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Yeah I spoke recently with a guy who played u15's and 16's and schoolboy footy with Duncan who reported that he was the best player he'd ever seen, played with or against. The bloke in question has been around a lot of players who now play Super Rugby and NRL which is what made me take interest. He...

TWAS's backline gives me goosebumps. Just chock full of threats. Unfortunately that doesn't mean shit if Graham manages to implement bullshit game plans and the forwards don't seriously improve their work around the park and in defence

Fa'agase is absolutely the best out of the current unsigned crop definitely. Strong, technically proficient and quite dynamic around the park. I feel like he is most likely a LH at Super Rugby level though (could be wrong but that's my gut feeling). Of the boys who play tighthead better I have been more...

Centres or fullback apparently

Is a strong scrum a pre-requisite to winning in Super Rugby? No, but in tight games it sure as fuck counts. Nothing is more frustrating than good attacking positions turning to nothing because the opposition scrum gets us on skates. Plus the reds attack wasn't exactly that flash. We scored a couple of...

Flexibility? Just because Saia can bend over and touch his toes doesn't mean he's going to keep the scrum straight under pressure. What use is being able to contort yourself into funny positions to strike the ball if your scrum is back-pedalling and you give away a penalty or serve up shit for...

Haven't seen a match thread which blows my mind. For City, Curtis, QC (Quade Cooper) and the rest of their Reds complement (bar Tapuai) are all likely to see game time. For Country, JJ has won a few MotM's recently and they have some experience and young exciting ones like that Magnay kid. Should be a good...

Or he's keeping to the spirit of the competition (or directives from Graham) to give lots of guys opportunities and see who from outside the reds squad really impresses.

If the reds have JJ becoming an aussie this year, Tupou being a foreign development player and Tui not counting because he's a Japanese player that leaves us with a marquee foreign player right? Lets go after an Argentine prop. Or alternatively if we are after another outside back who is a...

On another note, I just watched the Rising play the Eagles on Youtube just so I could see how Ita Vaea went starting for the Eagles in place of Hoiles. First impression...The 8 jersey wouldn't even fit on him so he wore 5 but played at the back. He looks SIGNIFICANTLY overweight. Other...

No, we do not is the plain and simple answer

Hunt is making all the right noises. Good to hear

They would run, lift and do it all in-season. They would just have a different weekly program for the 15,23 and squaddies based on how much game time they had the previous weel

Watched the whole lot. I thought it was a mostly very good performance. Our forwards must have had a rocket put up them and it seems the Buchanan and McDuling in the 2nd row helped improve the scrum by a mile. Ready, Korszyck and Schatz were excellent, Gill, Fa'agase and McDuling pretty good up...

Ita Vaea looked fat and out of nick in the City vs NSW country game. Some of his ball carries were savage though. But then again so were some of Schatz's. Ita would be a good get based on history but only at a fairly low price.

Just for some perspective on Tupou, I just came across this comment on the Roar article about him. Apparently one of his school coaches. "Having coached Taniela for about 3 years he spent two years in our 1st xv which we all know about (scored some bloody good trys) and the games that weren’t...

There was word the ARU was working on a solution to get live streaming for the games. Anything further on that?

3 - Slipper 2 - Foley 1 - Hooper HM Simmons, McCalman, Kepu, Phipps and Hodgson

Up front I thought we toiled effectively in some areas. The line out not too bad, the scrum stood up, our ball carries were effective in parts but need to be even better if we're to challenge the Bokke on their home track. Our tackling I would say good in spells but overall a level below what...

^ agreed. I must admit I'm more than a bit anxious about the Hollywood recruitment paradigm that RG and co. seem to subscribe to. My impression is that, historically, relying on bringing in superstars and hoping they drive you forward is largely a pathway to nowhere. The Force, the Brumbies...