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Does anyone know the 23 you guys are rolling out? Teams playing on Sunday have announced but you blokes haven't.

Let's cut all this talk of Fui Fui and check out blokes like this! Plenty of diamond in the rough Pacific Islander forwards in every Top 14 and even D2 squad. Sure, you're not going to pinch the ones that are already household names but blokes like this are worth a look.

The way the Reds approach media and social media is just bloody fantastic. No other team in any sport does it better.

Why is a player purported to be in form not worthy of starting in the league's worst team, and often playing 10 in 2nd XV from what I've seen, in the Rising squad? We've got Meehan, Stirzaker, and even probably Burgeo if he's rested from the Wobs (and he probably will be). Hell we even have the...

Just to be clear, who's nicknamed Tyros?

All they'd do is take the money they spent transporting them around to play Super Rugby A sides and switch it to the NRC, genius. Won't happen though.

My pleasure, I don't think the ref did a good job but I think the fact that half the comments are claiming he was biased BH's way and the other half are claiming the opposite shows there's not too much to take from it.

I'm not really disagreeing, just musing.

And in Melbourne city we have the Unicorns....... fark.

I agree but if a bloke is up off the deck quickly, works hard to get in position, and talks in the team chats (all of which would show up on footage) it probably means he's the real deal.

I agree boys but if you the sort of footage you can get of say a Pacific Nations Cup game it's a lot better than live. Good coaches know you don't get alot out of live analysis.

Can you purchase them at the VRU granny on Sat? Sounds like the best option in terms of getting the right size.

The Reds could do worse than signing him in their international spot, and he could do a lot worse than getting Super rugby on his CV. Still, is there any point going there if there's so much footage of him already?

People are idiots about close finals games, the ref was fine. Honestly the rucks were a clusterfuck with Melbourne players going off their feet to win space past the ball every ruck and BH players using hands-in-the-ruck to turn it over when they could. To suggest the game was biased is just...

I get that Kamana comes in with the bigger wraps and training history but his form is not at the same level as Naivalu. That being said, since he's literally the poster boy for the 'locals', he'll probably get the spot.

After watching Saturday it's obvious Naivalu needs AT MINIMUM a bench spot for the Rising. He made line breaks all day, kicked the winning penalty, and is listed as the Dewar Shield's leading try scorer.

He was named to the media in the first inbound tour squad of 2014. Then, to his credit, it came out he was off to England so he was cut. It was all handled pretty well.

Exactly, really great organisations have a thread that goes from top to bottom that is obvious in every action the organisation takes. Now, it's easy to say 'well these guys work for free' but their career is literally standing on brand, so they mustn't be doing a very good job.

Well yes, that's true. I will say though that the board have a 'one family' matra that they use often. Do you feel like the social content or execution is really on brand?

I'm not disagreeing but here's the thing, media teams use those metrics because they're easy to track and easy to label as 'successful' without the campaign really having to be all that successful. The fact is nobody worth their salt operates under the 'any publicity is good publicity' anymore...