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Is JOC (James O'Connor) over here yet? He'll do!

I reckon Jones has been dubiously thrown into that category. Best super rugby lock but his one test wasn't much chop so he's not up to it? Haha enjoyed Pfitzy's post there. As mentioned earlier, I'm not big on the idea of Fardy at lock anymore either, but with Jones not called up it is either...

All signs seem to point to Fardy moving to the 2nd row with Horwill. Higgers at 6, Skelton on the bench, Carter and Simmons out. I can't see much alternative with Jones not called up.

Just watched the replay. Similar thoughts to last night. I thought To'omua was great for the most part but man of the match is surprising. Kuridrani was head and shoulders above any other player. Izzy would have challenged but for those botched kicks. I can't get on board with the halves...

3 Kuridrani 2 To'omua 1 Izzy HM Higgers

Yeah the Speight dilemma has been made tougher with Kuridrani having an absolute blinder tonight and Horne playing pretty well. Do they ween him in off the bench next week or replace Horne?

I counted 4. So have missed one too - but there were a few that went against us where I didn't catch the number. Regardless, it would be an absolute miracle to see his name on the sheet again next week.

Gee what an epic finish! Great stuff. Initial thoughts: Backline was pretty good across the board. Both centres and Izzy in particular were outstanding. Hooper again the standout forward. Palu is making a lot of errors atm and the side improved out of sight when Higgers replaced him...

Phipps and Foley can't come in fast enough. The shock selection of Beale at fly half has been an unmitigated disaster no matter how you spin it and White has gone bizarrely off the rails. With McCabe out, someone needs to come in to keep Speight's jersey warm for a week. Presumably that will be...

I couldn't really care less either way. I don't think the author could either. I'm confident about one thing - it's divisive of opinion, there is always an opportunity to bring it up with hindsight after a draw and doing exactly that will sell papers. The author or his boss is aware of that...

Was a cracking game in the end. No tries, torrential rain, plenty of expected errors and nothing in it. Australia spent pretty much the entire last 50 minutes with the ball and just couldn't break through while the Kiwis had the best try scoring opportunity of the match early and squandered it...

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Yeah I suspect its too late. Too many people will have already picked their teams with him at outside. It does make it harder though. Especially with all the massive scoring outside backs and no real superstar centre options. He'd be a certainty if listed at centre but very hard to fit at...

AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) was listed as an outside back all year in Super Rugby - probably won't change here. There are always a few out of position to make it interesting.

Exactly. That seems like a strange ad hoc call without any real thought given.

Anyone caught a training session to see who will be kicking goals with Foley dumped? No surprises at all with the pack and only a minor one shifting AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) in, but the fly half call is incredible. What a risk sacking the form fly half of the comp and only recognised goal kicker in the side! You'd...

The change to 3 points for a conversion is flat out bizarre. That's gotta be a millions chance of staying. The other strange one is if the lineout is uncontested, you can just throw it straight to your teammate. That'll be thrown out after a game. The rest look good.

Certainly closer than I was hoping it would! What a week to sack Foley for the first time all year... Anyway, alls well that ends well!

Thanks namtrak! Just confirmed then. Took out the ARU comp by 185 to score a corporate box at the Bledisloe for 5 people with flights and accom! And the Fox comp by 18 to score $10K! I love this game.

Cheers mate. Yeah fortunately have a full on day tomorrow so won't have time to think about it until just before kickoff. Will be a packed house at my place come 7:30pm though! Then they'll kick right in. Will be riding every prop's tackle like a game breaking try!