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If Timani isn't injured and Dempsey gets the bench spot over him I will cry tears of blood. What the actual fuck do Stephen Moore or Ned Hanigan offer? Still excited for the game but.

Interesting to see you credited Stephen Moore with 16/16 impact with his ruck involvement. There was a passage in the first half where he tried to enter two consecutive rucks near the All Blacks tryline and simply fell over / fell onto the ruck and slid off. The only impact I could identify...

To return some activity to this post, I see 13, 8, 4/5 and 11/14 as the biggest holes we need to plug (essentially, the whole team). Ignoring WF players: For 8 hopefully Holloway comes good, but a backup is needed. Wells / Wilkin simply are not big enough, any SS options? 4/5 we've picked up...

3 Beale 2 Coleman 1 Kuridrani

People were up in arms about it because it was Quade (and he's polarising) and not because its a bad idea. People still get angry about it re: Foley and Beale for the same reasons. Almost every team in the world drops their 10 back in defence (Beaudan Barrett will field a lot of kicks from...

Either is Smith, ALB, Ioane (!!!!) or McKenzie. Julian Savea had the worst defensive stats in the 2015 or 2016 Super Rugby comp (can't remember) yet he was consistently an All Black. Defence is about commitment at both the personal level and the team level. If the team's mentally right on the...

Interesting to see an all Brumbies front row on the paddock and an (essentially) all Tahs front row on the bench. Will that experience packing together come good? Otherwise, Kepu, TPN, Timani, Kuridrani and Hodge offer some real size and punch for the second half. Keen to see the bench...

Hanigan's got to be the luckiest player in the country at this stage. If he didn't have the iconic mop (he stands out more with it) and the ridiculously deep / country accent would he be in the team? Perhaps he's connected with Cheika in a way no other player has before: Hanigan: "Yeah...

To be fair, the All Blacks give their opposition more ball than any other team in the world. If we could use it effectively we may be in the game. Besides, Bledisloe 1 after that shit-show of a season and I don't think any players in that team will be shirking contact. I also think if...

What if he tops the tackles, runs and ruck involvements for the Wallabies like he normally does?! Will this be the end of New Zealand rugby as we know it?

This team is going to be a living hell for the commentators with all the traditional Fijian names. John Stewart?!?! How the hell do you pronounce that?!?

Of course but I initially suggested I was pissed that Australia's best Super coach might be leaving Australia due to this saga. I know his connections are minimal and I know he may have very little reason to stay but the fact of the matter is: he had a contract to coach an Australian side next...

I do but I also don't care what nationality our Super Rugby // Wallabies coaches are. An Australian coach to me is one that coaches in Australia. The recent "Australian Super coaches must be Australian" frustrates the hell out of me. Besides, Wessels has been in the Australian system since...

How good! Will "Chargedown" Genia is back to reduce the amount of spots available to Louwrens and Ruru, Australia's most promising half backs, and now Australia's most promising coach may be lost at the end of all this. Keep the wins coming ARU!

At least he'd have youthful naivety on his side if he was my age. One could also say theoretically the same thing about turtles (amongst any number of things). I am neither a turtle nor a Uni student.

23 year old Sydney fan here - I have absolutely no Shute Shield club affiliation but if I had to choose one I'd probably say I'm a Norths or Manly fan. I'd rather not choose one as I don't actually like the Shute Shield in aggregate at all. Entitled and self-centered lot.

I think a decent petition that could be made would be a change.org petition exclusively for fans from other franchises (not the Western Force) that outlines the collateral for the ARU. Despite my emblem, I'm Sydney based and have been a Tahs man my whole life. This whole saga has left me with...

To be honest I find the non-selection of Higgenbotham quite confusing. Cheika has said that he learnt last year that you really need 3 proper jumpers in the test side, and that compromises can't be made around that. For me, that implies that he'll have either a jumping 6 (Hanigan) or a jumping...

I don't think he's suggesting that Pocock's work ethic stems from his social conscience, but rather that they both grow out of his lived experience. His brother had PTSD and developed quite bad anxiety, Pocock had PTSD and it manifested itself as an eating disorder / obsessive training regime...

Is it though? The average could be >2 and I wouldn't be surprised. Think about every Western Force squad member earning $100k+. They'd have purchased two or more (I'd say significantly more). Think about every ex-Western Force player, the admin and office staff behind the organisation, the...