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The initial reaction is the likes of Samoa, Georgia, etc are getting shafted but does that necessarily need to be the case My understanding is that this nations cup with be 11 games (play everyone once). Last year (2022) the Wallabies played 14 tests I assume we will want at least one more...

The problem with England's style of play is that if you don't score tries you rarely build up a big enough lead to be "safe" and then what happened on the weekend can happen. I agree though, must give credit to the Sth African coaching team. I thought the switching of Libbok and Pollard...

So it has taken me awhile to get to this stage but maybe we start to look at positives for a change. What does Eddie do for the next 9 months? I assume he has a full time contract so doesn't just piss off on holiday for most of this. Understandably the short time he has been with the...

This is where the lack of depth is highlighted. The Force and Rebels end up with a lot of these "journeymen" type players. They are serviceable but are never going to help get you to a team pushing for a title. Good to have them in the squad but hopefully better players to keep them out of...

Yeah England will probably finish 3rd and all be given Knighthoods!

Yes, 4 great quarter finals but a big risk now that the 2 semi finals could be blow outs. I know a lot has been said about the draw already but it really doesn't feel right for France and Ireland to both get eliminated so early, they would both comfortably beat England and Argentina.

So just imagine the hugely unlikely miracle happened and Fiji choked and we got through. Has Eddie given himself time to replace Frost and Gordon? I don’t think Jorgensen has been replaced either? The ultimate outcome would be for RugbyAU to step in and say eddie we are taking over...

Watching the last couple of games live I think it is underestimated how much damage kerevi and koribete do to players when they hit them. There were many times when biggar, anscombe etc and the Portuguese players had to miss 3 or 4 phases because they were curled up in a ball in agony. I...

Rather than signing rugby league wingers why don’t we start trying to sign South African or Argentinian/Georgian props. Get them to move here and qualify on residency basis (remember Noriega). Everyone (except Hamish) knows the game is won up front.

When do they do the draw for the next World Cup? Hopefully not soon because if we are not in the top 8 at that stage we will really be in a group of death and will prob miss finals again, this time in our home World Cup

Waking up in Lyon and not feeling any better, have tickets to the Portugal game as well and now that is a non event, had a week planned of taking the kids to see the boys train etc but will definitely be doing something different now. Gutted as I am sure the players are as well. Hope Eddie has...

Also not sold on Leota, he needs a massive game to justify selection here. on the train now to Lyon from Paris ready to get behind the boys. We still have some quality players so can make this happen. Predicting it will be under 7 point win either way

And Tom Wright although better would still be stupid given he won’t pick kelleway because he is not a goal kicker Is Eddie making selections just to get a team to play vs Portugal or picking a player that could potentially start in a quarter final and make an impact? Surely it’s the latter...

If he did that it would be the fucken stupidest decision he has made so far and there have been a lot of them!

Devastating for Jorgensen but agree this could be the opportunity we need to make an improvement to the squad with Ikitau or a fly half. Will be interesting to see what he does

I think we should bring kelleway into 13 for this one, the center pairing is not working for mine. As well as winning we must either get a bonus point ourselves or beat wales by more than 7 that way we should both end of the same amount of points and we still go through. Regardless of what...

Does that mean they only have 2 hookers then? Seems pretty risky if they pick up a short term injury during the rest of the tournament or in warm up? Plus Fourie more of a utility as well from my understanding

Our only hope to progress from here is for Eddie to come out tomorrow and say we have picked up some unfortunate injuries and Kemeny/Leota/Donaldson/Vunivalu and Perese are going home and being replaced by Samu/Hooper/Quade/Ikitau and Wright

Need to focus on the positives. We still have a world class loosehead and number 8 and two bloody good wingers. Frost is back and nic white should be playing with a lot too prove to keep his spot as are others so we should hopefully still be too strong

Wow that is a good Samoan team when Sopoaga and Taufua can only make the bench. I am tipping them to upset Argies or England