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Random question - who would be in charge of Wally now that Jorgo is gone. Nongoorr?

I was pondering on number 1 when I first read it as well. Its likely considering all the negative press this week. Bringing in Foley might look like panic stations but Ikitau would be easily explainable as he is returning from injury, so I reckon he’s been told advised to do that.

You are right but there isn’t much we can do with the current available personnel to correct that, is there? Except to try Gleeson over McReight. All we can really do is try to fire up our backline attack with as much ball as we are able to secure, and use our set piece as much as possible.

Understand that sentiment, it’s certainly safer. I reckon we need to go the other way though, try to get a lead then bring Donaldson on to control things from the back, take Suli off then

So thinking about this game, we need to at least level up with Wales, so we must win and deny them a bonus point, or at least get one ourselves in the process. Wales will be playing boring test match rugby and happy to win by a point, so I’m thinking we are going to pick a team that’s designed...

I wouldn’t be surprised if that is the reason they are reconsidering Pietsch, but I doubt they would put him straight into the 23, Eddie will have already selected that for Wales and I doubt Jorgo was in it. Article also says Foley is still in Europe.

Uelese is just out for Wales right? Pietsch (if true) is in for Jorgensen - not that I'm advocating that - but if Uelese is out for the QFs then they'd bring in another hooker for him then. Reading the Doran article it sounds like Pietsch was to come in but that's now being 'reconsidered'...

This would be the smart thing to do. He obviously wouldn’t play this week though and it’s academic if we don’t at least level up with Wales on the pool ladder. Otherwise it should be Foley assuming quade is still ignoring calls.

The GBR-Au podcast this week is a good listen (disclaimer: I haven’t finished it yet). Drew Mitchell in particular doesn’t miss.

Not in the quarters.

History has them bowing out in the quarters. Given they will be playing either NZ or France there is a fair chance it will happen again.

So if Eddie is to eat a bit of humble pie (unlikely) and accept that it's experience and not youthfulness we need to dispose of Wales in the required fashion, then we could be looking at something like the below (assuming no squad changes): 1. Bell 2. Porecki 3. Faamausili 4. Frost 5. Philip 6...

I think the top 3 from each pool automatically qualify? Plus we are hosting so even if we lose to Wales and Portugal we're in.

I think it comes down to who the alternatives are - none of the Super coaches fit the bill, maybe Kiss in a couple of years time, but right now I can't think of a coach worldwide who might be a genuine candidate.

A lot, like me, just back the team regardless of who is in it and selecting it. However, the general school of thought is that Rennie should have been kept until after the RWC.

I can understand Eddie's desire to inject a bit of youth into the squad. Even if he were to run with what is largely understood to be his favoured 23, what I can't understand is why he wouldn't largely fill the other 10 places on the wider squad with those experienced players that are topic of...

At the end of the day if we can't get a bonus point win against Wales we don't deserve to be in the quarter finals anyway. I'm expecting us to bounce back though.

Yeah, the reality is that any game plan has to ensure that we score 4 tries, Wales score less than 4 and don’t finish within 7 points of us.

I’m going ok in the RWC one but the Superbru locks the round when there are 4 starting lineups announced. I didn’t realise this would happen and hadn’t even made any changes from the previous week because I thought you would at least be able to make changes to players in teams who hadn’t played...

Breakdown specifically