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Apologies, I was confused with the original wording. Understand though that potentially more money to come for the International Broadcast rights to the Wallabies games which was apparently quite lucrative last time.

Anyone got the inside word on the broadcast deal is for the international games? 100 mil for just the domestic side of the comp seems like a great deal. Think we should all tip our caps to Ralene Castle for sticking two fingers to Fox at the start of negotiations.

Hodge did great, but the reason myself and others were skeptical prior to kick off was that he probably had one of his worst Super Seasons this year as well as his previous for the Wallabies has never really shown he was much a of a distributor of the ball. As you say though with Hodge at...

Rennie has shown he is a coach that can change his game plans based on the players available and the opponent (something that Cheika always refused to do with the excuse of playing the "Australian Way"). He did it last night by changing our style that meant Hodge wasn't required to be the focal...

Yeah I agree that had he played it smarter that was a wallabies penalty and perhaps if it were Hooper or Wilson at the breakdown I would be more critical. However he is a winger from league background so willing to let him slide a bit on messing up those things as I believe his intent and desire...

Just re watching the game here and must say kudos to Berry. Reffing as a home ref must be damn hard and he did a great job. Don’t think you could argue about any of the cards and was consistent throughout. Obviously misses some things here and there but you can’t ask more than just being...

The ratings are usually not great on fox but disagree about koroibete. He was immense and his yellow card was a due to build up of penalties and not his fault. His flaw is sometime forgetting that the more complicated rules of rugby vs league.

Main criticism has to be our strange ability to always concede straight after we score. Just a big way to relieve pressure on the opposition. Is it a focus issue? Being suprised that we scored against the ABs?

Really good to get a win. Need to be playing all Wallabies games at Suncorp or Perth as mentioned (Sydney is too close to Auckland). Hodge played to the best of his ability, still have my doubts about his passing ability but as a solid runner and defender he can do it at test level...

I am concerned about Hodge at 12, his passing game at test level isn't up to scratch. I would love us to go back to a similar team that played in Wellington but with To'omua injured I think that obviously impossible. Would be keen on: Slipper, FF (Folau Fainga'a), Tupou, Salakaia-Loto, Phillip, Samu, Hooper...

I would be keen to revert back to a similar team from game 1. However having watched the game in full last night again it wasn't as bad as first viewing. Few things pop out: BB at 15 is a big improvement from D Mac. Our kicking game in game 1 was made better by rubbish weather and putting DMac...

I think you're right here. Rennie said the biggest let down last week was the attacking breakdown. I assume from that he thinks Hanigan is better than Samu at that without losing anything in line out. From memory Hanigan hits a lot of rucks for cleaning out, but his effectiveness is up for...

Australia is historically a wet and windy country whilst NZ being known for sunny dry weather in the south so i see his point..........

Thought the hunger and desire from the whole team to chase the ball after Hodge's kick was great (was picturing hodge kicking it short and All Blacks carving up the length of the field prior to the kick). Especially as I felt that fitness/desire towards ends of games was missing towards the end...

Is DHP fit again? Would make the following changes: Hosea for Simmons DHP for Hodge Petaia for Lolesio Watching the replay again last night JOC (James O'Connor) looks like the fittest guy on the park. He was also the only one who had a clear enough head to set up for the droppie with the wallabies at 10m line...

Weather made field goal pretty dicey. Very soft underfoot with strong wind, could have been high risk especially for guys that aren’t used to doing it. Can see that by NZ not even trying to set up for it either. Only caught the 2nd half but thought was a great game of rugby. Wallabies line out...

Hearing some strong rumours that they will potentially delay many of the games until September. Something similar was done with the hand foot mouth out break few years back. I can't see any of the italian matches being played. Plus they don't want to lose revenue playing games in closed stadiums.

Warratahs & Rebels haven't done much either. Think winning in NZ is the main thing. Just let us enjoy this (potential) great start to the weekend. ;)

What has happened to Murray? Two years ago he was probably best 9 in world rugby and his kicking was outstanding. Seemed a shell of that yesterday, think one of his box kicks nearly landed back on his head at one stage. Tuilagi is immense, don't like England at all but he must be the best 13...

Watched both matches, France's tactic seem to be come out of the gates and just smash teams in the first half then they seem to drop off and just try to contain in the second half. Guess that points to their run on team being a lot better than the blokes on the pine. Were lucky to escape with...