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Agree. Problem is if rocket has an average game he wont have been able to step up to an international level. If he has a blinder reds fans wont know the difference between a pacific island team and a true international test.....

Yeah I guess he looked pretty average against the Blues. Wouldn't cut it against real opposition......

The loss of O'Conner will not impact the team as much as Robinson. He is an exceptional player but it seems in Deans eyes he is still a winger. At least we have depth on the wing. A team with Ioanne/Mitchell (or davies if mitchells recovery is derailed) is not that much weaker. If he establishes...

Drew on twitter tonight "Everything went as planned today at the mechanics so I'll be running next week.. Doc couldn't be happier with how things are going.."

Anyone know the exact wording of the playoffs - is it number of wins or win loss ratio before PD?? The sharks lost one less than the tahs (had a draw) so their win loss ratio is actually better than the tahs even though they have the same no of wins. So if its win loss then sharks finish above...

Thanks Bruce for posting the exact laws - my recollection was "use it or lose it" but I've almost never heard it called. This is part of my gripe - it rarely sees to be refereed that way. Eventually the scrum goes down as it must and if an offence cannot be found or the cause is unclear a reset...

as opposed to the self belief they have in someone else??

Ah the air of superiority of those who champion the dark art of scrummaging never ceases to amuse me. Of course those who find multiple cynical scrum resets dull must not understand the "intentions and dynamics" of forward play and would prefer to watch an opportunistic intercept. (even with...

Dont get me wrong - the scrums are a vital and intriguing part of our game that sets it apart from that other code. Yes I enjoyed our all too brief foray into scrum dominance but my opinion on the 5m scrum would not change if it was the wallabies. Their is no incentive to clear the ball until...

Actually it wasnt a general comment on scrums. It was a comment on dominant 5m scrums, of which the ABs and crusaders are recent examples. Cant exactly cite the reds / wallabies, as they grab the ball as fast as they can, usually from a backpedalling,wheeling mess! Whats with the trolling...

Was not meant to be a negative cheating thread - simply an observation. Perhaps I should have left team names out of it. The tahs do the same thing and look what its done for their viewing audience. At least the ABs and crusaders have many other facets to their game. The point I was making is...

I didn't think Ritchie could collapse a scrum from no 7??

Both teams employ the same tactic with 5m scrums due to their perceived scrum dominance against the wallabies / reds. If they don't get the dominant hit in a 5m scrum they simply don't take the ball from the scrum (even if it has been cleanly won and the scrum is stable) Eventually as it can't...

ppssstt Raugeee - ill let you in on a secret. Rugby is the game they play in heaven. One cannot criticise the referee or else one will appear to be a bad sport. One must first say how well the opposition played - how they deserved to win. Then point out how many careless errors your team made...

Didnt pick the pocock incident in real time - I was more focussed on the cynical line run by croft and tindall which essentially took out genia and AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) in defence. Marginal but probably just OK and not much worse than what Australia and NZ have done for the last few years.. The pocock incident...

Cant agree more. We do not seem to be able to adapt our game plan on the run. When Wales surprised us with the wheel and drive, we did not have the nous to work out a counter. Same when England came at us with a more expansive game than we perhaps expected. What happened to the supposed smartest...

In the few scrums we saw I didn't see any real dominant hits or wheels from England as with Wales, and didn't see the front row splintered. Just the usual collapses and penalty lottery. Forgive me if I am a little cynical about collapses. I have seen the wallabies opponents do it deliberately...

hmmmm... think you better watch the replay again. As others on this forum have said the tackle was completed by flood and palmer, and neither released and allowed genia to play the ball. Palmer actually deliberately lies all over him and gets in the way of the wallaby support players to further...

Interesting to see al the doomsdayers come out calling for heads again after a loss. England played very well, Australia very poorly. Despite this England only managed to score twice which against Australia would usually not be enough. One of these tries was a length of the field effort against...

I agree it was quite tragic, although not surprising......