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Geez, that was a young looking Drew Mitchell right behind Latham for that try, too.

Regarding J'OC, I thought he was a little too individual at 10 for the Force. He was individually brilliant, but could not run the backline.

A frustration of mine is a rock stable scrum, not moving, but the attacking team takes 3 or more shunts. Finally the scrum will go down. To me, that's almost like "use it or lose it" in a maul. Italy, for example, I am looking at you. If you have stable ball, you shouldn't be able to keep...

Well, Brown originally was a 7 who converted to 8. Or was that what you were hinting at?

And the last 10 - 15 pages just highlights why we lost. Post after post on our 10, 12, 13 jerseys. What do you guys expect them to do? Our forwards were smashed, the Irish had free reign at the breakdown to disrupt and destroy our ball, the Irish defence was up incredibly fast, and it was a...

Anyone else have a sense of deja-vu: Eden Park in the wet? Anyway, well done Ireland. They won the collisions, they won the breakdown. I posted earlier in the thread about winning the breakdown is halfway to winning the game, and they did that. The Irish big names in the pack stood up and...

Well, technically J'OC is Australian, born in Australia and all that. Dirty Kiwi parents, though, with a dirty Saffa grandparent (to varying degrees of "dirty", mainly the "not actually dirty but it's a smart ass thing to say" classification). Only 5 years in UnZud as a kid, but they still...

Doesn't matter how well or hard you train, match fitness is key. Without getting significant (well, any) game time before the World Cup, you can't expect Palu to make the main 22. He'll need to have a complete blinder and either McCalman or Higgers to be poor to make the bench from here. Like...

And I'm a supporter of backrow balance as well. You can play the 3 best 6s in the world at 7, 6 and 8 and you will get outplayed at the breakdown by a team with a balanced backrow of Super-level players. And as we painfully know as Wallaby supporters, if you are going to get outplayed at the...

Cooper went pretty well in the Reds v Chiefs game in awful conditions in NZ (Waikato?) too, but to be fair, the Reds forwards smashed the Chiefs forwards in that game and made his life easy. I was pleasantly surprised with Simmons off the bench last game. He has a different impact from Sharpe...

Braveheart's version is correct (and a pretty impressive memory) - at the time I was into swimming pretty seriously (training 10 times a week, 3 weekly weight sessions, etc etc) and followed it closely. As BH said, in the end Scott Volkers took the blame for providing a tablet to help Riley's...

Come on, can't anyone else see the irony of a flyhalf accused of (successfully) niggling an openside? It can't be only me, right? Right?! (Anyone here ever played openside? If so, what has the coach told you to do to the opposition's flyhalf?)

At least P. Divvy has given up (temporarily) on wasting one of the 7 reserve spots with an extra prop.

I do the same thing with curly long hair and Auckland.

Agree with PAE's signing, how the Force - who a lacking props - let him go is amazing. On the other hand, it is a bit disconcerting that the guy has left the Force after just a year, but perhaps the west coast was just not for him (or he got a better offer). Why oh why would the Force only...

Would be surprised if it was Pocock - his wife is from WA and I thought they were pretty well settled there. What opensides are actually off contract at the end of this (if that is what WJ meant) year? Gill is off contract next year, and I think Hooper, Fainga'a and (edit:) Saffy are all tied...

Hardtackle - yeah, I reckon some of it was cause they actually did set a bit faster, and the other part of it was the cropping of the game in certain bits to make it fit in their 1.5 hour slots with ads, etc - and they mostly finished 5+ minutes early too.

Yeah, she's up there in the annoying stakes. I just love how hammy it all is, and how cheap the production is. It's gold.

Hmmm, appears I was wrong. Ah well. Was I correct in remembering Magne right, Betsen left perchance? I do remember that Magne would normally wear 7.... Et, pour Manuel, oui! There's two of them - gauche et droit! And that's pushing the limit of my French, sadly...

Which Doctor Who? UK TV recent eps? Or SciFi, which just started showing the Tom Baker years? I've been joyfully inflicting Tom Baker Doctor Who eps upon my gf. Consider it a guilty pleasure.