Recent content by Wilson

he was listed as round 13 last week, but before then just 'long-term'.

The Alo-Emiles are both contracted with Stade through to 2028

Barrett is a loose head prop and still working his way into super rugby. With Bell, Lambert and Kailea all fit and available there hasn't been much reason to call him in. I guess they could look at shifting him across to tight head next year, but I think that would take even longer than Lambert...

Goddard and Langi are both good prospects, but neither will be ready for a starting gig (or any further advanced than Botha and Amone) next year. I'm not saying the tahs need a world class tight head, just that they need a reliable super rugby standard one, and of all the open positions they...

I can't see JTA (Jeffery Toomaga-Allen) moving at this point - he's 35 with a young family setup in Brisbane and well integrated into the community. I think it's an even chance he retires next year, but the Reds will try and get him to play on for another year or so to bring De Lutiis and King through. It's not...

The big issue for tahs is tight head (assuming Tupou goes). It doesn't look like either of Botha or Amone are any better than a bench option right now (Amone has good potential though), and most of the local options are pretty well locked up. Near as I can tell Feao Fotuaika is the only one in...

I don't have an issue with the process (and don't necessarily think they got this one wrong), but it's very opaque at the moment, particularly to the average fan. A big part of that is on the commentary teams not fully understanding or explaining it, but it also comes back to the competition...

It's definitely an option, though I think Paisami-Ikitau is most likely with Daugunu on the bench covering wing and 13.

Salakaia-Loto's maul work remains questionable and might prevent him from getting the start first up. I'm also pretty doubtful will see Sua'ali'i at 13 for the start of the series, wing is looking more and more likely.

For tackles generally that's true, but I don't think it's unreasonable to release a citing commissioner report for everything that was a yellow card or above. Can't hurt to have those incidents explained to the fans so it's clear how the guidelines and frameworks are intended to be applied.

Possibly, but I doubt we'll be told. I'm not sure how public they make the non-decisions, all I saw was the report that it wasn't cited.

Hopefully they (or someone else) does, but it's worth noting that no state (NSW or otherwise) can claim any sort of opposition to another stepping in to support Vic juniors and bring them through. There might be some issues with overlap if multiple step in that RA would have to manage, but I see...

Yeah, I'm talking the 19s and 16s specifically, where they have the full super comp. The extra teams get a bit of game time in the years where they're only really playing NSW v QLD, but those 16s and 19s comps could really benefit from more teams or more rugby. Will become particularly important...

Oh my bad, that'll teach me for skimming the report. I do think it's probably a bit of a throw away line to explain the cost increase (as opposed to the losses specifically), but arguably anything above 30% ($8m) could reasonably be described as 'largely driven by', assuming there was no other...

Match day is expensive, hard to tell what it costs for specific teams but the Reds spent ~$3.7m on it in 2023 for example. If that's standard you're looking at $15-17 million cost increase on player salaries and match day. Cost increase was about $26m, it seems reasonable to describe that as...