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If its true that Bell is out, putting Jack Barrett up against Taniela Tupou is absolutely insane. Pick an old scrummaging loosehead from Shute for this week. I thought last week the hooker we pulled out from Shute held his end up, we need a similar loosehead replacement.
Last chance saloon for both teams I think to make the top four. Mathematically that's untrue, but realistically both teams need to show some real form starting Friday.
Both teams have senior players out - Tahs mainly front row, Rebels mainly backrow.
Tipping on who shows up and who doesn't...
That's three close losses in the first five rounds. We all knew we had a hard draw, but its pretty heartbreaking to lose all three. Nothing to do but get back on the horse.
Amongst the dross and claims by others that we were hopeless, to get that close to the Drua in that heat and humidity at...
Who do you drop to put him on? The worst performer in that starting pack IMO is Gleeson. And the Drua are big boys who need stopping quickly so maybe that's why they are still selecting him to start.
This is the A side and nothing depends on the result. Bowen is young and very talented. If this was the Super side playing I would agree with you but its not. He gets to try things, get experience, learn what works in a situation that has nothing hanging on the result. If they get pumped by 50...
I don't want to promote false hope! But in 2014 we went W-L alternate for the first six or seven rounds. Lost to the Brumbies in Canberra. Didn't lose another game. We are still in early season mode, gradually putting our game plan together because last year we didn't have one all year.
We have...
Feluiai is in for an interesting night. If he can make all his tackles he should get 8/10 in the ratings.
Strachan on for the place kicks seems like the change the Rebels needed 12 months ago. Gordon is not a place kicker and its just doing his confidence huge damage to ask him to step into...
Its going to be a very long season for both those teams based on tonight's display. All the kiwi teams will put 50+ on them. Given the Tahs are going to get trampled for the next 5-6 weeks at least, all we've got left are the Brumbies and the Reds. Now who do I follow?