The Silver Fern

Another L for Mansbridge.

I’ll let you into a secret, Georgia couldn’t give a shit about playing C teams. They lift themselves when facing Test sides.

That back-up halfback spot is massively up for grabs through Super Rugby next season

Sevu Reece’s last All Blacks match. Thanks for the fun through the years.

3 years? He ain’t coming back. You think Eddie Jones ain’t chucking a 6’4” Japan-qualified player into his second row alongside Werner Dearns?

Hannah was one of the few positives from last season. Has all the right attributes to succeed at lock.

No dramas with the top 23 Rob can put out but nothing in the broader squad to get fizzed over.

He was calling off tube and therefore underwhelmed in what ought to be one of the most iconic moments in Wallabies history

No mention of the fabled b word

Logan Savory

Stags speedster tipped to be named in Highlanders squad

Even after missing the first half of the NPC season through injury, Michael Manson had enough time to showcase how threatening he is in attack. So much so he appears to be Highlanders bound.

I’d take Finlay Christie over this

SOS for Roigard

I know the consensus is we need Mo’unga back ASAP but Ardie, Beauden and Cane show the folly of parachuting players into Test rugby from Japan

I’m bloody scared about the next fortnight

With a name like that he should be playing golf

That seems like a massive L for NZR.

We won't know the full story until Hoskins makes a sulky post on Insta

Heads-up for all the Steamers fans on here, and provincial rugby fans more generally, there is a doco on Sky Sport this week looking back at the 2004 Bay Of Plenty side that won the Shield off Auckland... and the three weeks of celebrations that followed.

Some awesome anecdotes from Vern, Schmidt and Jacko amongst many others.

First airs Thursday night 9pm and there's a replay playing between the two NPC semis on Saturday.

Don’t mind it

Beaudie out, Jordan to FB, Sevu on the wing and Plummer on the bench

Finau had a mare. What’s the opposite of impact?