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1. Ala'alatoa 2. Uelese 3. Bell 4. Skelton 5. Arnold 6. Gleeson 7. Hooper 8. Valetini Right there you've got about 42,000 kilograms of boomfa bum breaking bish, bash, bosh. In the second half you bring on Tupou, Slipper, Porceki, Holloway and Frost and flip the campaign for some zip, zap, zing...

Wilson’s decisions tonight seem to indicate a lack of football with adults, and I’d be interested to hear if that is the case. Two or three times he’s tried to either run over someone or run around someone when it’s been abundantly clear that it’s not on, or won’t happen as he’s the smaller...

I wish the whole team did - we might make more.

I just don’t understand Australian rugby, particularly when we play the Kiwis. You don’t win games by being tricky. You win games by playing better than the other team. Our desire to play “tricky” and lean on low percentage plays is entirely based on the belief that we aren’t good enough to...

Crusaders are up 21-8 and have been relentlessly raiding your try line for 10 minutes after scoring two unanswered tries? And you’re a man down? Yep. That’s it Donaldson. Short uncontested dropout right before half time.

What a weird ruling to get Walton sent off. Speechless lmao

Why did he run that blind away from all support and essentially behind the crusaders pack? Did he think he was going to break three tackles and run 70m untouched to the Rey line? Zero rugby smarts.

Derpus will be having an aneurysm. Donaldson having an expected shocker.

The reality is: politics pervade all areas of life, particularly so with politics of representation, inclusion or race. The now tired conservative shield of “lets keep politics out of X” is simply a transparent way to communicate: “you may not like the opinions I hold, and therefore I’d rather...

I've just started a little bit of data analysis re: Sua'ali'i, which I'll post here, for people not too familiar with the digital media space. The value this kid has provided Rugby Australia is already immense. You can estimate this by looking at the videos he's generated on YouTube / Instagram...

Re the Payne Haas rumours and conversations, does anybody else think it’s interesting that McLennan is going after the NRLs biggest headline generators? McLennans background is in media, and Haas is an incredibly controversial player, with his families and his own incidents in the public eye...

Tell you what - I like Joey Walton. So reliable with great fundamentals. Something this shoddy helter skelter error ridden team needs.

I know it’s been discussed to death this season but I was absolutely sure before this year that you could tackle the ball carrier in a maul if you could get to him. Pisses me off to no extent that you can’t. If that’s the rule, that’s fine, but I philosophically don’t agree with it.

My Dad - a lifelong rugby fan in his 60s - barely watches anymore, and when he does he inevitably always ends up grumpy as he laments 'the rules are so complicated' when a whistle is blown and there is a different outcome to what would have been expected 5-10 years ago. I feel his pain. Scrums...

I had toyed with this idea in my head a year or two back. Imagine it’s 2021 and RA sells itself to the NRL for $1. The NRL considers its choices. It could completely shut down the game, but even it would admit that the revenue associated with the international Union game is enticing. So, it’d...

And that’s why Bobby V will be the Wallabies 8. Such strength in tight.

Rewatching it after a break for dinner, that Blyth card was gross. It’s not often I get squeamish but it was just so reckless and unnecessary. Would be happy to see a ban for that.

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, as I have 10+ pages to catch up on, but I'm not too surprised by the players that have missed out. This is because I think Eddie has simply swapped some of the obvious players who have missed out -- who all are either bench players, or squad players --...

Took him a second to call it forward didn’t it? “I could probably get away with this one, nobody would ever think that Lord Smith of the Snekky Toilets would ever knock a ball on”.

ffs I watched The Last Jedi last night - thanks for reminding me. Why must all entertainment in my life constantly disappoint me?