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He could be but he's not listed as one of the unavailable players so it's possibly also a coincidence.

That Roar article was a bit off the mark this time.

It could just be Panda's personal take: Brumbies backrower Luke Reimer and the Waratahs’ Charlie Gamble are among the options Schmidt is considering, with Tom Hooper the strong contender to replace McReight in the No.7 jersey for the opening Test in Brisbane on August 10.

Skelton not to be selected until the Argentina tour, along with Porecki and Bell. Lancaster out, Koribete and/or Jorgensen in. T Hooper likely to start at 7 v Sth Africa with whoever comes in for McReight being the understudy...

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They don't have to contend with the media hype of 2 other winter codes and the Matildas limping home against the 64th ranked nation in a pool game. They'll be hoping to use the girls as leverage to get a bit of attention on the code and make the announcement on Thursday after the medals are...

I'll rephrase - I reckon they want the Aus rugby viewing public to focus on the 7s at the Olympics rather than an obscure squad selection/omission. I expect the announcement to be the day the girls are done with.

I'd say the players all know. I reckon it's to not steal the limelight while the Olympic 7s are on.

The thing that gave me the shits when I was watching the Ch 9 news report this morning, referring to the Argentina game the sports anchor (whatever his name is) made mention of 'the Roosters' Mark Nawaqanatawase'. I mean he hasn't even been to a training run for them yet, they could at least...

I take it heaps of people got up to watch the games? Perfect results so far.

Kings +2 New +7 Joeys +5

I'm good with it, the Kiwis set the precedent years ago with some garbage about a senior All Black (SBW maybe?) allegedly was going to to be released to go and play in a 7s tournament or something so they took a week off for that.

He was one of a number of players rotated out for the Georgia test. Still hot favourite to be the starting 9 for the Saffers, JS was trying to work out who his understudy should be. I'll believe you when you quote your source.

It means that whoever wrote it has no idea what he is on about.

In fairness the Olympics rarely place much emphasis on the time zones of us Antipodeans when scheduling the events. It's all about the USofA.

I just can’t think of any he debuted that are still in Wallabies contention, outside of Tom Hooper. Nonngoor and Schoup maybe, but they weren’t really by design. Certainly can’t think of a back, although he did take Jorgensen on the RWC junket.

I said to my son at what must have been the 3rd scrum (the one we got the penalty), ‘there haven’t been many scrums, actually I can’t remember when the last one was’. The 4th one was meant to be the last play presumably, give it to Noah to kick out, but we got a free kick off it. The Georgians...

3. McReight 2. Frost 1. Paisami

It's very poor, particularly from Wright given his experience. As BR says maybe there was something up with him so let's wait and see, maybe Donno put his boots on the wrong feet as well. Re Lancaster, overall he was OK but he didn't do anything to jump out at us to say he has to stay there...

I’ve just put the review of the Tahs players up on our thread if you want to jump over and read that.