I could say with a fair degree of certainty that the coach wouldn't drop one of our most consistent performers unless he was injured.

I was interested because the number 8 keeps getting thrown around in the trolling, chimp can only name 6 of the squad who played that would possibly have missed out, 2 of which were challenged. So 4 players were missing? It's halved, just like that.

I think the press hinted that McKinnon was struggling to get back after a groin injury. I reckon thats the 8th man, however as we all know he played so thats 7 first team players out in total with that last three minutes being played with 12 men when Horne left the field of play with a groin strain.

Moa, O'Meley and O'Carroll would definitely have played. Losing 3 of your first 4 props is significant for any team. I wouldn't make much of the other absentees though. Martin, for example, wouldn't have shifted Turner, who is there on merit.

I think it's 8 players unavailable for selection. Of those I reckon 3 or 4 would have played. Mind you, they are all forwards and three of them are props so the effect was probably amplified a bit. I never really had a concern about the backs who are (or were) pretty much at full strength.

5 would definitely have been in the 17

moa
o'meley
o'carroll
westerman
heremaia

No doubt these would all have been in the 17 if fully fit. Biggest issue is they are all forwards

Martin would probably have played in front of turner if he'd been fit

Most of the have used the "foe" function and don't see my posts.

Never saw the point in that, most buggers quote posts anyway, and the only idiots I'd consider putting on a foe list tend to provide me with a considerable ammount of stuff that makes me chuckle for the weekend anyway.

They don't like to see a bad word said about the "secret" forum.

Chris Green would have played also and he had a rib injury, Burnett was also injured and although not getting a game atm, may have been involved due to all of these being forwards pretty much.

That's Better

I havent stopped dancing yet.

I've had to otherwise I'd have fallen over I did predict a win however

The other lot are a bit touchy today