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All the best to Colby in game 100 of Super Rugby, terrific achievement. Champion player and champion bloke who will probably be embarrassed if they make him run out first tonight. Will work his arse off and put in 100% as usual, barely miss a tackle (83 tackles 5 misses 94.3% success this...

Yeah fair enough but I believe my point is still valid in that by going up behind POM any contact is going to result in a dangerous situation. Chicken and egg stuff I know as POM could still have ended up in a dangerous position without Folau in the equation but that would mean they would have...

Did he get the ball??? In the second frame of your examples above it looks like POM's hand on the ball, not Folau's

Re. the Folau incidents. The issue I have is how he puts himself behind POM. It could be argued, by doing this, he is not in a realistic position to catch the ball. By getting behind the player in the air while travelling forward, any contact with that player in the air is going to be...

Unless he's injured, geez that's tough on Timu. Hanigan must be one hell of a good trainer.

Problem is, who have we got to get us over the gain line? That's why I'd have The Thor in the starting side. Why wait till the 50-60min mark to bring him on when he can have the same impact from the start. Game can be gone by the 60min mark.

Agree 100% Ignoto. Timu would be stiff to lose his spot in the starting 15 and it would be outrageous if he was left out of the 23, especially if Hanigan is the one to take his spot.

Often wondered why the ol "tap one" option isn't used much as opposed to taking a scrum, which, even when you have dominance, can be a lottery in terms of which way a penalty might go. If your plan is to just bang away with a pick and go why take the risk of losing the pill through a dodgy scrum...

No doubt a discussion was had but that was only because of the intervention of Pocock and Genia. Certainly didn't look like Hooper instigated it by pulling those two aside and saying what do you reckon we do here boys. Look of course none of us where out there and we're only guessing but I'm...

Without wanting to labour on it, the scrum penalty is around 1 hour 24 min into the link. Hooper actually puts the ball on the ground and thinks about a quick tap before Pocock looks to put a hand in front of him to stop him and then Genia takes control of the situation.

We'll agree to disagree there. I could cop going for the try if there was 30min to go or the penalty was near the sideline but with a tick over 10min left and the penalty is bang in front you get your nose in front every time IMO.

Point being there should never have been a discussion at all. In the same circumstances 99.99% of Test captains would have pointed straight at the sticks as soon as the whistle blew. Just an observation.

Have another look Cyclo, Genia is calling the shots there. Hooper looked like a kid who had his lolly bag taken off him when he reluctantly pointed to the posts.

In regards to Hooper's captaincy, I couldn't believe Genia had to talk him into taking that shot at goal from in front of the posts when they were a point down at the 68 min mark. Would love to know how the conversation actually went but the body language from Genia was basically saying FFS mate...

Bandar is on the money

Besides, by signing a contract extension in the knowledge it would rule him out of WC selection under our rules at the time, surely that says something about his desire to play for the Wallabies. Why bother with someone not totally committed to the cause when you have players of similar ability...

Whether Cheika let To'omua go or not is a moot point. The issue I have, is by jumping through all these hoops to get him qualified, Cheika essentially guarantees him a spot regardless of his form or anyone else's form 12 months out from naming a squad.

We have Beale, Hodge and Kerevi, just for starters, so we hardly have a depth problem at 12 and Cheika wants to manufacture some way of getting To'omua back for the WC?? Like the completely over the top effort to get Samu into the squad, I just shake my head at what Cheika does and can totally...

Has the law changed in relation to "binding" at the ruck? You used to have to be bound at the arm but I am continually seeing these guards or blocks for box kicks being set up with players standing next to each other with just a hand on the back of the bloke next to him.

No but Samu is hardly the answer to those issues. If he was a six foot six tackle busting machine and a lineout freak, different story but he is not.