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It sounds like there's pretty significant worry about that cut for Ikitau - he's been travelling in a knee brace just to minimize movement and give it a chance to heal. Makes sense to take the extra week so he's right for Bledisloe 1. If we didn't rest him we'd probably need Paisami on the bench...

It's about bloody time.

Not at all surprising but World Rugby are set to massively increase their investment in USA rugby: https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/09/08/world-rugby-to-invest-250-million-or-more-in-us-ahead-of-upcoming-world-cups/ A lot of talk will be around opportunities to play tier 1...

That would be terrible for the field with the important match copping the worst conditions and I'm not entirely sure what the point of it would be with the test match already drawing a sell out crowd.

Clearly Harry Wilson should be the 10, best kicking game in Australian Rugby.

This is a truly terrible way to build any sort of cohesion and consistency a year out from the world cup. Thankfully it's the coaches who have to get a measure of their respective abilities, not us, and they have more ways to do this then throwing them all to wolves on successive weekends.

Even if it all goes horribly wrong for the rest of the Rugby Championship, I don't think they'll turn until the EOYT at least. There will be grumblings (there already are), but losses to the big Southern Hemisphere rivals on the pretense of rebuilding are somewhat acceptable, especially with two...

Not to mention the constant changes in what the world series looks like. In a different world 7s might have been the perfect path to getting some sort of FA cup/National club competition off the ground, but when World Rugby can't work out how to make the international game work it's that much...

The other big issue helping league hold onto him might be origin - he's almost certain for selection next year at this point, but that might evaporate if he has signed back to union. That's a pretty big career opportunity that not many guys would want to miss out on, at least not once it's so...

Looking at it, it might be a specific fight with Sud-Ouest - they stopped taking questions from them in press conferences towards the end of last season, and now they keep issuing these statements shaming them for not calling to confirm details in their articles before printing them (might be a...

Apparently this has become a bit of a habit with Bayonne, putting out press releases for anything they think is wrong in an article attempting to shame the journalists for writing it. Not sure it's helping their image too much though, it feels like the sort of thing a club serious financial...

These feels like a bit of a first, Bayonne have issued a statement to assure their fans that Reece Hodge is not on that good a contract: https://www.abrugby.fr/news/articles/08-09-2025_communique-officiel

Not sure, but the Opta stats are available (if not necessarily advertised) on the Super Rugby site. Here's this games: https://super.rugby/therugbychampionship/match-centre/match-packs/round-3-post-match-australia-v-argentina-townsville/ Not sure if these are any different from Rugby Pass...

They don't credit penalties won at the ruck as turnovers in a lot situations, even though they are very much earned by that ruck work. There was also Tupou's no arms tackle getting the play called back and overruling the early one.

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