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Ioane was there, but redid his shoulder. Shepherd is there, and has been playing a lot more winger than fullback for a while. You can argue that both Ioane and Shepherd were specialist wingers who can cover other positions (13 for Ioane and 15 for Shepherd). Turner should be called in for...

Paris Tah - it (the first All Black try) looked suspicious in the first replay, but would've looked fine live to the ref. It's often too hard for them to pick that sort of stuff up and you just have to live with it. I was blowing up more about the try where AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) is tackled, and Smith doesn't...

I think that there's little doubt the All Blacks are a better team than us. But I think we can do better than the scoreline suggests. Remembering the game, what really stood out to me as key differences between the two sides: 1. Restarts The All Blacks' restarts were, simply, awesome...

NZ 26 - 19 Aus

I don't mind Tony Johnson, and John Drake used to be awesome until his untimely death. Unfortunately, Grant Fox never really filled Drakey's big boots and tends to be biased when his role calls for him not to be, and Fox tends to misread forward play a bit too much. I hate Gordon Bray and will...

Nielsen was the Storm's replacement for Chambers. Gone fairly well, as dobduff11 indicated. Thought he did a bit better on attack for the Storm than Chambers did mainly due to his better pace and agility than Chambers, but Chambers was very young. Didn't realise Nielsen was that old! No idea...

I hardly think that rich people buying themselves out of trouble (or more precisely, paying off "victims") is hardly a new or amazing concept, however disagreeable it might be.

I think it would be really interesting to know which league players played union as a junior, and vice versa. And also which players played both league and union. Prime example is Wally Lewis - I disagree he honed his kicking in union. Lewis was a league junior, his dad was a league coach...

Dave Taylor tends to be lazy though. It would be damn hard for a league forward making the transition, and I bet you'd never get a league forward moving into the front row of union. The difference between league and union forwards is that their type of effort and skills are pretty different -...

So did anyone who agreed with JP feel like reaching for the steel wool? "Finkle is Einhorn...Einhorn is Finkle..."

Well, theoretically, acceleration at the point of impact does not matter, if it is in a straight line. However, after the point of impact it may matter if the method of producing the acceleration (ie leg drive) can continue to be used by the player. But really, straight line accelerating and...

First thing you need to do with Cross is get him running straighter. He has a bad habit of always looking to get on the outside of his man - not such a problem, unless you run across field every time and severely cut down on the space available to the outside men. From a 13 you can tolerate it...

Units of momentum are in (mass * distance/time unit) - or (mass * speed) assuming we are in a straight line, whereas if you use kentic energy, then your units are in energy, or joules. I think that kinetic energy (or 0.5mv^2) is correct to use instead of momentum, as it shows the amount of...

Shepherd has signed with the Force for two more years apparently.

VuliVuli played for the Reds? And a pro player being criticised on a forum? Why, I never.

I don't have a problem with Beale and think he has a lot of potential, but despite the same problem in defence he shares with Cooper and J'OC, I would like to see him revert less often to the low percentage chip kick. If there's space on the counter by all means - Latham was a master of it...

We're digressing here, but the Tahs scored because of several absolutely stupid penalties from the Reds, at least two of which were by Shaw. Including one for detatching early from a 5m scrum from the Tahs line, on a Tahs feed where the Tahs scrum was under pressure. Link dropped Shaw because...

JP's an idiot...missed the rugby club last night. JP has been shooting his mouth off a lot this year, I was cringing at what he was saying. What did he say? The worst part of supporting the Reds for me was moving to Sydney right as the Reds performances start to drop off in the early 2000s...

This is pretty big revisionism, which is what is going on in this thread right now. We had dirt trackers in 2009 to try out players, which is what they did. Wykes did not show enough in S14 2009 to even be considered for selection. Wykes was a lot better this year. If Wykes WAS selected last...

I tend to think a lot of what you have offered that Deans could have or should have done is great in hindsight. I don't think a lot of it was possible, though. To me, trying Mumm and Sharpe with the big munter Chisolm was the right way, but now in hindsight we know that Sharpe got injured...