Recent content by KOB1987

I can’t recall any previous RWC draws to be honest. Nor can I recall any previous Soccer, Cricket, rugba league or Netball ones. Yeah, they could have gone to the expense and all the fanfare about it but it still would have just been the 9 of us here that watched it. And of course Trumpy was...

Of more importance than our Band 1 opponent was not getting a potential banana skin Band 3 opponent such as Georgia or USA.

I don't think the 'threat' to never play for the Wallabies again is particularly relevant....

On the flip side, assuming we come 1st or 2nd in the pool we can’t meet NZ again until the final. It also means the opening game is Aus v NZ which is a bit of a coup

I'm pretty sure Rugby Challenge has 7s mode

I think he asked to be banned, I think he just thought he was wasting too much time. Shame, he would get a bit wound up at times but overall was good value.

Re the first point, there was the same query re JAS - maybe he was just trying something different, I think both JAS and McReight played every minute of the tour. Re the second one, Joe's MO has been to keep an injury reserve on the bench just in case, occassionally he will put said player on...

I wasn’t suggesting RA wouldn’t be chipping in, only that he might not make the Wallabies. Sure, if they are chipping in he will be in all the squads initially and maybe he will make the grade, be that in the centres or the back row. He is a tremendous athlete with an only slightly flawed CV...

I'm actually not suggesting he'll make the Wallabies, maybe he will but I think super rugby might be his calling at the end of his career

Nup, back row for sure. Possibly a like for like replacement for Gleeson. Maybe but I do know that pro rugby is on is pre-retirement bucket list. Given he is expanding his barber shop interests and his wife is a physio in Sydney, I reckon it’s Tahs or nothing if he’s going to make the switch...

Yeah, I guess scheduling a test against a Tier 1 team outside the Reg 9 window is all about the dollars. The main source of the angst was that the clubs didn't even have games on when we played England.

The fuck? You time your jump for when you think you have the best opportunity to compete the ball, not when WR (World Rugby) regulations determine it. Whether that timing is right or not is another matter. The official reason given to JAS when he rightly queried it was that he wasn’t as high as the French...

It’s a pity he didn’t get pinged for doing it against us, in fact they earned a couple of penalties for it from memory

Joe doesn’t generally hook players for playing shit, and in any case he wasn’t playing shit enough to be hooked. There must have been another reason. As you say it’s a curious one.

It wasn’t really, that Sua'ali'i penalty was ridiculous and at least a 14 point turnaround. It took away all our momentum. We had a shit back half of the year but we’re not a bad team. Certainly better than our results say. Over and out, see you in February.