Dobber,
Postal isn't a patch on the two Brumbies guys but he's a goer and it's always good to see a young bloke get a shot unexpectedly. I wondered why they sent over another 7 over when two is enough for a squad. It was a different case with the three young Super players: any two of them would play in big matches. Then I considered that if Salvi gets injured at the Brumbies then Hooper would have to return. That, and the likelihood that Nuci must be happy with the the balance of the squad even though it has 3 fetchers.
At least it has solved a dilemma for Nuci about which two of the young galacticos to start in big games - not that he would have ever worried about it.
Nicky Price played a lot for SD last year and was coming along nicely and starting to look like a real footie player towards the end, but he hasn't been mentioned much in 2011. I haven't seen him this year in club TV games, or can't remember him. Nicky may have been hurt this year as I have seen him listed at 13 and 15 and the weeks he hasn't been listed in the Ones and I have programmes for, he wasn't listed in the Twos. Saifoloi, the 2009 Oz Schools flyhalf, and in the Oz U20 team, seems to be the preferred by SD at fullback these days and that is one of Nicky's spots.
The only time I saw Price play this year that I could remember was in one quarter of a Tahs trial at Nowra and he missed a couple of boy against man tackles for tries to them, which was not a good look.
I thought the 2008 outside backs did OK and they were mostly Qiders: Morahan Jr. is in the squad, and Shipperly is needed at the Reds. The third Qlder, Price, is a disappointment but his sojourn in AFL did him no favours and we are still watching this space. Anderson from NSW, and who made Oz A Schools was a replacement in the squad last year and would probably have made this one, but for a serious injury.
Not to the point of this thread, because he is too old, but Sills from NSW IIs that year is developing nicely in club rugby and could come good too. Still digressing: the big disappointment now for me in the 2008 tranche of backs is not in the back three, but the centres. Bennetts and Mitchell are fine players still as seniors but they are injured a lot - indeed Mitchell is out for the season as we speak. Thus they are finding it hard to make their mark, and may become tainted as medical jokers, as they say in France.
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