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That's not true. His style has always been as a [relatively quiet] facilitator. People were politicking for him to attack the line more often, so he now does, but he's still a facilitator, continuously setting up the players around him. He just doesn't do it using long passes or a chess-like...

BeIN's not an Australian broadcaster so the law doesn't appply to them.

Excellent analysis, Highlander35.

Also, the broadcasting organisations that value the away tests most aren't the same broadcasting organisations that value the home tests, so packaging them theoretically reduces the price.

Everyone knows that the answer to every complex question is to be found in Internet forums. So much talent, thwarted by life's cruel pyramid. It's almost enough to make one get off the couch.

If it's anything like previous Wales vs. Wallabies November games, it'll be decided on a surfeit of tries.

To be fair, Pfitzy was talking specifically about scrummaging. We don't know yet if Thor will be a test-quality scrummager. Many a promising prop has fallen down that particular crack. His ball running ability is unquestioned.

Maybe I didn't make myself clear. There's no evidence that Larkham's aspirations aren't firmly fixed in the present. I'd hope that when you employ someone your perception of their aspirations has some basis in reality.

To be fair, that's what Larkham's doing, at least as far as that quote goes. "That's a long way down the track. I haven't really thought about it too much but I think as a coach I certainly have aspirations to get to the top." is about as demure a statement of personal ambition as you could...

Damn right, which is the real danger of parasitic journalism. It damages its host.

The chances of Cheika being sacked are zero, unless he accidentally shags his in-house aromatherapist and gets found out in a major Snapchat scandal.

Exactly. Spiro's formula is to feed the trolls. He picks some populist trope (Cheika out!), invents a narrative as fact (Cheika WILL be sacked!), and flops out some universally unacceptable alternative as the obvious solution (Larkham in!). It gets everyone clicking. It must make the...

Some time back. It's the running-twenty-meters-to-biff-a-bloke-when-you-have-the-ball bit that's new.

I think the loss of Tomane was one of the reasons for signing Koroibete. Joe was going overseas to earn big bucks regardless. The reality is that English and French club contracts are worth much more than ARU top-ups. There's going to be a continuous flow of Wallabies to Europe for money and...

To be fair, that was a character in an Ibsen play. I'm not sure Ibsen agrees with Dr Stockmann, the "enemy of the people".

His 'good' aggro. Running twenty meters to biff a bloke when you have the ball is awesome. Running twenty meters to biff a bloke when he has the ball is a yellow.

I think that Simmons suffers reputationally from being too "Queenslandy", but that's a can of worms. ;-) He plays better than his reputation.

Clearly the future, so may as well start now. But Simmons is still a contender.

I'd be cutting him some slack for that, Joe Blow. 13 is a notoriously difficult defensive position to play. Speight's a quality defender on the wing.

Based on Cheika's opinion. That's why his badge says "Coach", and ours say "The Internet". If we want the authority to pick the team then some additional work is required, even if we are secretly better at it. Personally I agree with him, but then I've watched Koroibete play. He has an ability...