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The first miss: The backrow or Burgess should pick up anyone coming back on the inside. I think the Wobs were playing drift at that time meaning that Barnes will tackle the 12 and Cooper should be tackling the 13. By virtue of Gower running across field so much, Barnes had drifted to the 2nd...

Its a pretty good looking 22 though. Importantly, we dont have too many absolute first choice players injured and we dont have our must haves injured. eg Carter and McCaw for the ABs. If we lost Moore, Baxter, Giteau, a lock or Burgess we would start to feel it. As it is, for the injuries we...

Is Lote paid too much, underperforms and they'd like to get rid of him to use his cash elsewhere? Maybe. A bit more club rugby will do the trick though. No need to be sneaky about it.

Re: Comings and goings at the Force The market would let them fail and be replaced with something else. However, the new team wouldnt have fans, infrastructure...anything. Better to save the Reds by whatever means necessary and get rid of those in management who are responsible (and still there).

Is there the tiniest bit of irony in you saying that in the same post as suggesting someone like Os doesnt know what he is talking about?

Re: Comings and goings at the Force The problem with this theory is that the market is not a perfect tool with which to allocate scarce resources and the invisible hand is sometimes on the end of the arm of a drunken fool. I know you suggest there should be some "regulation" and you give the...

Nick that is such complete bullshit in the context of both those incidents. I'd warrant you wouldnt feel the same way if one of the big PI boys started pounding into you and no one stopped it. There is no place for that stuff on the rugby field. Handbags are fine, but punching someone repeatedly...

Dont worry, I'm not overly sensitive. I wasnt defending Kaplan and the ABs, just saying that wasnt the Wallabies problem.

That episode alone should have ensured that Macrae never wore a Waratahs jumper again. Punching someone lying on the ground in the foetal position is cowardly. The other similarly memorable and disgusting episode in Australia rugby was Brial on Bunce.

A bit of debate is healthy. I wouldnt come here if I was just going to agree with everything. Having said that, I seem to have hit a purple patch of people disagreeing with me!

That is a forceful statement where history shows that it can go either way. As evidence, check out your gif where it did go the way you think it shouldnt have. Had there been more Wallabies there, we may not have lost the ball regardless of how much the ABs were trying to cheat to stop us. I'm...

You might be right but its one of those things that can go either way. The best way for the Wallabies to ensure they didnt put themselves in the position where the ref can determine what happens would have been to get more players to the breakdown. If someone else had been there helping MMM...

Re: Comings and goings at the Force News on TSF is that Gareth Hardy has signed for Leeds. Not surprising. It was actually disappointing he didnt kick on more.

Thomo do you reckon all the Australian players playing in the NH have been told by their wet weather shrinks that they need to confront their fears and that is why they are over there? I mean, there must be over a hundred playing at a professional level up there. I agree with Cyclo. Baxter was...

Light back row, weak bench. The only thing that will keep the Lions in it will be the rustiness from the Boks.

Cordingley didnt get there until 2 or 3 more ABs had arrived. We both know Gregan would have been telling the ref about all the infringements rather than getting the ball out. Burgess on the other had would have had a dig for it, maybe got it, and then passed it behind Gits.

If you could get him to move, bingo.

We'll stop our tighthead prop from saying he'd prefer to play in nice (as opposed to miserable) conditions if you stop your captain from crying if he gets dumped out of a ruck. Deal?

Gagger you dont really think we lost the ball because the ABs infringed do you? We lost it because there was only one wallaby who tried to protect the ball carrier and that was McMenimen who did a pretty good job in the circumstances. Cordingley turned up but didnt do anything. In the last...

Amen to that Gagger. I am hopeful that Pato Noriega wouldnt throw Alexander and Cowan to the lions unless he thought they could handle it. Unless, of course, that is a culling mechanism in Argentina. I'd be surprised if any of Jim Williams, Noriega or Deans encouraged Alexander and Cowan to...