Shaun, Kooks and Thala focus on the Super Rugby semi finals and look at rugby news from the past week, which includes the announcement of the first All Blacks squad of the season.

We first review the Crusaders six-try rout of the Blues which showed the strength of the Crusaders and why the problems of the Blues may become the problems of the All Blacks. We also look at the Chiefs edging past the Brumbies on the back of big performances from Damian McKenzie and Samisoni Taukei’aho and we try to figure out what was Tom Wright thinking for most of the match.

We try and fail to make sense of Ian Foster’s Rugby Championship squad and we try to select our own team from it. We discuss Luke Jacobsen v Scott Barrett, Damian McKenzie v Will Jordan v Beauden Barrett and Jordie Barrett v Dallas McLeod(?)

We catch up with the news around the rugby world including Kieran Crowley being fired from Italy for Gonzalo Quesada and the announcement of Samoa and Tonga teams.

Join us as Kooks figures out which Rugby World Cup coaches are on a hot seat, Shaun asks everyone to join his Nic White cult and Thala establishes his Dallas McLeod fan club.