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I disagree. AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) at least occasionally runs good lines and makes a break (look at the try last year against SA). He also has a decent right hand fend. Which is more then both McCabe and Fainga which havnt offered much in attack. I cant remember either of them breaking the line. Im worried. I hope...

Cant wait for the game! There's going to be some bloody good key match ups! The best will be Pocock Vs McCaw. Lots of match ups in the forwards will be interesting like Kaino Vs Rocky, we will def need Rocky to be firing! Same goes for Samo. Locks look even but I think the ABs got the edge in...

3. Pocock 2. JOC (James O'Connor) 1. McCabe

I wonder who is going to call the line-outs? Probably not a big deal but I thought thought Sharpe was the caller with the Sharpe/Vickerman lock pairing and Simmons was the caller for the Horwill/Simmons pairing. Hopefully it does not affect our line-out ability.

Everyone is forgetting that Ioane MUST BE IN THE TEAM in order to defend to 10 channel. I do agree Mitchell was in better form before he got injured, but his defence is not as good as Ioanes and I highly doubt he would have the same success in the 10 channel Ioane has, in fact he even expressed...

Very weird there is no openside, Should have picked either Samo or McCalman not both just in case. If Pocock does go down I would say we would need to send out an SOS call to George Smith.

Missed the game. I have 3 questions 1. How did Higgers go? 2. Did Elsom silence his critics or fall short once again? 3. Did Samo make an impact off the bench?

Ok. you made a good point, the captaincy is not a week by week decision. But I still stand by the fact that he had his chance and post RWC we should be looking for a new one. Whether Elsom has a blinder or not this weekend... He will still be a poor captain. If he is still Captain post RWC I...

But what happens when you find out he is a poor Captain and you have guys in the team that would now make great captains? and proven they are good captains eg Horwill. Is it the logical choice to stick with a poor captain, because it is important to give the captaincy to some-one for long...

To make it clearer my argument in the first post is that Elsom should not be captain, however he is still a good player and should be in the team. But he should definitely not be allowed to walk straight in ahead of Higgers, he should have to fight his way in.

They bring up some very good points. I agree he doesn't deserve his spot ahead of Higgers or even Samo. He is far from an inspirational leader but at the time he was appointed captain he was probably the best choice, Sharpe wasn't playing the greatest and everyone else was injured (Mortlock...

Its not all the coach. NZ is full of solid consistant players. nearly ALL our players are prone to flakiness. Sure on their day they are world class, but they also have off days when they are below average. NZ players are always either solid or great. Ours are Superb or complete ass. Theres...

3. Horwill 2. Digby 1. Kepu

I dont agree that he his. He is certainly one of the most experienced but personally I think an inexperienced JOC (James O'Connor) would be pretty damn good also.

There is probably a slim chance for Benn Robinson being fit for RWC, But what happens if he is? Do we simply shift Kepu back to the other side of the scrum? As i would much rather have Kepu over Alexander these days. But now that Kepu has been playing on the other side all this Test season...

Its pretty simple in my eyes. This is the last chance we have to see if Vickerman is up to Test standard (not playing against a "b" team). Sharpe is a proven Test lock, I dont think this is a sign he will not be considered for the RWC. I think Deans is just weighing up this options by seeing how...

Not sure why their is such a massive uproar over the Hodgson/Beau debate. Hodgson is a GOOD player and is a probably the 2nd best pilferer in Aus behind Pocock, Beau is very physical and great at being disruptive at the breakdown. But they are both miles behind Pocock. Pocock is arguably the...

@Reddy.... I highly doubt we would have greater depth then the ABs come RWC. They seem to play with the same intensity and team work no matter who is on the field. I think the only position lacking would be a decent back-up for Dan Carter.

Well he clearly needed Rest for the Samoa game. Then the Boks send over a "B" team where we would not be able to properly assess whether he is still capable to play at the highest Test level intensity. McCalman is also the incumbent and deserved a shot to stake his claim, in this case I don't he...

Elsom or Higgers, not fussed either way, all i want to see is SAMO over McCalman!