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Isn’t he Penisini’s centre partner? Bring him along as well.

Yes that’s what I was alluding to.

I think maybe Eddie wants Ikitau to have the run in the BaaBaas game and if he announces him as the replacement he won’t be able to play?

Interesting though, I could see Ivan backing him to make the switch. And possibly wanting to get involved himself, if they get the threepeat there isn’t much more they can achieve at the Panfers. As we have seen with Angus Crichton there is detail in these contracts we don’t see I.e he can...

He won’t get broken just from playing minutes, he would play the whole game if it was up to him. But yes, if it gets to the point it’s in the bag take him off.

I think he rates him, he wouldn’t be there otherwise. He’s just not quite test ready.

I wondered about that as well, but more found it interesting that he was preferring Schoupp over Zane. However I now think it is more about easing Pone into the game rather than throwing him into the cauldron from the get go. Which makes sense, Slips will be fine and Pone can come on to bring...

They are fit enough by the time they play, the issue is the amount of extra work they have to do to get there.

It was the same in 2007, i had young kids and took very little interest in it.

We are going to debt fund it rather than equity fund it. It seems McLennan has secured the $90m and presumably he’s run the numbers on what the equity funding would cost and the long term implications of the IP sale and gone with the former. That’s what he is good at.

Agree with all the sentiment above, I think the meme reflects the opinion of the person who made it, not that of either of the people who are in it.

Almost. We have a once in a generation golden opportunity to right the ship coming up. Officially that starts in 2025 however I believe it starts at 5am on Monday morning - we need to flog Wales so that we at least make it through to the quarters and start generating some interest in the sport.

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Its because we are complacent. Our coaches just have the 'our players are better than yours' attitude and spend most of the time practicing sophisticated game plans that we aren't good enough to execute. Fitness obviously isn't ignored completely but it's not given enough of a priority.

The general commentary from Hammer & Waugh, and I saw something from Joe Roff the other day as well. Harrison also is quite vocal about it. Being vocal and actioning aren't the same thing of course. It does seem we are heading towards centralisation though, which hopefully would instill a...

Note that Robbie Deans referred specifically to the 'federated' system, the inference being that it's systemic of that model. Hence the move to a centralised one. On that, I knew the past three coaches have identified the fitness issue, I didn't realise Deans had as well. Link is the missing...

Definitely insightful: “In Australian rugby, that risk level is always highest when players come out of Super Rugby and into the Wallabies, and because their fitness is considered woefully inadequate for Test rugby they get flogged for a few weeks. Without sufficient rest, multiple players...

"Shock' would definitely be an overstatement if it happens considering most thought he deserved to be dropped from the starting xv after the Argentina game but not thrown completely on the scrap heap. However, as you allude to it could just be a Canberran journalist assuming he is next in line...

You'd think it would be either him or Porecki, with whichever one it's not being named vice captain along with Slipper, and Kerevi reserve captain of the backs and Valetini reserve captain of the forwards.