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Digby was no slouch and served us well for a good while. I take him over sailor any day.

His scrummaging is very poor at lock. I see this as his only downside at lock. But it's a pretty big one.

Your first point was Hooper varied his focus on scavenging. I never said he was a poor scavenger. But it's clear he is more focused on his running game. Yes it is impressive stats for some-one who's main focus is not scavenging. Very impressive actually. Yet hitting rucks, tracking the...

Your kidding right? He has played the same running game his entire career. This is why he gets so much back-lash on these forums.

OK. Here we go again. Not sure what your definition of a one-dimensional player is, but I see Pocock as an X-factor player. Can X-factor players be one-dimensional? Hooper has X-factor in attack, does his job on defence. Pocock has X-factor in defence, does his job on attack. Just because...

Hooray its the Pocock and Hooper debate again! TWAS, shall we start from the beginning or shall we continue from where we left off last time? One dimensional? Don't even get me started!!! Pocock > Hooper. Now lets move on shall we...

Our weakest point is our bench. Especially our back-up props.

I'll tell you what's wrong with our locks. Consistency. Simmons only recently finding the form you described. Carter has already had a few poor games. Horwill struggling to find form. To be fair I don't think they are as bad as some people make out. Carter is still pretty fresh for Test...

No one questioned him at the Brumbies because he was the new kid on the block. We didn't expect him to make turnovers every game, so when he did he was essentially exceeding expectations. Now it's a different story. He is Captain of the wallabies and will be compared with Pocock, Smith, McCaw...

Haha I do enjoy rustling your jimmies if you didn't notice! Look to be serious I agree. Hooper definitely the front runner in the wallabies with the current squad. Although it's interesting you say Hooper would be less effective at the Force. Which is true given the points you made. But that...

Sure, but according to stats Hodgson is also a high try-scoring open-side. Teams who attack more score more tries, that's a simple fact! Just imagine how many opportunistic tries Hodgson would have scored form the back of a ruck - since the Tahs would have more rucks close to line given their...

I'm actually worried Speight is coming in too soon from injury. His assets are his speed, footwork, power, agility - all heavily effected by a hamstring injury. Hope I'm wrong.

I agree with everything except for the assumption that Hodgson would be less effective at the Tahs. I imagine he would have absolutely carved it up at the Tahs.

Like I mentioned before, he did realise it against THE ALL BLACKS! IN THEIR HOME TURF! I don't think I have seen a performance like that by any Fly-half in the world in the last 3 years? Cruden, Carter, Sexton, Steyn? They haven't played that well in the last 3 years have they? Then he...

Yes the Foley/To'omua combo lacks spark, creativity and is well pretty one-dimensional. Foley/Lilo - worked great last time Cooper/To'omua - worked great last time Cooper/Lilo - given how dominate Lilo was in defence last game, Just as good as To'omua IMO, this could be even better then the...

This is on the assumption Hooper is being rested. And Hodgeson is being picked over senior players like Horwill, Genia, Cooper, Robinson, Higgers for Captain.

Settle down mate. Cooper has made MOTM performances against the best team in the world. People go-on about him because at his best he is probably the best fly-half in the world. What has Foley achieved? A few solid performances and few nothing performances. People are backing Coopers...

I think its a great statement that hard work and consistent performance is rewarded. He is basically saying a second choice 7 who works his ass off is valued more then a first choice player who is struggling to find form. I think its a great call.

WTF.. this is shit. Guess I won't be seeing the game then! God damn rugby and pay tv is killing the audience.

It's not realistic to just say our forward pack will start winning the collision because that's the way Chieka wants us to plays. There is no Douglas, Palu, TPN, Potegeiter - all players who are great in the collision. We can't expect the likes of Carter, Simmons, Hooper, Fardy, Fainga to...