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That would truly be a disaster for Gordon. To miss the match-up with Lolesio would definitely not promote his Wallaby chances. I assume that the match review committee has not cited the offending player, when I saw it on TV in the match I thought it was a definite red card (late and to the...

Which leads to a fairly obvious question: "Why is it that no one with two digits on their back is not able to do something that a 7 can do? Especially a 10?!"

If it does mean that then the number of coaching teams that want to be let in on the secret would be too many to count.

Is Ikitau injured or resting? Sapsford is a significant downgrade and presents as a big danger with that Hurricanes backline. Still, only four major losses to the squad - Ikitau, Hooper, Van Neck and Samu I think. Most franchises would consider themselves lucky to have lost only four first...

Given who is now available that's close to the best possible. I'd change Goddard for Wilson and Botha for Holz, but that's just me. My primary concern is Porecki, who needs to lift his game and what happens if Johnson-Holmes goes off early. The Highlanders scrum has given other sides a pretty...

That Force team on paper is a whole lot stronger than last week's lot.

I know you're having a bit of a banter, but we are only Wallaby-resting three players and we've copped an absolute pizzling on here for not resting them earlier. The rest of the regulars missing are either suspended or injured. Vailanu is in for Porecki (injured or concussion), Von Appen is in...

Never mind the salary cap, what happened at Swinton's hearing tonight. I can't find any news anywhere.

Charlie Gamble, maybe the most important player on the injury list except for Bell and Gleeson, is listed as week 9+ ie sometime after week 9. Has anyone got any inside goss on how he's progressing?

Your best 10 plays at 12. Time for Cron to bite the bullet and give the experienced Stewart a go. If you haven't got a 12 just pick your biggest, fastest bruiser and let him loose. Stewart can kick-pass to 11/14 and his pass is good enough to reach 13 & 15 quickly. You know it makes sense! :)

Just in time to replace Swinton. Seu will have to replace Ned (HIA), so maybe Gleeson to 6 and Harris to 8. Is anyone else back so we don't have to raid the U-18's for the bench?

If it was a horse race I'd want both horses swabbed. Moana Pacifica playing reasonably well up to now, their first "home" game in Samoa for two years, you'd expect every player to be playing out of their skins, like the Drua do in Fiji. Hot and humid weather. The Reds playing absolute rubbish...

Robertson is a current Wallaby squad member, Horton and Anstee have both been in Wallaby squads previously I believe. The Force have a number of good players on the injured list, as do most of the Aussie teams. Reds and Tahs have more injured stars than available-for selection Wallaby players I...

That must have been a really tough call! ;)

It always worries me when people are discussing whether an incident happened "with intent". Who among us has the mind reading powers to know what anyone intends. The issue should be "What happened?" and then a discussion of whether that is legal/illegal. Talking about intent just gets us to...

The Tahs have now played six games. Four of those games were against top three teams and arguably one of those, the Brumbies in Canberra, should have been a win. In only one game, against the Rebels, was the team performance really poor. Yet they are second last on the table. So this game...

Gee, an optimistic Tahs supporter is a bit of a novelty. Nice to have, but I think we are going to have to wait till at least after the bye to see any upturn. What we can expect to see is a very solid defensive effort and a loss by 5-10. If we get that, considering our injury list, I will be...

Well there goes my tipping! Beat the Crusaders one week, get crushed by the Clan the next. Analysing previous results seems absolutely pointless when tipping Super Rugby! Should I just throw a dice instead?

Glad to see Stevenson on the bench. Him at 15 and McKenzie at 10 is the stuff nightmares are made of behind that pack.

The scary thing about the injury list is that most of them have a "+" sign beside the week number. Given that so far injury recovery times have exceeded the forecast recovery date on almost every occasion, that means that the squad is unlikely to be close to full strength till round 10 even if...