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Have to disagree with that. Gordon appeared to have almost no autonomy, any ball he got he just dutifully shovelled to Kerevi or occassionaly someone else to truck up. We never presented him with multiple running options and rarely even played out the back. Watch the Rebels attack from earlier...

Gday Nick

He was fit to play vs Georgia. It wasn't a matter of Eddie not wanting to risk him, he genuinely thought he wasn't deserving of a place in the squad. Anyone defending Jones, as Doran has laughably done on the roar today, needs to have a think about this.

Would have been the best suited to the limited gameplan too

I agree about firing up the backline attack but I wouldn't get my hopes up. Eddie has come in with a pre-conceived notion that our players are too dumb to play with any detail, said openly that he's sick of us copying NZ teams, and decided that the best way forward is to instead 're-establish...

Glad also that Ikitau is fit and ready to get on the piss with the Brumbies boys in Japan while we're carrying multiple injured players and Petaia is repeatedly kicking the ball away in the attacking 22

Hope Gordon can shrug it off and this WC doesn't ruin him long term. Being asked to play an unnatural gameplan that doesn't suit his natural strengths then being dragged when it doesn't work. Ironically that left us chasing points with poor old Donaldson in the hot seat, who is less suited to...

Hopefully we see a change in tactics missing 2 of our key power players. Fiji will really fancy themselves.

And just doing his job might actually be enough if our gameplan remains as it was on the weekend - he's not required to chime into the backline or otherwise be an attacking threat because all we did was bash it up one or two passes max off the ruck.

Lot of chat about keeping our powder dry, I hope this is what was happening because the one out bashing up we served up this morning won't cut it against the best teams, and maybe not even against Fijii next week... Jones has talked constantly about 'not copying the kiwis' and playing what's in...

Re Arnold, gets through plenty of cleanout work on attack. Complements that starting pack with multiple ball carrying options really well. Frost on the bench should be the go

(Whispering) Cody Taylor's cleanout bore some resemblance to Swain on Tupea.

Holloway played some decent games at the end of last year I thought, but he has certainly never played a test match anywhere near as good as T Hooper in Dunedin last month.

It has to be a Brumbies supporter because it would seem no-one outside the 5 of us had actually seen Hooper play. Anyone who had would have seen the obvious potential.

Media commentary in the smh at the time the squad was announced, which suggested he would have been ready for the first match and hadn't heard from Eddie, concerns me. I wonder if Jones has decided he's not big enough.

First rugby article he's ever written that doesn't contain a glaring error. Appropriate level of respect being shown to Hooper there.

I played for 12 years, refereed for 26 years and coached for quite a few years.

Wait now you're telling me you know Hoiles as well?

My head is spinning. You're a moderator - if I don't even know anyone involved in pro rugby, am I still allowed to post here?

What does erudite mean? I'm dumb.