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GPS also have a 5th grade team, so mens numbers aren't too bad. What they don't have this year is a Women's team

Yeah. If they had not lost to RSA by 3 points in the QF then they would have a had a top 4 finish again, which given the closeness of the Mens competition would have been a great achievement. Fine margins in the Mens competition.

Pretty good result for the Women given they had six first string players unavailable for Vancouver. Great experience for the all the developing players who had to front up for this tournament. I believe Maddison Levi, Bienne Terita and Sariah Paki will all be available for the next tournament...

I understand that Schmidt has indicated he might stay on in a consultancy role dependent on who is appointed as the coach. If this is true then I suspect RA will have this at front of mind in their selection process which may effectively rule some candidates out and others in.

The tournament performance should see AUS move from 8 to 6 in the standings, which was not too bad coming from the pool of death.

Going to be tough with Hutchinson, Sergeant and Jimmy the Jet all out injured

Thanks to all you guys who provided updates.

Updates very much appreciated. Hope the Finals go well.

Many thanks. I don't use Instagram

Are you able to provide updates as we don't seem to be able to get access to results at all.

Is 'financial capacity' the right term, or are you talking about a willingness to pay players rather than not pay players and invest in player development internally. Some of the clubs in your lower tiers have no debt and healthy bank accounts.

This is accurate but I would go further. His overall stats were poor, his reading of where to be positionally when off the ball is poor, his lack of urgency to get back in support of his other outside backs when the opposition kicks through is poor. His tackling technique is poor and his...

Aus and Ken both lost two in our pool but as our for and against was better we went through as one the two best placed third teams.

He needed Sua'ali'i to run on an angle to get closer to him in support. He just ran straight downfield and so remained out of support range for a pass from Tupou. Sua'ali'i is far from an international level OC for me and his defence skills continue to be poor. I think we would be best served...

So he missed around one third of his tackles and you want to bin him, yet in the England match Sua'ali'i missed half his tackles and was apparently a god. Even in the thirty minutes in this match he attempted around four of five, made one or two, injured himself in another by leading with the...