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No, I'm saying Cheika doesn't like change because we can see it in his actions. He played Ned Hanigan for like 80 a game for like 12 games or something. He had zero back up fly halves in his squad. The only real changes he made to his squad were forced, he didn't experiment with his sides...

Karmichael said it in an interview, actually the person conducting the interview said that he was training at 15 all camp, and Karmichael expanded on that and spoke about it.

I was making reference to K-Hunt literally training all Wallabies camp at 15, no mention of playing anywhere else, then game day told 'oh you're playing 12 today.'

Yeah, to my mind the centres are a hot mess. Both Kerevi and CFS have shown flashes of brilliance in the centres but they have also been god awful in defence at times too. I think Rona is a fine player but he's exactly that -- a fine player nothing special. TK has been awful in every game I've...

You say that like Tony McGahan is an awful coach? We don't need two defensive coaches at the Reds, McGahan has perviously been the Wallabies Defence Coach after a bad stint with the Rebels we are likely picking him up for pennies on the dollar. Not saying that McGahan is necessarily doing an...

The only way I can see us going with both Pocock and Hooper and Pocock not playing 8 is if we played Higgers at 8. Timu isn't ready to play 8 at test level he doesn't hold the ball at the back of the scrum well enough yet, although on a defensive scrum could be at 8. Plus, when I've seen him...

Lance is a good player, at least he's playing well this season, I wasn't even saying he's the best option at fullback, I was saying he's a good kicking option at fullback. Same as Hodge. I wasn't even saying Hodge should necessarily play fullback just that if the position was open to...

Cutting back in, finding work, lots of wingers play like that.

FoxSports have him having missed two, but regardless it is impressive, however he's only making a tackle every 17 min, 16 if we consider tackle attempts. To contrast this Perese is every 13 (8) min, as is Ngamanu is 13 (10) with close to similar minuets games etc. Daugunu is making a tackle...

Firstly regarding all your points about Folau's attack all of those things he could do from the wing, in fact they would all be amplified on the wing In rough order of appropriateness Beale, Lance, Hunt, perhaps Godwin; in the past when we have had Quade - Foley, and obviously DHP could...

Regarding Perese being benched, I'm not sure we can actually read too much into that given some of the other players who have been benched by Thorn. It's quite clear Thorn has his own criteria for selection, Quade, Karmichael, Tuttle at times all surprisingly not in the 23. Then consider...

First don't forget Daugunu (eligibility), but one of those three Queensland back three should really move to fullback. Both Daugunu and Perese are probably too skilled to be left on the wing permanently.

Is there consensus as to who is raw/outright better out of Pococok or Hooper at the moment? Obviously selections aren't made in a vacuum (although sometimes we are left to wonder with recent selections) but in terms of just 'who is better' who is better out of Pocock and Hooper? I get the...

I instinctively would have had Perese at 15 but I think it's pretty close between he and Daugunu at 15. One of them MUST move to fullback for us going forwards they are too good to be limited to only playing on the wing. I feel like Daugunu is being targeted in defence to limit his attack...

Mostly because he wasn't being picked for the Wallabies, he was killing it with the Brumbies and offered everything we need. Tui has been mooted as a potential solution to our Pooper issues, as he bends the line and would be a genuine line-out option. He's got the capacity to play at test...

Difference with Finga'a is he can jump in a line-out, and has some ball running. Not the total package, but would give more balance. A friend had a crazy idea, (maybe crazy like a fox) could you play Tupou at 8, I mean wouldn't help your line-out at all, but would help the ball running.

While I accept they are all untested we really should be exploring options because my point is we need an alternative. Guys we should be looking at: Higginbotham Valetini Tui Holloway Fainga'a Hardwick Scott-Young Wells Korczyk Cottrell Assuming fit Higgers obviously, Valetini has shown he...

The question is hardly how many wins did we get with Pocock and Hooper, the question is how effective (especially more recently) have Pocock and Hooper been. Particularly when we consider how many/some teams have 'figured it out'. Further if we give them an NBA-esqu number ranking saying...

If we assume for sake of the point that it's proven that playing them both would actually be worse than playing the alternative, does it matter that they are the top two (let's assume 1B and 2A)? I do think it's reaching a point where if they don't perform together likely over this series...

Higgers isn't even getting close to that conversation? He play pretty well last week, has been a very good test quality player for a long time, obviously he's gotta prove himself to be at that level over the next two games but he can't play 6 in a successful Wallabies team while we wait on the...