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TIME TO DECIDE IF THE FORCE IS WANTED
The Brumbies had every reason to resent losing Giteau to the Force in the first place. Bad enough that they had to farewell the man around whom all their makeover plans hinged, but they lost him to a franchise that flouted the rules by helping to arrange a dodgy third-party deal with a backer who ultimately went broke and couldn't pay up.
The Reds were even more drastically affected. Not only were established stars such as Nathan Sharpe, Drew Mitchell, Tai
McIsaac and Junior Pelesasa plundered, but the heart of their next generation of players was also ripped out of their academy.
If the Force didn't exist, David Pocock, Richard Brown, James O'Connor and Tom Hockings all would have gone on to play for the Reds.
"Add those players to what we've now got and that's a very formidable team," Reds' coach Phil Mooney observed on the weekend.
"They knocked off our entire succession plan. Maybe they did us a favour because they forced Queensland to reassess a lot of things but in the short term they hit us for six."
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