@Kirwan

"TJ is a bit of an understated hero for us," said MacDonald. "He gets through a lot of work, a lot of tackles and every game he runs the most metres out of everybody. He's a bit of a glue man as well and playing good rugby."

@Kirwan Cool. Gonna watch that tonight. My most anticipated TV show of the week now.

Got to say that Tele’a looks very raw. Good athletic potential, but a lot to learn.

Start Duffie next week?

Parsons is our Luke Whitelock. Good accuracy, good workrate, good leadership, low impact.

@Bones Yeah, I think our attack looks a lot better with Plummer taking it flat. He's playing outside of poor halfbacks too.

Black may be the better (and more experienced) player to close out games.

@Bones That's what I'm hoping. Practicing off the ball lines and breakdown support.

@Bones You've mentioned that before, and observed that he sometimes get used for pick-and-goes to setup other props as the subsequent wider ball carriers. Both true and baffling!

Nice return to form for Gibson. Akira getting stuck in, but could be used better on attack. Big game from Pat T.

@Bones Always been a classy player, definitely a team asset as this level.

@Kirwan Yeah, he's a guy who turn up special plays, even if he did kick the last one dead.