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who will be back for Scots in 2026? Any year 13 at Kings next year? I remember Dylan Pietsch did yr13 at Kings.

Are you implying that Risati although absent through injury made the most impact on King’s season by being absent?

With the deadline fast approaching, in years past this forum used to pick its “team of the year” based on which players made the biggest contribution to his team’s season. Any thoughts?

Las comment Spoken like a Barker old boy of note

I didn’t include Peter Jorgensen or Darren Junee as I said 35 years was my limit. sorry if the truth hurts , Cobber.

If what you say were true, why can I recall only 2 Joeys old boys playing mungo ball in the last 35 years, namely Jarrod Saffy with St G and Kennedy with I think Newcastle? Even High had more in the 90s e.g. Craig Wing, and their Captain from 1994 and Duncan MacRae, compare that to Scots...

Any news on A. Grover’s shoulder injury?

I repeat see entries 5910 & 5911. Injury time was allowed in the last Iggies game V Joeys. To say otherwise shows ignorance of the highest eye-eyed view.

Just because refs haven’t been enforcing the feed in rule”for a long time” doesn’t mean it is the best. why are lineouts “more critical?”.At least with scrums 8 players are in the same area And there is a bit more room for prancing backs. With short lineouts the backline is full of forwards...

You overlook the benefit of unpredictably in play. Just look at scrums in mungo ball. A waste of time. 5 barges then kick down the field over and over and over. Boring.oh so boring. Rugby needs unpredictability. AFL has it in spades. Rugby must find ways to increase the unpredictable and get...

You must have been a backline player with no idea of the ‘fine arts” of scrums. Current scrum refereeing deskills hookers. Maybe their title should be changed to “throwers in”. Contest of power I think not if scums can’t advance as we used to enjoy.

Not having a dig against any one referee but when was the last time a penalty was given for not putting the ball into the middle of a scrum? Has the law actually been rescinded? One of the good things about rugby was the possibility of a turnover of possession and the sudden rearrangement of...

An afterthought to make it clear that the second half at Hunters Hill last Saturday was 41 minutes long. Not 35. So there was plenty of injury time! Great heroics by Iggies captain Grover to stay on with an injured shoulder even throwing passes with one arm. Captain courageous. Hope he recovers...

I was watching that game on Saturday. Being a pedantic ex-referee I noted the second half started at 1602 and the clock on the scoreboard was 1643 at games’ end moreover that clock was stopped at 1 second for over a minute as Iggies forced their way back from their 22 to within 15 metres from...

I was intrigued by the referee’s one-eyed performance in a recent King‘s thirds game recently. The penalty count favoured the home team so much I thought he only had one arm. So alarmed was I, I asked some of the King’s reserves if he was a teacher. They said he had a son there. Nevertheless...