ, Rory on a three year deal, so is Richie only short term? If so, any chance he will be back for 2020 or later?

I have heard a couple of news reports now where it has been stated that it will be up to Johnson and Cheika together to determine the future of the Assistant Coaches. Indeed, I think I heard Clyne say precisely that in one interview. It would seem to me that Johnson has absolutely no first...

I am bemused by the thoughts that any, or even all, of the Assistant Coaches can be held responsible for the Wallabies' inept displays this year. The Wallabies have been on the slide, form wise, skills wise, game plan wise etc, since the 2015 RWC and the only common denominator is Michael...

Ruan Smith as bench LHP or hooker? Or just another case of mistaken Number?

First up, it is Isi, not Isa. Isi had a quiet start to 2018 but once the decision to move to Melbourne in 2019 was announced, he showed the sort of form we mostly think will see him start for the Wallabies. I fully expect with a full pre-season at the Rebels, he will be a standout next year...

Probably a long way short of being considered far and wide as a great player though, FP. I have to say that I haven't rated his general performances at all and imo his form didn't warrant inclusion in the Wallabies' squad.

Not sure this is quite true. Apparently the players' review after the EOYT was not totally complimentary towards Cheika. Specifically, there was unrest at the amount of heavy work in training. Would reinforce perceptions that training is more important to Cheika than game results, and would also...

KOB, my take on it (and I have no inside info at all) is that neither Raelene nor Clyne were ready for the contingency where the rest, or majority, of the Board had had enough and wanted Cheika to go because his results were simply not up to scratch and they had at last given up on THE PLAN for...

Then it was changed to allow players who had signed for Super Rugby in the following season to be picked (Vickerman and a half back whose name escapes me) and after that changed to bring the Giteau Rule into play. If it's up to the coach at the time, will be interesting to see if Larkham (according to...

Sems soe Sullie.

FP, precisely when and where has KH been a great player in Rugby? I'm sure there are many who thought he was at least approaching great in League, but he has shown very little that can be described as anywhere near "great" since he started at the Reds.

The news reports on ABC all day were that the review report had been delivered to all Board members on Friday, and that it contained among other things comments from the players indicating problems within the camp. Maybe things are even worse than any of us has suspected over the past year or...

David Pocock and Michael Hooper might be examples, though probably not most recent.

Just saw the tail end of the world's shortest press conference where Clyne stated that the board is going through the process of its review and will be done by Christmas. Hope he was simply being smart arse with the last comment.

I'm sure I saw Serge Blanco score against us from inside the French in goal. But the point about the NZers is well made. The Crusaders scored the first, and possibly the only, 9 point super try in the WRC.

Perhaps not if they're playing essentially different games RY. Any chance of MLR adopting the GRR rule changes?