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I feel like it’s been shaky most weeks. I figure it’s a bit of a by product of the rotation in the forward pack. But there are two parts. Securing clean ball is a bit worried about but I am hoping will improve significantly over the back half. But a couple of the errors last week like when...

Finally got to watch the game this morning. Not an unexpected result but disappointing none the less. Even more so I think because the Reds blew some absolute chances. HMP was pretty good but the dropped ball was costly. Likewise Fraser dropping the pill cold early on and the driving maul that...

Two good games today. I was lucky enough to go watch the Reds woman live. They were exceptional in the first half & up by 37 points and had the game in the bag at half time. They were all good but I will say Charlotte Caslick is looking very at home in XVs, Lori Cramer is looking at home at 10...

I reckon his Achilles heel has actually been his Achilles heel. Whatever issues he had in off seasons past up until he injured his Achilles he was consistently one of the best Australian Super rugby players and had sone pretty outstanding moments at test level too. He’s never been able to get...

To each their own. The only thing relating to the Storm I’d find worse than listening to Craig Bellamy moaning about how unfair the Storm were treating when they got caught cheating on the salary cap and/or when they have on numerous occasions trained players in tactics which have disregarded...

Yeah - I know. My juvenile sense of humour couldn't resist.

Also doesn’t help the Brumbies that Carter is in WA these days :)

Keith Miller would disagree.

I agree with your take on the form - but then I look at Meredith at the Brumbies. 1st game he was so/so, second game better and third game pretty good. Time in the saddle does make a difference. Hopefully HMP shows on Friday night the gap actually isn’t that much.

I’m more comfortable with it with Lynagh on the bench. Kiss has the option to bring him on at half time if he needs to. HMP is only going to get better with exposure and he has a pretty solid squad around him. It also has to be good for his confidence that Kiss backs him to start.

Generally I’m okay with player resting and rotation - both for player welfare manangement a to build depth. But I would have thought it would be pretty straight forward to pick Lynagh and Daugunu for the next two games. Hopefully the speculation in this article is wrong.

I agree that Tupou remains the surest bet in the scrums. I’ll admit I’m concerned with some of his ill discipline at the moment we may get to see how that scenario with the driving lineout plays out.

I don’t actually think Tupou’s scrummaging is that exceptional at the moment. It’s from my view the Tahs scrum hasn’t been any better than passable. Both the Reds scrum & Brumbies scrum appear to be giving oppositions more trouble. Tupou isn’t going to go backwards - and I completely get...

I’m a bit surprised on your stance here. I thought you would applaud the success in bringing fatigue back in as a key part of the game as it used to be for so long before we let teams incessantly stop the game to let their forwards catch a breath. There is lots of info around on both the...

Nonggorr missed most of the year with injury

Did he though- or did we just all except that narrative that Stiles put out I don’t know the answer - maybe Thorn 100% did, but it is also without doubt that Stiles has a vested interest in convincing Tupou that was the case. One thing is true - Tupou has never been in the same physical shape...

I love Nella. But on current form I agree he’s no sure thing. With regards to Skelton I’m happy to get behind Joe whatever way he goes. But I do think our health at lock is a mile in front of where it was 18 months ago.

I think Pollard is likely in the 23 and Gleeson is definitely in the squad and likely in the 23 as well although Uru is certainly giving things a shake. Edit: Also think a spot for Skelton is likely but personally I won’t be concerned if they stick with the Aussie based locks. Not at all...

I removed my post above about the women’s game in case anyone was planning to watch on delay. And if you weren’t and you have Stan give it a look. Plenty of great rugby on display. I know that the Aussie women still have some way to go to catch the Kiwis and English but they are definitely...

Cracking game by the Reds women so far today. Forwards putting on a clinic and Sauaso close to unstoppable.