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ESPN is suggesting that Koroibete and Bell will not play this week and that Lolesio is expected to be at 10. I think that will be right on Koro and Bell but wrong on Lolesio based on other information.

Interested to see whether we see one or more debuts. Seems pretty certain that based on media and comments from Schmidt that Toole and Jorgensen are both not far away from playing for the Wallabies.

I feel like Donaldson is another placeholder. Like the couple of coaches before him, Schmidt has seen Lolesio look the best at Super Rugby level and then seemingly not have a higher ceiling than that at test level. It will be interesting to see whether he goes back there or whether Lolesio...

I agree but largely the perception held about the non-rugby background alternative is that they are both more skilled and potentially don't need to be paid as much. I think it's classic grass is greener sort of thinking and that alternative either doesn't exist or isn't as skilled. I also think...

Wouldn't this describe just about every Super Rugby team, every club rugby team and pretty much any sporting team around? Sport is full of people who were once participants moving on to coaching, management and administration whether professionally or on a volunteer basis.

Code Rugby / Jamie Pandaram is reporting that Tizzano is set to debut.

I think we are going to see the red card changes adopted globally. It's just a matter of time. I think World Rugby has signaled their intent by bringing it in where they have control. I think the focus being on the player more so than the team is key here. They're not diminishing the...

"In the event foul play is determined to be deliberate and with a high level of danger". I think that is fine. A referee essentially can't determine that an action is deliberate unless it is a non-rugby action like striking etc.

I think the point of the law clarification is that a player in the maul can't take the half back as they try and clear the ball because they are offside. If they remain bound to the maul they would be changing their bind or if they leave the maul they are offside and need to retreat to an onside...

World Rugby only have the law variations in the competitions they control (this year that's under 20 World Championships and Pacific Nations Cup). SANZAAR can make their own decisions to use or not use approved law variations. The law variations are just a continuation of what we've had in...

SANZAAR is keeping the law variations for the Rugby Championship. The Rugby Championship 2024 Law Variations SANZAAR has today confirmed the roll out of several Law Variations that will be implemented in The Rugby Championship 2024 (TRC). The rationale behind the variations is to speed up the...

It would be quite interesting to track the comings and goings from their squad across the Rugby Championship (assuming you could get all the info) to see how they manage it.

I think this is a harsh and not overly accurate summation. There have been more quotes regarding Skelton in the last week or two so I don't think these quotes are absolutely current. From all reports they're in the midst of preseason with opening round a month away. I doubt he is on holiday...

This is absolutely my understanding of the issue. RA had to make space for a number of players from the Rebels who were already contracted and the Waratahs was the only team where they had control to create that space.

He's also 21, very fast and pretty big. I don't think Lancaster is amazing by any stretch of the imagination yet but he's certainly got all the right tools for success.

The Will Skelton selection is probably partly due to how regulation 9 works. It's far more conceivable to call him up for the Argentina tour where he can join the squad in Argentina for the two weeks then fly back to France. They then have the opportunity to bring him back out for the two All...

For the record, the points exchange has two levels of results in terms of how many points are exchanged; 1-15 points and >15.

We literally have nothing to lose in terms of ranking points against South Africa. If the points difference is 13 or greater the home team can't lose points for losing. When the away team is the underdog, any rankings difference of 7 or higher results in no points being lost for the lower...

Christian Leali'ifano? Played for the Wallabies and more recently Samoa.

This is getting bizarre. You're using Super Rugby form across 6 and a bit games playing for a terrible team over play for the Wallabies that had him voted by his peers as the second best player in the team and best player by the voters on this forum last year. Again, Kailea is in the squad...