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Anyone have Cooper in their fantasy team?

24 - 3 after 36.

AWH in after some Cooper magic 5m out from the try line. Plenty of sustained Reds pressure until Cooper called for his chances and made it count. Reds close to the bonus point victory, Rebels struggling.

Hmmm, I have Pyle in my FR team. Boo.

Simmons has been very good for the Reds too. Genia gets the penalty 5m out, and takes the lineout. The Reds want the bonus point.

How big is Gerrard's boot? He had some massive kicks for touch from penalties earlier as well.

Cooper is in sublime form too.

That ball was definitely out the same channel. Poor call from the touchie who should have called it. Some magical hands though from the Reds though including a nice chip and regather from Harris. Agree with the poster above. Centres who pass and attack. Those riskier plays are what wins...

Whoa fantastic try Reds! But...that ball at the scrum came out the same channel. How the hell did the touchie miss that?

We don't. (Well, most of us, a couple people here aside.) I think those two would've been the walk up starters for the Wallabies in the June internationals if we could pick them. But I don't think we should therefore choose to play a defensive combination at centre and believe that it is...

Anyway, my point is we need to have more attacking ability from our centres to beat NZ. If you look at the teams from the June internationals, NZ's combination of SBW and Smith looks a lot more dangerous, and can supply their dangerous outside backs with ball. Simply, NZ's attack (in most...

Actually, Rugby Stats highlights the problem we had at 13 in attack for the first two games, third game showed an improvement. Horne's running stats (from Rugby Stats): Game 1: 76 minutes, 2 runs in the open for 19m, total 2 runs Game 2: 82 minutes, 4 runs in the open for 58m, 2 runs from...

According two ESPN Scrum, Horne did not beat a defender in the first or third test. From memory, he also didn't in the second test, but ESPN Scrum didn't provide stats for that. A grand total of 0 offloads, too. http://www.espnscrum.com/wales-tour-2012/rugby/match/155533.html...

qwerty trying to justify how you mystifyingly gave points to Horne for being one of Wallabies best players? I know your manlove goes deep for him, but come on. Horne's current penetrative ability was shown by the amount of tackles he broke in the Welsh series, not how many tries he scored by...

My issue with Simmons is his inconsistency from game to game. He just can go missing the next game after looking like he could belong at test level the previous game. And agree that we don't have a second test level lock to partner Sharpe with Horwill out. All the others are being picked on...

Firstly, Barnes tends to take the ball to the line, and be involved in rucks, meaning he is often not available when there is sometimes quick ball. Actually, I'd say there is often times in games when your flyhalf is out of the game and you want someone who can make the right decision and throw...

Thorn is much smaller than Timani, and had a much bigger physical presence, which is my point. A lot of the justifications are about his physical presence, outside of his runs I failed to see a bigger physical than Simmons offered off the bench against Scotland. Really, there's just been some...

Yup, my preferred combinations are similar: 10. Cooper 12. Barnes 13. McCabe (marginally at this point) OR 10. Barnes 12. JOC (James O'Connor) 13. McCabe (marginally) Beale getting back into the swing of it does gives up more options though, and at least gives us the ability to carry two of the three...

Hope Taps isn't rushed back after a broken collar bone. He should play a couple games of club football first too. Seeing as the Reds may not make the final, I know that this would probably mean he won't be seen at SupeRugby level year, but I am happy with that if it means he isn't rushed back...

Lindommer; oh come on, I recall you blaming the 2007 WC performance on the amount of Reds in the side! In reality, we all know it was because of the high amount of Tahs. Regards to Timani: I am amused at the sudden "rock-shifter" descriptions. Most of his cleanouts were no more accurate than...