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Flook didn't need surgery did he? Don't know if true, but I thought McDermott had an avulsion, which is a significant injury

That's Christie's take

Genuinely, what would we do without Christie/The Roar. Like him or not, he's the only person putting this info out there. Rugby would just about disappear while Wallabies are on tour without him.

Very similar to the Zoo jersey in my drawer from 2018 (?). Which is not a bad thing, it's a great jersey

I don't disagree with you, but by my count our forwards passed it 37 times last weekend, so our skills aren't stopping us from doing it. (They had 58 carries)

What percentage of modern half back's passes go to the ten?

LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) probably shouldn't have signed a contract with RA until 2028 if that was his plan

This was the subtext of the interview during the week wasn't it? Schmidt basically said against Ireland, JOC (James O'Connor) didn't follow the game plan. Pretty big issue for a coach

Suspect this, and Valetini on the bench, is a reaction to losing 6 lineouts last week.

I don't think there can be any argument that he's breaking a few laws of the game. The refs decision will be if it's clear, obvious and material, and did he interfere with play (ie is it worth penalising?) I could see how the could decide that it wasn't material.

Suspect if Schmidt had his time again then Donaldson would have been selected for this tour. But he had Edmed in the camp, wanted to see what CG can do on potential, and had JOC (James O'Connor) to sub in That's feedback that is so generic as to be meaningless. Every 10 needs to work on their consistency, and...

It's probably how the All Blacks are feeling too edit - with the extra layer of Razor is relying on performances to keep his job

As above - we are getting blown away in the last 10 / 15 mins fairly often at the moment, and often that'd be after the starting 9 leaves the field Someone smart setup a Points for and against while on the field database for every international player

We were only 5 points behind against Ireland at 55mins, we were tied with Italy at 60 mins, we were only 3 points down against England at 58mins, we were only 6 points down against NZ at 69 mins etc etc

I reckon the SA result was a pretty big outlier, which came about because of luck basically. SA were extraordinarily generous with intercepts and turnovers. And now there's no Tom Wright to take advantage of it, and other teams have realized the way to beat us is to pressure our last line with...