End of Year Tour 2012

[Jets]

I'm just glad we aren't playing Scotland. They beat us here when we had more players to select from. They would thump us over there given the depleted squad we have now.

 

[bryce]

I think this might have happened last spring tour - England games are not on BBC, only Sky I think. AUS v WAL will be on BBC and ENG v NZ on Sky.

 

[What2040]

Our line out is incredibly shit right now. We lost 3 throws on the weekend and we are applying very little pressure to the opposition lineout.

I really dont see Pyle as a lineout specialist, maybe in a few more years.

Is that the jumpers fault or TPN's throw ?????

 

[TOCC]

Is that the jumpers fault or TPN's throw ?????

It's not solely TPN's fault if that's what you are suggesting

 

[Braveheart81]

Yeah, surely Robbie Deans and John O'Neill deserve some of the blame for us losing three lineouts on the weekend.

 

[Jiggles]

I’d like to see a 30 man squad something like this.


Holmes – Best LHP in the country over the last year.
Moore
Slipper
Douglas – Needs to work on his attitude at the breakdown
AWH – Can play THL or LHL and has lineout skills. Our lineout is regressing fast. We need him.
Higginbotham – Best 6 all year. Dennis isn’t up to it.
Hooper – Assuming Pocock is still out
Mowen – Samo has been good but he needs to move on, EOYT is it.

Sheenen – Phipps isn’t it, and there are no other options right now thanks to Deans.
Beale
Ioane
Tapaui – Now is the time for him to be blooded. Do it.
AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)
JOC (James O'Connor) – If he isn’t fit then Shipperley
McCabe – I like him, but he isn’t a 12.


TPN
Alexander
Simmons – Need the lineout option at the back end of the game
Schatz – if fit, otherwise Dennis
Phipps
Barnes – probably the best utility we have right now
Shipperley – If JOC (James O'Connor) is fit.


Hanson/Charles – Either or, the point being is we know what Fainga'a has.
Kepu – if he is fit again, otherwise Robinson. Robinson needs to hit the treadmill
Pyle – Needs to be blooded
Gill
Dennis
Harris
Fainga'a
Kingi – left field but covers halfback and fullback….. and there is no one else.

 

[Jets]

I would love to see Kingi go. He is a great bench option for the team as he can cover 9 but can also play wing or 15 if required. Also has an attacking mindset.

 

[qwerty51]

When he can make his provincial side he can get a go.

 

[KevinO]

I'd like to see Mitch Inman in the squad, he is a hard running center that is still young and would improve from the experience.

Have to agree that you can't take Kingi, he did not get enough game time to justify a Wallabies place. But than again with Deans who knows!

 

[Sir Arthur Higgins]

it think you'll see cummins, inman, neville, white (if recovered from surgery), timani (who for some ridiculous reason you are excluding in favour of AWH who is zero chance of a call up - particularly if deans is still in charge) in that squad.
i'd even suggest that if tomane is healthy he will be back in there.

 

[Eyes and Ears]

I know he isn't a lineout specialist, but how is Fardy's injury going? He was the most consistant week in week out body shifting Australian lock of the year. If some of our more 'talented' locks had his attitude to the breakdown, we would be going pretty well.

Pretty sure he is out until 2013 - shoulder recon, I thought.

 

[RugbyReg]

I'd be taking the following squad:

Fullbacks:
James O'Connor
Bernard Foley

Wings:
Nick Cummins
Drew Mitchell
Lachie Turner
Joe Tamone

Centers:
Adam Ashley-Cooper
Pat McCabe
Berrick Barnes
Mitch Inman

Flyhalf:
Kurtley Beale

Scrumhalf:
Nick Phipps
Brett Sheehan

No 8:
Wycliff Palu
Ben Mowen

Flankers:
David Pocock
Michael Hooper
Scott Higginbotham
Dave Dennis

Locks:
Kane Douglas
Sitaleki Timani
Cadyn Neville
Hugh Pyle

Props:
Sekope Kepu
Ben Alexander
Benny Robinson
Paddy Ryan

Hooker:
Stephen Moore
Tatafu Polota-Nau

 

[qwerty51]

That took a while to realise, mainly because it didn't look that out of place.

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

So who is likely to be available to tour who currently isn't playing?

 

[Jnor]

Poey, JOC (James O'Connor), Kev would be definite chances

 

[Waylon]

1 win is a real possibility.

Italy - win
France/England - could go either way
Wales - loss

Plenty of action to play out beforehand though. Coaches? Captain? Cooper? Injured?

Oz undefeated

 

[Inside Shoulder]

I'd be taking the following squad:

Fullbacks:
James O'Connor
Bernard Foley

Wings:
Nick Cummins
Drew Mitchell
Lachie Turner
Joe Tamone

Centers:
Adam Ashley-Cooper
Pat McCabe
Berrick Barnes
Mitch Inman

Flyhalf:
Kurtley Beale

Scrumhalf:
Nick Phipps
Brett Sheehan

Inman before Tapuai?
No way.
Inman is unlikely ever to be a test player.
Tapuai already is and has a big wrap which he will be given the chance to justify, as he should be.



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[topo]

I'd be taking the following squad:

Fullbacks:
James O'Connor
Bernard Foley

Wings:
Nick Cummins
Drew Mitchell
Lachie Turner
Joe Tamone

Centers:
Adam Ashley-Cooper
Pat McCabe
Berrick Barnes
Mitch Inman

Flyhalf:
Kurtley Beale

Scrumhalf:
Nick Phipps
Brett Sheehan

No 8:
Wycliff Palu
Ben Mowen

Flankers:
David Pocock
Michael Hooper
Scott Higginbotham
Dave Dennis

Locks:
Kane Douglas
Sitaleki Timani
Cadyn Neville
Hugh Pyle

Props:
Sekope Kepu
Ben Alexander
Benny Robinson
Paddy Ryan

Hooker:
Stephen Moore
Tatafu Polota-Nau

Think the Reds need a bit of a leg-up for next year, Reg?

 

[RugbyReg]

wow I didn't even pick that up? Well I guess they would be nice and fresh, fit and strong for the 2013 season.

 

[Jnor]

And we have now enetered the Postparochialist Era