Recent content by LevitatingSocks

Uni like every other unoriginal lower grades transplant in brisbane.

My gut feeling is the proximity to the colleges and social component of being at the university keeps a lot of blokes playing who otherwise wouldn't. More a case of postponing the inevitable loss of players from after high school to after Colts.

What is Wests doing - they get the pick of the Melbourne Rebels then they try to squeeze 100 young men into 2 poorly kept fields and then don’t even give them mates rates at Zambrero. I would really like to see the attrition rate of the blokes who start playing at Wests. I have no sympathy for...

not quite, the poms i know despise him to the same degree as us despite Eddie delivering some good results for them

It's interesting how much more positive the appraisal of Jones is from the Japanese blokes I know in Australia compared to nearly anyone else.

Hamish McClellan wishes he could kill Australian grassroots rugby with anything near the efficacy of poor urban planning and zoning regulations

the question needs to be put to the locals as "would you rather have businesses you'd patronise at GPS or a big mob of the midday pokie creatures hammering away at the video screens?"

Easts in Sydney was impressive to me for that reason. Fully licensed bar and restaurant that attracts a regular non-rugby crowd and families booking out the outdoor space for birthday parties. Granted they probably have more money available than most to get that going.

The japanese players I see around club rugby fit that exact mold. Undersized front rowers or halves that are ridiculously fit and good for the full 80.

losing both flyhalfs and the comp leading try scorer probably hits harder than the usual horse trading though

If you think a subset of players aren't getting paid directly by clubs or indirectly through employment opportunities/discounted housing, I have a bankrupt casino shaped like a toilet to sell you.

Time is a flat circle

Jock occasionally gets a run at 10 when he plays club for UQ as well.

Hip drop tackles to me seem like the result of the tackler giving up on using leg drive to carry momentum into the ball carrier and instead pulling their lower body up and in the direction of their arm wrap. There's a subjective argument you could drop the height of where your arms wrap to the...

I imagine MLR and making cameo appearances at events like HK10s this past weekend is the future for him. Would put him in the same space as a lot of rugby and non-rugby content makers.