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As it currently stands Aus will still be exposed to this for the lead up to the Bledisloe, while NZ will be training away uninterrupted. We shouldn’t complain because it’s the world we currently live in but it would be nice if NZ implied some NFL stile training restrictions on themselves to...

Apparently Australia A fixtures been lined up to be played against Argentina. Would love to see who would make that team

Pretty sure rebels have been given clearance to stay at Sydney Airport hotel tonight, which will lessen the travel burden. It will cut almost 4hrs off their trip time (2hrs each way). The last time they did a 23hr day by the time they got home.

I think we will see Kerevi and a lock (Rodda/Skelton/Arnold). Depending fitness I think he will be happy with Simmons, LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) and Philip as 3 of his 4 options, with one person in to fill the gap. Kerevi to come in as beyond To'omua and JOC (James O'Connor) there is a big gap to the next best 12 option. Kerevi is...

Yep I understand it’s in small groups for 2 weeks. We already have our excuse ready for the first loss boys :)

They can train on day 1. The venue of their quarantine will have facilities supplied so they can train.

I don’t think this case is the same as NZRU and RA. They have both clearly outlined their positions. WF have outlined nothing, they’re on record as stating nothing. NZRU and RA have clearly outlined their positions, someone will have to give way but that’s not gamesmanship, I think that’s...

Arg is playing the the South American championship next month and SA Currie Cup starting up soon, half the squad has been playing in Europe for a number of weeks now. It doesn’t take a month to quarantine from Covid, especially on Aus standards. It’s roughly a 2 week recovery period for mild...

These two battling out for 4th choice 12. To'omua and now Kerevi ahead (even JOC (James O'Connor)). Then Simone.... then these two. Stewart’s age obviously means he has time to move up the ranks

You just isolate the ones that have it. Positive ones will be back in training camp after a couple of weeks. Lots of sports have shown how to prepare around this including rugby in the UK and France. They will be doing heavy testing now so they can play their warm up games against Uruguay etc...

I don’t think he watches anyone other than the Reds, that includes the opposition to the Reds when they are on the field. Campbell hasn’t even been the best fullback, that goes to Maddocks. Campbell has been the best fullback for the last 2/3 games. Maddocks still has the 2 best performances of...

Yep reports NSW will host the tournament in November. Not sure if any positive cases now will overly impact a tournament 2 months away. If we are still getting confirmed cases from within squads in a month that might be another problem but ones now I don’t think will have any impact at all

There is no chance of the Force playing alone in the NZ comp. Its a silly discussion. It would mean 2yrs away from their fans and logistically a nightmare for the players and the tv zone sucks even more than the east coast slot does for Perth. Verging on zero chance. There is no future in it...

Japanese based players are all required to report back to their club now. Some left earlier in the week, others will do so in the next day or two. Kerevi left a couple of days ago. So whoever you select will be based overseas

Named in Pro14 team of the year over night, again as a lock.

Also didn’t realise CFS and Koroibete were of similar standard. Always learn something on these threads each day.

Yep a front row of Slipper, Ready and HJH (Harry Johnson-Holmes) isn’t really skinny white dudes, nor is a locking pair of Philip and Simmons or a backrow of Wilson, McReight and Swinton. It would be two very even teams with obvious strength in depth in some areas and not so much in others.

I’ll think you will find these stats are horribly wrong. As someone mentioned Orr was just the best of an ordinary bunch. He has been playing pretty well without been exceptional but his competition has been very ordinary or inconsistently selected.

I think this is very representative of the best players each week.

This is a great read for anyone bothered to understand the difference between quarantine in both countries and why Aus is looking considerably more likely and why the first Bledisloe needs to be played here. NZ rugby has been amazing for the game world wide but they need to take a good hard...