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G-Rob in the SMH is forecasting that Hugh Sinclair will start and that Perese AND Dylan Peitch are 50-50 to play on Friday. Not sure that Sinclair is our second best lock, but she's usually pretty close to the mark.

I think the backs will be Gordon, Edmed, Nadolo, Foketi, Tuipolotu/Perese, Nawaqanitawase, Donaldson with Goddard/Wilson, Perese/Tuipolotu and Jorgensen on the bench. I don't think Jorgensen will start against the Brumbies - they will want to be able to use Nadolo as a strike weapon to overpower...

First game up and the Crusaders at home to the Chiefs. Trials form had the Chief's starting scrum going backwards, but their broken field counter-attack totally on song and Damian McKenzie in absolutely scintillating form. I'll have to miss it live as I'll be headed to Sydney for the Waratahs...

This game could have huge repercussions for the whole season, especially for the Waratahs. One of only two home games against the competition's likely finalists and a loss here would be a huge setback. The Brumbies don't often win in Sydney, while virtually always winning in Canberra. But both...

Thanks for that, I looked a couple of times and couldn't find it.

Looks like the person who used to do the Waratahs has been transferred to the Brumbies site. The Waratahs now don't list their squad at all, or at least they've hidden it so well I can't find it.

Yeah, but I reckon Tom Hooper could be something very special.

How does one get to be tired and enervated at the same time???

I've watched as many of the Aussie trials as I could; some of them inspired a bit of hope the Brumbies, Reds and Waratahs might do OK. I just watched the Blues vs Tribe trial. For the first 20 minutes the Blues took the Chiefs apart, butchered about 5 tries and gave the Chiefs a couple of...

Tom Hooper will be missed. The rest, in my view, are well covered by the alternatives in the squad. Pity a couple of locks weren't on that list.

Only one open side flanker and five No. 8's seems very unbalanced. One injury and the squad is stuffed.

Given that Hooper hasn't played a minute yet, I would start Swinton, Gamble and Harris with a bench of Gleeson and Hooper. Likewise, I would start Bell and Porecki on the bench to ease them back into the team. Seu and Holloway select themselves, with Sinclair on the bench. Our backs are very...

Yeah, but as a final trial before the comp proper starts there was a remarkable lack of precision in most of the play from both teams. Neither look anywhere near ready for next week.

No, he's our Mosese Tuipulotu. Different player entirely, probably more skillful than Laumape though it is VERY early days, but less of a kamikaze missile. Tuipulotu may only play trials this year, but if injuries hit the centres I am very confident he will step up seamlessly. Under the new...

It could definitely have been much worse. Four weeks means he misses Brumbies and the Drua, for six weeks add in the Rebels and the Hurricanes. I don't think we need him for the Drua and the Rebels, he's gone for the Brumbies where we needed his lineout work and field workrate and he could be...

I think the three trials, with the training during the week, will actually be better. The lineout was really bad vs the Reds, I think we lost about five on our own throw. Additionally, the Reds made big yards close to the ruck off set play and their offloading game just killed us. We need a week...

I thought Taleni Seu played quite well again. With Hanigan's knee injury Seu might start against the Brumbies. The lineout was a mess tonight and requires a lot of work. It wasn't immediately obvious what the problem was but it did improve somewhat with Latu in the second half. Defensively...

I paid seven bucks and missed out on about 15 minutes including the first Waratah try. Not a really good outcome and bloody expensive, especially as the camera work is pretty poor. Was my first paid experience on BARTV and I'll think very hard before there'll be a second.

3-2 and win our home games puts us top or second I reckon, not that I expect it to happen.

With Peitch out injured, I suggest Nemani Nadolo is being hidden till the Brumbies game. Although I thought Taleni Seu had a very good first half last week, Sinclair and Holloway need a run before the Brumbies and Seu should get a couple of minutes at the back end anyway. The backrow remains...