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Unclear. He was on short term academy deal with Quins and this seems to pick up when that finishes. It sounds like they've been talking to him for a while though. If I had to guess I'd say that Quins might have kept him if there was no (or less attractive) competition, but they won't be too...

One year academy deal for Nic Lynagh confirmed: https://reds.rugby/news/latest-lynagh-joins-buildcorp-reds-academy-at-queensland-reds-20251110

Personally I don't think Paisami has been anywhere near as bad as others make out (though he has had his issues, like most of our side), the problems with our centres in attack are largely down to tactics and systems. A Paisami-Ikitau pairing is fairly well established over the last few years...

I kind of do as well, but I think it's worth it for the extra teams. It's definitely not as bad as in the smaller tournaments like the under 20s when a genuine contender can miss out. As much as I'd prefer 4 pools of 6 I can understand why that is an unworkable number games/tournament length...

This is the flow for the knock outs: From World Rugby: https://www.world.rugby/news/1017765/rugby-world-cup-2027-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-draw-format-pools-and-dates

I wouldn't be surprised to see Sua'ali'i drop out here, Schmidt did not exactly sound happy with him or the height of his tackling when asked about their discipline in general: Ideally I'd like to see him in the back 3, but if Schmidt does decide to shift him he may also look at him as a bench...

Why don't you want to see Paisami? Acknowledging that this is the team "you want to see" rather than expect to see, there's next to no chance we'll be running a regular 23 without Paisami if he's fit and available. That is also how it should be, as good as Pakeho was for a debutant last year...

I think you've missed the entire point of the conversation. Whether or not the individual players in question are the 'wrong people' or not is largely irrelevant. We can't select whoever we want from where ever they are because there are more factors at play than RA's selection policy.

The problem isn't RAs selection policy, it's that when push comes to shove these players are unwilling or unable to put the Wallabies jersey first and accept selection for us each week. That's not something RA can really do much about.

Glad I watched that already knowing the result, it would've been torture otherwise. Just a few thoughts: I didn't really expect us to rework our systems and alignment mid tour, but we don't seem to have done much at all to fix our high ball issue. I'm not really sure what's worth trying with...

Annan has left the Knights and is currently on a train and trial deal with the Force.

Test match yes, but his last Super Rugby game was a quarter final in June 2024. Understandable that you, a tahs fan, have purged that season from memory too

That's not how the tier system works, it's a very real and formal concept in World Rugby. You cannot lose tier 1 status by losing games and Japan was promoted to tier one (the high performance unions) in 2023...

Italy are a tier 1 nation. They have 5 wins over tier 1 nations since we last played them - Wales (24 and 25), Scotland (24), Japan (23 and 24) and a draw (France 24).

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