Waratahs thrash Fiji Warriors in front of a crowd of 7438

[Happy]

rugby exists outside wa you know!

the same way we tell you rugby exists outside NSW

[waratahjesus]

i know rugby exists outside NSW, its were alot of our players go after we develop them!

[waratahjesus]

We shall see, all four Aus teams will be interesting this year. Looking forward to the season proper.

Yeah, im looking forward to watching every aus team this year, i cant see an aus team winning the comp during this one on paper! but each team has a good group of youngsters and seems to be moving forward which is the first time you can say that about every aus team in the super comp for a fair few years!

im actually looking forward to watching qld the most, if barnes can stay fit and quade keeps his head, with lucas showing enough potential to be a wallaby, they could upset quite a few teams this year. also i hope horwill comes back and keeps showing promise.

whatever way you look at it, the youngsters coming through in all four teams is only good news for the wallabies!

[Happy]

see if you put your mind to it you can say something worth reading!!

[waratahjesus]

thanks happy!
im always worth reading, just mostly only to myself!

[jargan83]

are you self-gratifying yourself again

[waratahjesus]

someone has to!
what are you looking forward to this year apart from your own team jargs?

[jargan83]

Number One: The Ashes in England

But I agree it is good for all 4 sides to have a good group of young players come through becasue at the end of the day the Wallabies will benefit.

If our Super 14 sides are strong, the Wallabies will be strong

[waratahjesus]

your looking forward to the ashes in england?
at the moment, im not sure im looking forward to the current aus cricket side playing ever again!

[jargan83]

your looking forward to the ashes in england?

hell yes

Alot of young talent going around these days, Australia will only be temporarily knocked of the Number 1 perch. Similar to Australian Rugby, there is enough talent to get excited about in Domestic Cricket

But I do look forward to the Ashes, England SHOULD win at home and with an Aussie side re-building to dominate for another 16 years. But English sport dishes up nothing but mediocrity and dissappointment so often that I wouldnt bank on it

My prediction at this stage would be England 2-1 only becasue they have the home ground advantage

[waratahjesus]

sounds about right, some of the young talent is good, just seems that there not going as all out with cleaning out the senoir side as they should, taking a big hit for a year and bouncing back would shorely be better than becoming defensive for a few years like the aussie side has seemed to be all summer!

[jargan83]

sounds about right, some of the young talent is good, just seems that there not going as all out with cleaning out the senoir side as they should, taking a big hit for a year and bouncing back would shorely be better than becoming defensive for a few years like the aussie side has seemed to be all summer!

I wouldn't say they've been defensive, just at times lacked that strike bowler to inflict that knock out blow. That tends to happen when you lose 1100 worths of Test Cricket experience.

Batting wise, they came against a saffer bowling attck that is one of the best going around these days, but alot of the Aussie wickets to fall were batsmen getting out to shit shots and surrendering their wickets

I think they were trying to stagger retirements, Hayden should have gone last year with Gilchrist though. Brett Lee will find it hard to force his way back. Stuart Clarke is vital to Australia in England, he will eat them alive if fit

Phillip Hughes will be Matthew Haydens replacement thats a given

[waratahjesus]

i thought ricky got a bit defensive at times, field wise, we seemed to not back our bowlers (with reason i spose) its hard bowling to a conservative field, i think it affected there mindsets abit, they stopped looking to strike and just tried to restrict

[innocent quokka]

It's all Weet-Bix's fault.

Brett Lee & co are so damn marketable (see weet-bix packets) that the thought of dropping them for blokes who are firing means potentially losing that sense of recognition and identity.

[Swee_82]

It's all Weet-Bix's fault.

Brett Lee & co are so damn marketable (see weet-bix packets) that the thought of dropping them for blokes who are firing means potentially losing that sense of recognition and identity.

I'd heard a similar conspiracy theory re: why Andrew Symonds gets so many chances. Given that he's in just about every sponsors ad this summer, I hazard a guess it may well be the case, unfortunately.