Only one valuable player... Jamie Cudmore
And he might get a yellow card pretty early after the start of the game
Cudmore will be a 50% chance to be more of a liability than an asset. Guaranteed to put the hurt on a few players though. Would like to see a collision between him and TPN! I'm just glad they've finally dropped his younger brother out of the squad, who is awful.
DTH Van de Merwe (Glasgow Warriors) has had a great past couple of seasons on the wing and in the centres for them. Scoring a lot of tries on a team that doesn't get that many.
Jebb Sinclair has just signed with the London Irish after a great churchill cup campaign, plays blindside. big boy at 6'4 and 100kg. very mobile and hits the rucks hard.
as usual we've got some good young props. Frank Walsh is a newfie who's been getting mentored for the past few years by Rod Snow and Mike Cron has been running scrum camps for the national team this year.
in the backs, Conor Trainor is coming into form and its high time nathan hiryama starts to turn his incredible potential and exceptional athletic ability into some great rugby.
Sydney born and raised James Pritchard, captain of bedford in the UK, will rack up the points with the boot, though he's getting a bit long in the tooth these days. too slow for wing and not enough counter out of full back....but I think we need his boot!
In the past 3 years we've beaten Argentina A, France A and Italy A. I'm hoping we'll surprise and make it reasonably comeptitive...sounds like it will be a strong baa baa's team though with guys in the tri nations squad who aren't playing against the big guns playing.
