I'm bored, and on baby duty, so I'll accept the premise and name my team. I'll do my best to name people fit and that I'm sure are available, except at loosehead, where I'd make the call to Wyatt to come out for one last hurrah: 1 Crockett 2 Makalio 3 To'omaga-Allen 4 Romano 5 Franklin 6 Ioane/Papali'i 7 Papali'i/Evans 8 Evans/Ioane 9 Weber 10 Hunt 11 Lam 12 Laumape (returns next week I believe - if not Thompson moves in and Seta or Proctor to 13) 13 Thompson 14 Alaimalo 15 Havili 16 Aumua 17 Hodgman 18 Alaatoa 19 Allardice 20 Gibson (is he fit? He never is, if not then I'm actually not sure) 21 Hall 22 Black 23 Proctor/Seta I want to see Jordan play well at Super level before I get too excited, although I'm pretty sure he'll be ahead of Havili pretty quickly, and it's tempting to pick him there now. However, I thought of this team as what I'd pick from what is left over assuming we played SA or Oz next week - not with who the talents are running around and carving up Mitre 10 rugby. I think this team would lose by a bit too, but it passed the time.

You normally in such cases have promotion-relegation. Why should Georgia and Tonga, both of which run hot and cold, get to play -- whereas Romania and Canada, who've both been good in the past, don't?

Mokey said: Did I just hear that Cinders is going to be on Stephen Colbert's show later this week? Please no. Yes

antipodean said: Sneakdefreak said: Billy Slater has been found not guilty of a shoulder charge and is free to play in the Grand Final and win the Clive Churchill Medal. This was entirely predictable., The worst part was the theater making him attend a hearing. I’ve just been watching El Chapo on Netflix. The NRL are almost as good as the Mexican Government at conjuring up corrupt story lines that are believable.

Gunner said: Tim said: So his pack would be: Tim Perry Nathan Harris Ofa Tu'ungafasi Scott Barrett Patrick Tuipulotu Shannon Frizell Ardie Savea Luke Whitelock Yikes. Which super rugby team is this? The one that gets beaten by a decent NPC side...

Man the ads that are coming up in mobile view for this thread have certainly changed!

Tim said: Pffft. Emilia Clark isn't actually that hot. Far better out there than her.

His attempted tackle on Sione Teu during James Parson's first try was just a dive-in-front of Sione Teu's knees - no attempt to wrap the arms around Teu to hold or bring him down. Teu rolled on closer to the line to plant the ball for Parsons to score. Tevita Li scored his try when Taulagi made a pathetic grab high for him and Li just brushed past him.

@tim ah ok...I thought Tua had signed for 2 years, obviously not. That shows Goodhue as not being contracted and Blues have lots of spots or I'm reading it wrong?

canefan said: Chris B. said: raznomore said: Elin's twin sister That she has a twin sister reinforces my point!

@stargazer It's all guesswork, but my reaction to seeing Crotty up close was that he's quite big and seeing David up close is that he isn't.

Counties (and a bit of) Manukau Rugby Union? CAABOM RU has a nice ring to it.

Well quotes are still partially broken (missing the @ before the name). So we're are stuck with that bug for a few more days.. I've enabled the quick reply box. This doesn't interfere with the ads so google shouldn't complain Replying to, or quoting a specific post will take you to the full screen composer

Covers the mainstream talking points and obvious counters to them.

@no-quarter that's a pretty fair summation, thanks

canefan said: MN5 said: Never say never again was pretty good on its own merits. Connery did look a tiny bit creepy hitting on Kim Basinger and Barbara Carrera was a perfect mix of HAF and Batshit crazy. I liked it but then I liked Thunderball as well. Weird that he made the same movie twice. Edward Fox made pompous comical M, wasn't the villain at the health spa an ex-pro wrestler? And there was even a Rowan Atkinson cameo Yep, old mate Pat Roach who also gave Indiana Jones a hiding in two separate movies as different characters. I always liked his work. Great punch up this one, Bond shoulda done better though.