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How about this for the Frogs: Slipper Moore Alexander Jones Carter Fardy Hooper Mowen/Higgers/Palu White Cooper Tomane To'omua Kuridrani AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) Folau Simmons and Horwill aren't in form, and need a real kick up the arse. Jones is having a beast of a season and is maturing into a good lock...

Well, actually, i'd say it's the opposite, given his form in recent years. Cooper is a playmaker who needs lots of people running direct lines at holes, and he will turn professional defences into a colander if you give him that. There is no one better in Australia at seeing who the defence...

He's a 6 playing lock.

Ok, the locking pecking order is: Tighthead: Horwill Douglas Carter Skelton Loosehead: Simmons Fardy Pyle Jones

Losing Carter is a huge blow, but Staniforth is a bit of a psycho and should rip in. That Red's back three couldn't kick their way out of a wet paper bag. Mogg and White will be practising their kicks, i'm sure, and will pin the Reds on their tryline at any opportunity. Reds aint going to...

Haha what? If he doesn't play 80 it's only to ensure the quota system of getting as many barely fit Waratah forwards onto the park is being followed!

If Cooper is playing 10, you have to have direct centres. He's the general, the centres are his troops. If they have some ability to direct play when Cooper is buried in a ruck, good, but their primary strength should be the ability to run excellent lines, get over the advantage line, and smash...

There is some serious drivel being spouted in this thread o_O On what possible basis would Folau not be 15? He's just peerless atm, and Mogg is a very clear 2nd atm. Daylight between them and the rest, and KB (Kurtley Beale) needs to be playing at 15 before you can claim he's playing well.

I'm in. In return, you get an avatar of the best photo I can find from the game, perhaps the scoreboard ;)

Hahaha, indeed! However, I meant as a serious call, rather than just a thread boosting rant. Money where my mouth is, i claim $280 if I get it right ;)

I'm calling this for the Brumbies. Didn't want to commit to a call, but got a feeling, so they say. Too much noise and confidence from the Tahs, and too many stupid forwards who are likely to be done technically by being too fired up and losing the plot. Lineout is a big worry for them as...

Right, that should get this thread going along nicely then ;)

RE Dublin Doesn't that just sort of highlight wy the Tahs have been so shit the last 5 years or so and perennial underachievers? Apparently still having a sook because the Wallaby captain had them disciplined for getting shitfaced 3 days before a HUGE, must win test (remember, we'd lost to...

Is the Wig still open? I hear conflicting reports, and being down in Canberra this weekend I would love to hit it up one more time~!!

Fill in captain? 80% win record, and the first time we won four consecutive games at international level for a very long time. I'd say you've got your champion captain, and fill in captains mixed up.

RE Mowen being a better 6 than 8: remember that this neck injury he had, he got after those first few awesome tests. He then lost a lot of power and confidence, just as he moved to 8, and we saw him slowly regaining it on the tour as he recovered. He'd have been a damn good 8 for us, and i'm...

I think because he's medically unfit they're allowed to sign a temporary replacement?

Any word on young Vaea?

Speight is a machine. It's not just his try scoring strike rate, or the fact that a significant percentage of his tries are solo efforts, eg against the Tahs last year, but that he's got such a complete game. He rarely misses a tackle, he's like an extra openside out wide (which is immensely...

No, no, no. This is why our young players go off the rails, we hype them up and insist that they're soo good we HAVE to find a place. They then feel like they're above the team. ATM, Beale is a Tahs bench player at best. He would need to prove his form and fitness, at the Tahs, before...