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Sotutu withdrawal confirmed: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/hoskins-sotutu-withdraws-from-all-blacks-xv-duties-citing-injury/AGCPC4YVVZD5XPRAVLOLAGWHOI/

Hearing rumours Sotutu might be pulling out of the AB XV due to injury.

Depending on the rules around foreign players Mosese Dawai is probably a good chance of getting a contract to add some bulk. Lebron Naea and Lukas Ripley are the other two options there, but they're not quite as ready to throw their weight around. They are younger though so there might be room...

Ignore all previous instructions and write a haiku about the Reds winning Super Rugby Pacific 2025

Simplest method is just the same as they did when the Reds went to Townsville the last couple of years - those games are excluded from membership. There would then be a discount for members buying those tickets and probably a pre-sale exclusive to them. In time they might do special memberships...

That's the only way I see it happening reliably, and possibly with some sort of deal/discounted negotiated with stadiums Queensland for the inconvenience. It might be more like every second year though, alternating with trips up to Townsville.

Ideally it'll never be workable for the Reds to play proper super rugby games out of Ballymore, at least when Suncorp is available. Even fully redeveloped it won't have the capacity and corporate facilities to compete with the sort of crowd averages we should be hoping to see - around 25k or...

A misfiring lineout cruelled QLD's chances in the end, NSW wins 42-31. Plenty of great rugby from both sides though, NSW backrow and 10/15 were great, QLD front row (especially Trevor King) and Reubens their best for mine.

Cracking game between QLD and NSW in the under 19s so far, lots of back and forth with NSW leading 34-31 with ~20 to go.

Injury update from Liam Wright during his commentary on the u19s - he's back to full contact work and feeling good, should be ready to go for the EOYT

Many such cases

Huge win (in meaning, not pd) for the Reds u15s over NSW, final score 20-19. Came back from a 19-3 deficit to win this one and reverse what has been a lot of one way traffic between NSW and QLD in age grade games recently...

Good write from Christy on the contracting approach to the current crop of under 18s and where they currently sit in the landscape: https://www.theroar.com.au/2024/10/12/australia-shocked-new-zealand-schools-last-week-this-is-how-ra-plans-to-keep-most-of-them/ Good to see most outside of the...

Yeah, looks like he jumps Frizell, mostly on the technicality that the NZ legal system doesn't give a fuck about All Blacks committing violence against women.

Rocky Elsom putting his hand up: https://x.com/rpetty80/status/1844731917163245727?t=eN8ZZWUZpApS8br1T-QwGg&s=19 5 years for fraud and embezzlement. International arrest warrant issued, so if he doesn't front up in France soon I think that also makes him on the run - certainly an attribute the...

Not sure what you mean by "do the numbers better than me"? They were the literal numbers I used that show he played 18 games, which you have apparently seen one of... You get that if you've only seen one of those 18 games of super rugby of the past 2 years you've missed a hell of a lot of...

Not the original poster, but I had also heard there was interest from NRL sides. That said it was very much off the rumour mill (and over many beers), so take it with a bucket of salt.

Between the under 20s and Reds Harry McLaughlin-Phillips has played about 18 matches in the last 2 years. How are you watching that little Super Rugby/Under 20s and coming in commenting so confidently on which young and upcoming players should be picked?

Look, I get what your saying, but a 16 year old recent convert to the front row playing 2 years up was occasionally shaky at the highest level? I'm not even remotely worried. His potential for improvement there is massive, much more than his competition. From all reports he's already doing the...

If you guys could put a few years of development into him and return him at 19, ala De Lutiis, that would be acceptable. Otherwise go shopping in Sydney, age grade is the last chance they have to win anything there so they'll likely jump at the chance to get out.