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I just read another Qld red academy prop has been poached by France. University of Queensland loosehead prop Kingbenjamin Swerling is living proof that a strong club rugby campaign can open doors, both in Australia and abroad. The highly-skilled wrecking ball will be taking up a Top 14 Academy...

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/vision-emerges-of-sacked-nrl-reporters-alleged-crash/news-story/e2122ee667660596ed8eedc693ef82e3?amp Fox NRL journalist James Hooper DUI. Absolute cock head.

King, Alatini and Langi all tip the scales at 125kg. Very exciting to size some size coming through. Leota over in France is listed at 130kg, which is even more impressive given his height. I do wonder if Van Neck has what it takes to get to test standard. Perhaps a bit on the light side.

LHP Lington - yes if given time in the squad. Marley - same as Ieli but not sure his scrummaging is that strong. THP De Luttis - yes if able to stay healthy King - not enough time and needs a fair bit of work with his scrummaging Alatini - not enough time and wouldn’t want to rush coming off...

Yeah not ideal. I don’t want to throw him against SA. But I could see him getting a go on spring tour. Or perhaps against the ABs (he’s at least played their LHPs) or Argentina. We desperately need to get another genuine THP to back up AAA, TT and Nonggorr in time for the RWC.

Yeah until De Luttis gets fit. Probably gonna have to give him some time in the saddle earlier than we’d like.

Well I meant temp wise really. But yeah fingers crossed there’s no rain. Not sure if we’ll be in an El Niño or La Niña.

He always looked good but can’t get a consistent swing at it. I thought he looked dangerous at fullback because he actually has a massive boot, good under the high ball and deceptively fast in broken play. One of the franchises needs to snap him up. Reds played it pretty well by supporting him...

Yeah @Crashy was calling for the tournament to be played in September. Wouldn’t work with the other codes. Weather wise it works better anyways.

He’s scrummaging is not solid at test level. There’s enough evidence to show that he struggles to make the step up from super to the next level. At no point in this season did I think he dominated his opposing prop.

We’ve had him and Marky Mark (Nawaqanitawase) in the same backline I’m pretty sure

Because I mentioned Siya Kolisi? I genuinely think about his acl recovery quite a lot. Never seen someone return so quickly and to pretty much the same intensity as him. Very radical approach however it was done.

We we’re unbeatable against kiwi teams in super au though

He’ll be at the brumbs in that case

Also no aus super side has won anything of note since 2011 2014. It's just highlights how shit we all are.