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And agree the line up definitely looks better than last week.

Some shocks for me there: No Gits, McCabe and AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) centre pairing remains (not sold on this combo yet) Simmons over Sharpe Alexander keeps his spot McCalman lucky as well there. Samo bit unlucky to not make the squad A. Finger gets the lone bench spot, but really every spot is covered in the...

I know there's plenty of people here currently upset at Deans, Williams, and co., but let's try to keep all the coach slanging in the coach slanging thread. Just saves the same stuff being repeated in three different locations (sorry, I know I am guilty of doing similar stuff too). The mods...

Pretty sure there have been fatalities since the jet age, as I said, just no crashes. Besides, I was correcting the myth, not besmirching their record. Second or third oldest airline I think, and a damn good safety record, albeit one that is has slowly slid over the last decade. You don't get...

Gagger; only game I disagree with is with the Baabaas (or exhibition games). Otherwise show respect, take the 3.

Sorry, should have been more specific. QANTAS have had fatalities that were there fault on aircraft - but really only due to luggage compartments malfunctioning and flying luggage hitting people in the head (could've sworn that story was from Snopes, but cannot find it). Otherwise, here's a...

With Robinson and Slipper gone, I don't have too much of a problem with Baxter. He's a solid scrummager now, and will be in the tight play - both he will do better than Alexander. Only other options are Daley and Cowan - Daley better around the field and in tight, but his scrummaging is just...

Being able to watch the Reds games live I got an insight into actually how well Cooper runs the backline with Genia. Both don't lack confidence, and they are in positions that need it. If Cooper doesn't like the quality of ball on attack, he just won't take it, and instead screams at his...

I know some subbies guys who play with no ligaments in (one of each) of their knees at all. All are forwards, of course. They heavily strap them for training and games, and can't step off that leg at all - they just run straight. Now, this is subbies, not test rugby. I am not a sports...

Please no more x forward should be in the backs, or y back should be in the forwards. There's no way, without a season or more of rugby under their belt, that they could adjust to the defensive and technical requirements of the positions. Plus Higgers is a blindside, and just doesn't have the...

Especially Wykes, but also Pyle, wouldn't have helped us in the tight and in the rucks where we struggled in that game. Timani was like Davies, good Super season and deserved a crack. Both deserve another shot later on too, but not before the WC - it's a WC year, there's limited preparation...

Anyone else think that Vickers should be putting in full 80 minute efforts for Syd Uni? Two reasons: 1) How is he ever supposed to get match fit by 20 min cameos? If Vickerman is on the bench, and Sharpe or Horwill go down in the first 10 or 20 (and both can be rather injury prone), I don't...

I would love actually to see something similar to what #1 Tah said, but limit each halfbacks to the second row of the other team. Some refs (or rather, some scrumhalfs) get away with murder by being all over the number 8 / opposing scrumhalf as they pick up the ball.

BTW, anyone else dumb enough like me to watch the replay on currently on Fox Sports 2? Bemused that after I had my post above about the makeup of the Wallabies side, Kafer had a similar comment about the side.

The closest Ireland came to 2nd was a brief flirtation with 4th, from what I can see. They were the 2nd NH team to France, who spent a decent amount of time at 2nd thanks to their 6N effort. So that is where Balls is probably getting confused. This pretty much goes with my memory of Ireland...

When exactly were Ireland ranked 2nd? I am struggling to find it, looking here: http://www.irb.com/rankings/archive/year=2007.html

Ouch, can't expect a player who has been gone that long to come straight back into a test team, either. If that is the case then the initially reported 4 - 6 weeks were pretty inaccurate.

Actually, I am with Gnostic, I don't particularly like your signature. But I will cede it is technically correct and your right to have it, and have no problems whatsoever with it remaining.

On a slightly related topic, there were 6 starters in the side from the lacklustre Brumbies, who not only were our 4th best team for the year, but also had internal team issues for a lot of the season, including the early season sacking of there coach and the replacement coach having a very...

It is technically true because it says "Super 14". The Tahs were the best performed Aus Super 14 team. They are just not the best performed Aus Super rugby team. So technically, it is true. (I am not too sure on if Hickey won the Aus Super 14 coach of the year twice, but I assume he did.)