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These things usually boil down to something like you can have a great test front row scrummager, or you can have a great test front row ball carrier, but you can't have both over any sort of longer term, and it often resolves itself through injury (eg Tupou), or poor form.

He's a 35 year old pro-rugby player. He's probably icing something every day!

I'm going with deliberate planned tactical substitution. Slipper plays from 40min to 60min. Gives Bell a half hour breather with the break and Bell comes back on to finish the game. Old man Slips looks like he has put on weight and was completely gassed after the lineout after which Tom Wright...

I don't really get the issue with Kerevi. It's been clear for years now you can smash someone low and on occasion you can even clash heads with someone and you won't necessarily get a red card (soak tackle?). But if you go out there to smash someone, and you clash head to head, then chances are...

I only watched the first half, and I honestly couldn't believe France won when I saw the score.

I know it's not quite the same, but all I'm doing reading these names is thinking "He's no Goromoru"

Looked a bit mean against boys at the end there. The maul looked good, but really struggled to stop the English gain line. Jock's pass at the end there a real low light. I know he's trying to do something, but for a Wallaby aspirint, that was a shocker

One of rugby,'s more stupid laws, this only applies to kicks in general play

7 days ago this would have been the conservative, respectful decision

And just replying to myself here....but probably why the vote on the 20min red card got pushed back to May Deal done

Robinson = English speaking block + Oceania Rinaldo = Italy + Ireland + Scotland (don't want to vote for either of the others) Benazzi = non-english (including Arg + SA). Second round looks like Ireland probably voted for Robinson in the end......

I don't think I've heard that but you may be right? We can probably find out when the ARF publish their accounts

This is how Folau, Pocock and presumably JAS receive their payments

I suspect $10k provided by ARF will be $10k less from RA's community rugby spend

Before we all get too excited, this fund isn't to be used for rugby. A portion of the fee manager's annual fee will be used for rugby - it's a fraction, of a fraction of the total fund So right now it's $120k a year, when they reach target, it's $1m a year. Might take the edge off some of the...

Always hard to compare these things because they may put the items in different spots, but Scotland spend around 50m gbp or pretty much $100m on "International", "Professional" and "Performance" rugby RA spend half that - around $53m on "Super Rugby and High Performance" and "Player payments...

Scotland announce a $20m loss on revenue of around $145m. With just 2 pro teams someone must be on some seriously good coin to spend that much Even the six nations river of gold can't make up for a world cup year

When is Schmidt announcing the Wallaby side? Presumably at 1:30am tomorrow morning?

For what it's worth, Rugbypass is reporting that he is getting released from his contract

If they are consistent there are going to be a lot of reds cards dished out for this. It does seem that difference between no issues at all/play on, and red card and suspension is going to be tiny, and ultimately dependent on how the jackler stands (leg straight, or put on an angle). Which...