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Agree with that 15. Unless they decide to start Korczyk and bring Smith on from the bench. Personally I think the Reds will thump them. Reds by 15. :)

Yeah when you have QC (Quade Cooper) running at you with Kerevi on one shoulder and Hunt on the other, you're going to have a bad time. It's a pity QC (Quade Cooper) never recovered his own footwork to his 2011 level after his injuries, but there's still enough there that he'll go himself if the defence opens up to cover the...

Very true. Last season the Reds were actually in the game up until 60 minutes a whole bunch of times and then the benches came on and the Reds ended up getting flogged.

I'm curious to see how GS goes. Houston was very successful in England and a cult hero with numerous MOTM performances, and from what I can tell basically just a wrecking ball at 8. But he came back here and didn't make much impact at the end of last season, and over the off season has slimmed...

The culture does seem to be much improved. Last night the body language and the chatter looked like a group of lads who are enjoying their rugby and starting to get that spirit back. Hunt seems to have a real leadership role in the backline, and Cooper too as we already knew. They seem to be...

So pretty much two full strength teams... fingers crossed for no injuries. All the Aussie teams are going to need all hands on deck if we're to stand any chance against the Kiwis! Should be a fascinating game, I wasn't going to go but I reckon I might duck along after work after all. The...

I can spare a week if necessary. Not a sandgroper but I sometimes drink Little Creatures if that helps.

Sounds like Tupou needs to watch himself, could prove to be a bit of a liability. He got two YCs over the three matches in addition to this citing, and I remember him getting a few in the NRC too.

Reds should have won that. Poor discipline let them down.

Karmichael Hunt is having a cracker of a tournament. Against Samoa he's got two try assists, some excellent kicks for touch and I think even two breakdown penalties. Reds bringing a very 15s-oriented game with breakdown dominance, although if I'm honest I think the ref is calling "holding on" on...

We know, that was not the starting team come Super season - but that Crusaders team bears just as little resemblance to their best 23 and they thoroughly towelled the Reds. Anyway the issue is not about the players, it's about the mentality and the skills on display which looked worryingly...

Yeah that was pretty concerning from the Reds. Exactly the same issues as last season, they never even looked like scoring. It was a long way from a full strength team but then so were the Crusaders. All in all I haven't seen much from the Aussie teams today to give much hope that 2017 will be...

There are some weird ref calls for sure. Brad Wilkin was over the ball and on his feet, no ruck formed and no Chiefs player anywhere near him and the ref shouts "No Blue!" within a split second. If you're not allowed to go for the ball in that situation, when the hell are you allowed to go for it?!

It seems to be a recent practice in the last few years since the introduction of the 8 man bench and into the "crouch bind set" era though. Props have tended to become specialised as the scrum has developed in response to safety concerns. Plus what they are doing seems to be a bit different...

From the Ed. - please don't quote large posts. Reduce them to the part you want to discuss - or just indicate which post you are referring to such as : Re: Tahs props, Gordon Bray asked Paddy Ryan about that after the match. Paddy said that after Benn Robinson was forced to retire last year...

GAGR's match report was better! :D

One thing I will say about the Brumbies is that they never really had much in the way of ball because they kept dropping it all night in slippery conditions. Tahs dropped a lot of ball too but not as much and they managed to hang onto it at critical times. So while the Brumbies may not quite...

I'll post if I hear anything more, but for now I'll follow the principle of Occam's Razor and assume a typo at Brumbies HQ.

And the official kickoff time is 6pm AEDT. Printed on the tickets and all the pre-match advertising. So either the Brumbies website has got it wrong, or just faintly possibly they've delayed kickoff for an hour.

40 degrees according to the car just now. Horrendous rugby weather! 60% chance of rain by game time though according to BOM.