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Happy with everything except dropping Kellaway. And I think frost is a lot better than Arnold, don’t see what Eddie sees in him yet

I don’t mind the suggestion of Kellaway at 13. Petaia still doesn’t fill me with confidence, especially if kerevi is still out, so maybe that is what is happening

Neither of them should have been picked to start with. Hopefully this comment comes back to bite me but Jorgensen's time should have come next year. Picking an injured untried fullback for a world cup campaign over other experienced options (Ikitau/Wright/Hodge/O'Connor) just doesn't make...

Just for a laugh this is how we could run a 7-1 bench against the saffas in a World Cup semi for example 16 - Matt Faesler 17 - James Slipper 18 - Pone 19 - Matt Phillip 20 - Rob Leota 21 - Langi Gleeson 22 - Josh Kemeny 23 - Isaac Fines-Leleiwasa Actually don’t mind it

Just go back to your waratahs page and you can enjoy all your fantastic signings like Sam Wykes, Jamie Roberts, Nemani Nadolo etc

I haven't seen any training footage but my left-field prediction is that Eddie is going to pull a surprise selection and start IFL at half back.

Uru could well become an option for next year. As long as Skelton keeps getting picked as a lock then these jumping backrowers are definitely going up in value. Also a shame that Paisami was injured most of the year and now has left his run too late, I think he would have been a more reliable...

There would be a maximum 5 of last nights team who will be starting in super rugby, force will be better at home and building good depth.

Not sure this is correct, I thought JOC (James O'Connor) was just training at Darwin to cover for Kerevi and same with Fainga'a/Uelese. Think you might be reading a bit more into it. Barbarians form will be important

Didn’t see that coming

There are a few force players still playing elsewhere rather than touring, I think it is a good thing, hopefully this can bring Kaitu’u back to where he was a couple of years ago

Definitely best side for Georgia. I think Eddie will keep doing what he has been doing and tinker around the edges a bit with some players. E.g. swap Frost for Arnold, swap the bench players around but keep the nucleus of the side for the first 3 games and hopefully we are already qualified by...

Yes I am still hoping that Frost was just rested from the France game and is still Eddie’s preferred starter. Richie Arnold has not been that impressive and is not as good as his brother is/was

Argentina are ranked 6th and Fiji 7th, England 8th and Wales 10th Those rankings are not just based off the warm up games as you suggest but longer term performance. England and wales have been bad for a few years whereas the others have been stonger and more consistent. I believe Argentina...

Would we say White is a better goal kicker than Gordon? Or white only good for long distance I am surprised most pundits seem to have ditched white from starting side very quickly. Sure Tate has looked ok but I still think there is a chance Eddie will flip back to White for World Cup...

Yes we are 0-5 but all those 5 losses have been against teams a lot better than wales, Fiji and England so there is hope

The use of the bench was very frustrating, the game was already gone and risking injuries. Just get Gleeson, Leota, Fines etc on earlier to see what they can do. Maybe some credit can go to Eddie though for strategically picking Vunivalu and switching him to the wing against the smaller...

I thought McReight and Kelleway were 2 of our best? I wouldn't be testing Petaia at FB against Georgia, Portugal maybe.

Yes he was very good, was playing at full back as well so obviously pretty versatile. I was expecting him to play wing for force this year with Spink at 13, Donaldson 15 etc but will wait and see. Look forward to seeing what he does this year

This is the type of game you would think we would win by 60 points 5 years ago, great to see the growth in a lot of these other countries. Anyway need to remember this is pretty much our “C” team with 33 in the main squad so we should still comfortably beat them in the World Cup with our B...