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Of all teams in the WC, you would have thought that Wales would have understood the importance of taking the points. How good was Sio? It's not often you see a tight head lifted completely off the ground.

Cheers BR - USA Rugger gave me the same steer.....and its only 10 minutes walk from where I am staying!

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Folks - looking for some help. Any tips on where to catch the Wallabies Wales game in Manhattan. I think it kicks off at about 11.45 NY time so pubs should be open. Thanks

Chiefs, Tahs and Sharks to top the conferences. Saders to be in the mix at the business end with the last two finalists to come from the Canes, Brumbies and Bulls - tough to call. Les Blues are the France of Super Rugby - you wouldn't put money on them but you can't rule them out. I think...

Disappointing for Quade - on his day he is something special and I was looking forward to him turning it on this year. He got a bit of unfair treatment at the last world cup and I would love to see him have a world cup this year that people remember for the right reasons. Hope he has time to...

I have always wanted to see Izzy get a go in the 13 jersey. The more one on one situations you can put him in over 80 minutes the better - and the 13 jersey strikes me as being the best position for that. Easier to get the ball to than the wing and less likely to be double teamed than a...

Agreed - most of them had the body mass of fifteens players, not sevens players. You could see the difference with some of the lesser known teams from the US, Canada and even Russia who were sevens specialists - they were built differently and how much better both their pace and endurance was...

Cheers Crashy - he lit up alright when I told him that. Thanks

I was lucky enough to be down at Thomond Park yesterday for the sevens. Young fella was turning 9 so thought we could take him down to share in a bit of Waratah glory since we couldn’t be there last week. Unfortunately, by the end of the day it became clear he was going to be the only Aussie...

My hopes for Horne as a high as anyones since watching him play that semi at the SFS as a 19 year old. I thought we may have a first glimpse of one of the greats, but not as a winger on that performance. Both tries were strongly fiished but in each case he chose to do it the hard way when he...

Horne did what Horne does - ran nice lines, bumped off tacklers, was punishing in defence and completely ignored the unmarked man outside him when he bumped off the fullback to score. He is phenominal talent but he needs to learn when to hold on and when to let go if he wants to be a test regular.

My recollection is that Slipper has gone alright on the TH side in the past - certainly not appreciably worse than the LH side. In the circumstances I wonder why we don't look to develop him there? If I recall correctly, Greg Holmes debuted for the wallabies as a LH so giving Slipper a season...

Where do we think Toby Smith rates - he is eligible but injured isn't he. I have also been very impressed by the way Pek Cowan seems to have improved his scrummaging this year. He was always a great little worker that never quite had it at scrum time. I haven't seen all his games but have...

If I wanted to attack the opposition lineout there are few players I could think of that I would prefer to have lifting me. If you are defending at the front you need to be quick into the air with a good vertical leap (Mowen is as ggod as we have at this). But you also need a back lifter that...

Good call - was wondering how long before someone suggested Mogg for the wing. I think the Moggster needs to improve his defensive game to be an early choice at full back, but on the right wing he provides a balance to the back three that we desperately need. He has the pace to flll the role...

Apologies Brumby Runner - that was the emotion talking. This started out with a comment about how much we love games being decided on scrum penalties. Should have agreed and left it there

Correct - but if you look at the sequence of three scrums - with three second row feeds, two clean tight heads and one scrum destroyed - then to call a penalty for a collapse against the dominant team on the third when he had reset previously - doesn't sit right

Ponies did what they do well, very well and got a good win. NSW need to learn from this - they need to be able to rely on their set piece; they need to take points when on offer; they need more defensive urgency and (above all) they need to trust their game. They had more impact on the bench...

Just before Foley dropped it cold with the line open.....and just before To'omua smashed him. What exactly did he say to the touchie that the commentators had to apologise for - something along the lines of "who's reffing this rucking game?"