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tests: v France 10/11/12 v England 17/11/12 v Italy 24/11/12 v Wales 1/12/12 a couple of weeks away yet but thought I would get the ball rolling with test match dates and opponents. The squad will most likely be announced after the All Blacks test on October 20th.

Shame about the apparent poaching of the Penrith players and hope the Emus get the numbers and support needed to continue next season as they are vital for rugby in this country moving forward (though those on the North Shore and in the eastern Suburbs will most likely disagree). Hope Will...

IMHO get rid of the top-ups and increase the salary cap to $5mill. The ARU could thenoffer bonus payments for Wallaby squad selection and additional payments for match selection.

those of you looking at MMM as a 'hard graft lock' may need to go back to the old dvds to watch him play. ( IMHO) MMM was better suited to playing blindside flanker (despite him being 2m tall) as his scrummaging was woeful.

The Waratah's squad for 2013 looks very strong with a great starting 15 and it appears a little depth coming through. The advent of a new coach and (hopefully) team of assistants will enable the 'tahs to change direction as the Reds and Brumbies have done in recent years. With the right coaching...

that forward pass to Carter bordered on deliberate as he was 1m in front of the bloke when it was passed to him. Also can anyone tell me why the Souths scrum were penalised 5m out from the uni line (uni feed) with approximately 5 left on the clock. From my viewing on the ABC Paddy Ryan brought...

Why is this Warren Livingstone not on the ARU board? He seems to have vision and business acumen a good combination that seems badly lacking in the governance of the game in Australia.

Not according to the rugby heaven website which says the game starts at 10:35pm AEST.

Even the home SA games can be at annoying times. This Saturday's AEST 10:30 start for instance.

TOCC, I think you are missing Fatprop's point. You can play different styles of rugby but whatever style you choose to play the basics will stay the same. If all the Oz Super Rugby sides were taught the basics in the same way it would be better for the Wallabies as all players would be singing from the...

9 Rech (2Blues) 10 Saifoloi (SD) - though not sure if he has played for one of the Islander countries 14 Nicky Price (SD) 15 Ben Volavola (SD)

Does anyone else remember when the Wallabies had an assistant coach by the name of (Ben?) Perkins. What was his specialty again? Recruited by Rod McQueen and dumped under Eddie Jones from memory..... think it was a cost cutting measure.

Only problem I can see with the appointment is it seems he is part of the 'old boys' netwrok, schooled at Kings, then to Sydney Uni, worked for a bank and then gets a job on the 'tahs board. That in itself is not a problem but when just about everone on the board has a similar background it...

Think it was about 2009. The point I was trying to make is that the reserve scrumhalf is unlikely to get any game time unless there is an injury to Genia. Having a player like Lucas, who has played at scrumhalf before (he can still train to play there) will enable 3 positions to be covered...

You take a punt at super rugby level not at test level. As I stated earlier the reserve halfback is unlikely to get a lot of game time unless injury occurs so we need to pick someone on the bench who can cover other positions. Ben Lucas appears to be the best bet as he has proven capable of...

At the moment I would go for Ben Lucas for the reasons you have stated. He is a good 10/15 who can play 9. Deans won't replace Genia unless absolutely necessary (IMHO) and the ability to cover the other positions gives the Wallabies greater bench flexibility. The other one who rarely seems to...

that or "I wanted to show faith in the guys that did the job against Wales". Sorry I don't know how to translate into Deans-speak.

I mentioned this on the live chat but as much as it pains me to say it, Deans was not entirely to blame for the loss tonight. I think we need to take a long hard look at the provincial coaches as all too often in Australian rugby our players get shown up due to an inability to perform basic...

well? the all blacks never got out of second gear and still managed to bomb 3 genuine try scoring opportunities (at least).

Miller from Norths looked handy at the start of the year, haven't seen him for a while so not sure how he is going now. Played Oz schoolboys last year.