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You mean like the wallabies and mortlock?

McMullen and Knox were two notable omissions. Nathan Williams is the "mostly in the outside backs" Qlder I mentioned in my first post but did he play in Europe (which is what this list is about). I'm pretty sure Malone hasnt played in Ireland. Knox was a beautiful distributor, a good kicker...

George Smith is my tip as well. The "what if" he'd been an AB question is an interesting one. The thing which would have made the most difference would have been that his career would have been played with a dominant pack rather than a pack acknowledged as lightweight from 2002/3 to 2007. That...

You two old timers will never find it so I will start again: 1. Warner 2. Edmonds 3. Malone 4. Howard 5. Horan? 6. Berne 7. James 8. Macrae 9. Warwick 10. Parks 11. Drahm 12. Spooner 13. Mark Sweeney 14. Tim Walsh 15. Tim Donnelly 16. Lachlan Mackay (prob only 12 at this stage)? 17. Gower...

I'm with Lee and Noddy. Mortlock is a 13 only and may be getting too slow for it as well. He has shown us more times than I need to see that he cant play 12. I would, if at all possible, play AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) at 15. Dingo will have him practicing his positional play and kicking and he will be a better...

Malcolm O'Kelly isnt a particularly skilled player - he is dogged. POC is far more skilled and far smarter than MOK. I think MMM does have the skills and size for a lock. However he cant scrum and, until he is taught, can only be a 6.

Pocock played last year and so did Beale which made me think Cooper may have as well but could be wrong.

Thomo how is Laurie Fisher settling in at Munster? Any inside info? He sounds like a nice bloke and a good forwards coach. He didnt have the injury free cattle at the Brumbies after the first year. I wish him well.

Mumm is a 6 who has been forced to play lock for the Tahs because of Kanaar's retirement, Vickerman's injury history and being better than Caldwell. MMM cant scrum so is a 6 only. I agree that he needs to convert the potential we have all heard about into results.

Not sure this works for squad management/balance purposes. If there was a very rich Argentinian bloke who wanted to start an Argie Super Rugby team that would be ideal I reckon. So the Buenos Aries Gauchos are conceived. Next stop, a super rich Chinaman to base a team in Honk Kong - The Hong...

Doesnt this also mean that Australia A would have done the job? Wasnt Kepu capped for Aus A? Pocock and Cooper too? Given O'Connor has played 7s, they were all already in the bag.

There arent 2 or 3 Argie teams ready to step into Super rugby. Club rugby in Arg is amateur and, as I recall, there was only one Arg based player in their world cup squad. The Arg players wont come home from Europe because Sanzar cant even keep the likes of Dan Carter, Victor Matfield and...

Disco - can you explain to me how replacing Cooper or O'Connor with Beale or Horne alleviates the reason you want them replaced (young and raw)? I believe Horne is only slightly older than O'Connor (ie a matter of months not years) and Beale is the same age or younger than Cooper. I think fp...

Yes, but it was slow ball. A good defense will always repel attacks of slow, flat ball.

I was at that GF NTA. If I recall correctly, the star of the show was Campo who, I think, either set up one and scored one or set up two. Afterwards, he stayed around for about an hour and a half by himself signing autographs. You can say what you like about his views and articles, but he is...

I cant disagree as I havent seen any club rugby for a couple of years. Unless things have changed, Uni dont play an expansive game. They play directly, mostly in the 10, 12 and, less often, in the 13 channel with forwards and big backs hitting it up off the 10 and sometimes the 12 and playing...

Nice work Gagger. I meant allowed by the Wallabies forwards not by the ref.

A few comments above. Over all, I agree that our backs arent performing wonderfully at the moment. Bear in mind though that its not a great backline. Mortlock is too old, Cross is a strong runner but not much of a distributor, Hynes is solid in a Rob Egerton kind of way but no Campese, Barnes is...

Re: More Pommy Whinging Excellent post gambler.

Actually, you are right. We should have won the Auckland game too. If not for the refs we would have held the Bled for the last 70 years non stop and no one else would have won a 3N or a world cup. I'm guessing refs also consistently shaft Easts against Uni and Randwick as well? Against...