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Good point, cheezel. It can't be too easy to encourage mongrel and discipline at the same time -- especially when you're trying to get players who don't seem to have any natural mongrel in them to play with mongrel. They don't seem to know where the line is of what they can and can't get away...

I hope you guys brought enough of whatever it is you're smoking to go around. I guess it's possible that with both series effectively dead-and-buried and therefore no pressure to win the Wallabies could come out firing for a couple of games. But then if they win a few and everyone starts...

My read on it was that they were mainly hoping to milk a penalty and then changed their minds and went for a try when they got a bit closer to the line.

I wonder if fitness is an issue? How many games now have we been leading at halftime and still managed to lose? We keep getting dominated in the 2nd half. Surely that isn't just mental?

1. We're still getting caned at the rucks. Brown was awful and I don't think a backline of Elsom, Pocock/Waugh, and Smith will help there. We need big guys who can clear the rucks and counter-ruck. I dunno how much of that is part of their game-plan -- so many times when we have possession and...

It's the rucks where we keep getting beaten up by our forwards not arriving quick enough and in big enough numbers. And with this new law allowing the tackler to keep playing the ball that's a big deal - especially now that the saffers have a quality fetcher of their own for a change. I've never...