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Problem is, you're supposed to attack their weakness with your strength, which with our scrum, is a bit like trying to shag a beautiful woman with a semi. We'd need to be really committed and accurate to pull it off.

If he's written it though, it's a piss poor performance. That said, he's been absolutely squeaky clean since the incident with Dingo.

Oh, well...yeah, I was assuming would all be sorted before he was called up.

He'll join the squad at the back of the 2nd row cue, and work his way up from there.

To be fair, Kuridrani is still a bit gun shy on that shoulder he injured early in the season. To'omua was just back from 6 weeks out, so having his instinct and timing spot on was going to be tough. He was also then knocked out in the first few minutes, then did his other ankle.

Mate anyone who wants to, does. Criminalisation doesn't make it harder to obtain. You could even argue that by taking away the 'doing something illegal adrenaline rush", the rates of use among the young would decrease. I do love how many people have outed themselves on this thread though :p

They WERE legal until about 50 odd years ago. Marijuana was criminalised in the 50's to crush the hemp market.

Foley also gave away a try at the other end earlier by coming out of the line and jamming in, giving NZ an overlap. NZ were in our 22 at the end, because no one other than White had made any attempt to organise themselves for the clearing kick. We cant pick and drive for 2 minutes on our 22...

Legalise it all, sell it like alcohol and tax it, use the tax money for preventative education. Crime plummets, as a huge chunk of organised crime is about drugs, prisons are then reserved for the one's who deserve it. Plus, you cut overdose rates massively, as the quality doesn't vary and...

As long as Ruan is staying?

Sure, I agree they have experience. Palu has spent 10 years and never showed up v NZ or SA. McCalman has run himself to a standstill trying to make an impact, and has been a fairly lightweight 8. I really love the guy, but he's not someone who will make metres in tight when several people...

Yeah, that sounds like him ;) He's not a starter yet, but after those numbers (which also don't include his maul defence) I don't see how you could NOT take him. I don't get the logic in taking 3 options who are clearly not as good?

Why? He's wiped the floor with all the other options at 8 in every category except the lineout. He has the highest workrate, AND the highest impact on the game. Everyone else is a high workrate but low impact or vice versa option. He's not a starting 8 yet, but he's certainly the best...

Just been reading through that Number 8 by the numbers article, been waiting a while for it, so a HUGE thank you lads for putting that together. Looking at those numbers (and ignore the offloading/passing bit, he's got really soft hands and an awesome offload, just hasn't been used this...

If Foley is our 10, Lealiifano must be the 12. Foley is not creative enough to go with To'omua. If Cooper starts, To'omua is the 12.

I'm pretty confident about this game. The Canes haven't beaten us for four years, we don't have a hoodoo with them, unlike the Crusaders. They haven't played finals footy before, and in front of a full house will be under a lot of pressure, and very few squad members with the experience of...

I drove the Vaea bandwagon out of the station in November ;) Choo choo!

Absolutely, which is why i'd have McCalman or Higgers as the starting 8, and bring Vaea on with Pocock after 55mins. When Skelton goes off, someone needs to fill his role of being an enormous human.

He might bo still carrying a few hundred kilo's of flab, but his workrate has been nothing short of astonishing this year. Watch the Stormers game again, and check out who is the one most often tracking back to support his fullback after clearance kicks. He's not just topping the run stats...

I meant much smaller packages ;)