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Scotland was an aberration, no one would be able to kick well on that pitch. RE his position, flyhalf is his best. 2012 was an astonishingly good season for him, and with To'omua showing he's dominated the 12 jersey in the Wallabies, you'd have to hope that Bernie and Gandalf didn't miss it...

Sure, if they're good enough then they make it. What I meant was we should stop picking players who have potential, eg CFS for the Wallabies before they've even nailed down a Super rugby position. Retallick and Etsebeth came from the U20's and dominated their position straight out, so they were...

I'd like to see a very concerted, global push, to simplify rugby. Identify the key areas, eg the breakdown, scrum and simplify them a bit. I loved the ELV's attempt to do this with the breakdown, and my god it made for some fantastic rugby. Our sports biggest issue, is that it's so...

If we learned anything from this year, it should be the Fardy example. Youth and flash doesn't make a good test player. U20's are important for developing players, certainly, but we need o stop trying to fill the Wallabies with new young and exciting players and forego the knee-jerk reactions...

So, looking ahead to the world cup, i've been mulling this over with a few bot...glasses of Torebrecks Shiraz. Generally, it's rugby lore that ou need 5 world class players in your team to win a world cup. It's also agreed that the rest of your players can't be muppets either. So, do we have...

He'll be fine. Having only one decent shoulder and playing against the Lions and New Zealand doesn't get much tougher in terms of a debut. And aside from a couple of wayward kicks he was very good and will get better and better.

Horwill had a calf strain before that 3rd test and wasn't at full power in terms of the push. Probably has a fair bit to do with it all...

Realistically, RE Sydney we can only have two teams to begin with. Western Sydney Rams, play in Parramatta, and cover from about Lidcombe-ish west. At the end of the day, players good enough for this comp and going to be found, and if someone playing for western Sydney comes from...

Absolutely. Losing even 20% of your power through an entire side of your body will ruin any professional sportsman's season, let alone a rugby player. Lets see how he goes with that extra strength and power back in his game, then judge him. Atm, he's 80% as a winning Wallaby captain, and was...

Ita Vaea is even better, he's one of very, very few players who takes contact like Lomu, in that he doesn't stop when he bumps someone off. Auelua, when he goes for the big smash, stops because he puts so much effort into that hit that he loses his momentum. Vaea has got an amazing ability to...

Ita Vaea.Lets hope he recovers.

Yep, i've never really been convinced by To'omua as a flyhalf. He has all the skills etc required, but just never really seemed to own the game. As a 12 though, I think he's found his position. He seems to revel in being the ball runner who can kick and pass etc. IE not so much the general of...

We had it with George Smith, Latham, Larkham etc. All the greats, and great Wallaby teams, were full of players that the opposition had to change their game plan to nullify. If you have 3-4, then suddenly you've got a team which the opposition CAN'T plan against, because planning against one...

The problem is this: Lealiifano is in for surgery and wont be starting the season, which means we need a 10 if To'omua is to play 12, and we don't really have one with even Super rugby experience. If Lealiifano was fully fit I suspect we might see a switch.

For me, the biggest thing is this: Folau changes the wy teams play us. They are not putting up bombs and waiting for us to drop them like they have for the past 5-6 years. If you have a player who is so devestating that it forces the opposition to change how the play you, you don't then move...

What's with the haste tor ush him back in? This is exactly how young players are ruined, we place such high requirements on them that they just expect to waltz back in. By the sounds of things, Beale is still out getting ratarsed when he wants (this isn't just from that dickhead Weidler's...

You want to put Beale, with his defence issues, in the most demanding position defensively, in the backline?

Ab-so-fecking-lutely. Beale is not a Super rugby class 10, let alone test. He was a Superb schoolboy 10, because at schoolboy level your best back plays 10 and everyone else finds their position. He's an excellent fullback, but Folau has the wood on him in EVERY department at the moment...

Mate, go to bed. Sleep it off, watch it again and then continue if you still feel like it.

Thanks for that, I was going to ask if anyone else had seen that dirty fluffybunny Phillips stamp on Cooper.