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I didn’t agree with the people who attacked the RA for showing favouritism by sending most of the Rebels to the Tahs, but this is a stretch. Yes, there was a changeover of players and they lost some talent but they picked up the likes of Tupou, Leota, Kellaway, Lancaster, Kailea, Talatina whilst...

Who are the players NSW aren’t picking though? No doubt I’m missing some but for the most part it seems to me the missing names are Wallabies, injured, suspended or leaving. Pete Samu probably the only one I can think of missing.

And a considerable amount less in defence

Last week it just looked to me like the Reds choose to start their strongest team and bring the rookies off the bench. The Brumbies went the opposite and the flow of the game went accordingly.

On the plus side - if you put that on YouTube that’s the sort of stuff that goes viral and could earn you a tidy pay packet. Just need to make sure you have the right backing tune. Sabrina Carpenter maybe??

Possibly - but Schmidt seems to have consistently preferred others in front of him.

Shows how quickly pecking orders can change too. I thought Nasser was good in the weekend. Has always been good in the set peice but seemed solid around the field too after seemingly slipping to 3rd choice at the Reds this year.

I think that’s my point - the press write the story to get maximum clicks and/or to appeal to their audience. They are necessarily reporting, or even privy to, what is actually happening. But O’Connor was quoted as saying he was happy to make a quick turn around to play Bledisloe and I’m pretty...

Because Leicester require him too. I’m not sure why it is critical for them, and it’s seems needless to me, but given the size and professionalism of most of these clubs I assume they have their reasons.

I feel like the journalists are making good mileage out of this, but there was at least one quote in the last couple of days from O’Connor which indicated this was on the cards and O’Connor, The Wallabies & Leicester had all reached agreement. Journalists are paid to generate clicks though.

I don’t think Paisami’s passes were the biggest issue (or his badly executed kick). Biggest two issues were discpline and losing the battle in the air. Paisami didn’t have mush to do with either of those issues. He didn’t help things with his errors but we were below par pretty much across...

What’s wrong with a bit of optimism :)

Sure. Not saying it’s easy or it’ll be likely. But at the same time our chances are probably as good as they have been for some time. We also could lose by 30 - I’ve just never understood the need to be so definitively negative as some on here.

People really are very fickle. A week ago we seemed to be on the verge of another golden age. One 2 point loss later and we appear to suddenly be shit again in the eyes of some. Fix our discipline (and most of it was very fixable) and we probably win last night. And that is not meant to be...

Would you have said we were likely to beat South Africa at Ellis Park a month ago?