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The Squad I would pick: Front row: Robinson, Slipper, Palmer, Alexander, Moore, Hanson Locks: Horwill, Douglas, Simmons Backrow: Mowen, Gill, Higginbotm, Palu, Hooper Halbacks: Genia, White Fly-half: Cooper Centres: Lealiifano, AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper), Horne, Barnes Wings: Ioane, Folau Fullback: JOC (James O'Connor), Mogg The...

I just watched the Sharks v Cheetahs replay. While the Sharks had a few guys injured/rested, it still gave an insight into what we can expect from them. They weren't anything special in the first half. The Cheetahs really took it to them, and the Sharks took a while to get going. Once they did...

'You were good but not that good because we were bad' is fast becoming the Waratahs' fans' mantra.

Fairfax is running a story that an Australian Super rugby club is avoiding the ARU salary cap by paying one player's money to a local rugby club as 'ground hire'. The club then pays the player, who then does not have to pay tax. This is all of course rumour and innuendo at this stage but sounds...

There is no doubt it was a nasty tackle, and was high. It deserved a yellow card, but there is a real issue with consistency. You see many tackles like this not yellowed and not cited (see the post from earlier about the Stormers player not even being cited for a close line style tackle). To...

I am tipping Scott 'Higgs Boson' to build on his new found discovery and have a belter and score for the first try. Come on you Reds!

Echoing the thoughts from earlier on in this thread, thank God for that! I was worried before the match with both teams coming off the break and the Rebels having JOC (James O'Connor) and KB (Kurtley Beale) back, and the emotion around Stirling and The Huxtable Police's final games on Aussie soil. But after a solid start for...

Yep, agreed. We should have got the feed in that second last scrum. But didn't and that's that. I can't really believe I am sticking up for Palu, but I think a backrow of Higginbothom-Palu-Pocock gives you more, even though Dennis had a pretty solid game. Also thought Sharpe and Timini were...

We do, and it's a tough one to overcome. I had a different reading to you on the scrum at the end - it looked like a penalty to me (Slipper went in and down first, even if the Scot guy was boaring in a bit), and on TV they showed the scrum end on end and our body positioning, almost to a man...

I think that is spot on Bullrush. Deans is a pretty easy scapegoat - and to be honest he hasn't exactly done a lot to redeem himself to the fans, but I am not convinced all the blame should be loaded on to him tonight. He was the one taking poor options at critical times, that needs to be on the...

I started typing a list of guys that I realised were all injured... so maybe not as different as I first thought! But I do think guys like AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper), Palu, Simmons, Robinson would have all made a big difference.

Why is the excuse getting tired? You can get the best out of your players, but if they don't deserve to be playing for their country they aren't going to perform on the international stage. Our full strength side would have won that match tonight. I don't think that's a huge leap of faith to...

I thought Barnes was alright. He was certainly not the problem, or more accurately, the only problem. We didn't play the conditions at all - going for touch on kickable penalties, but going for goal from 50m in the wet is the best example of that. We were decent at retaining position but then...

I am only coming in late to this, but I have read through most of the posts. I thought what the guys on the Podslam said last week was very astute. The whole Tahs organisation needs a clean out, but because they have never had a really horrible season like the Brumbies last year or the Reds a...