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21 & 22 feels like a pretty low number for halfway through the 15th season.

Wonder if Nabolakasi only has domestic insurance.

The humpening round 3

that's crazy

his worst game so far 100%

Holy shit, there's some fluency when Carter isn't the sole player capable of distributing the ball beyond first receiver.

Geoffy very pissed off.

He's not alone in getting smashed, but I think we're seeing why Cabous has been left out of the squads thus far.

Kerevi has a lot of work to do based on his 2023 season and Schmidts stated preference for domestic players.

TBH Radwan is the only Falcons player that it truly genuinely matters that you retain. The rest of the squad is very journeyman/youth.

not really. The tests are huge money churners, but only maybe 4 or 5 domestic teams would crack a 20k average. 7800 at Hive in Edinburgh would bring in a lot more cash for them and the SRU than the same for the Force at HBF purely due to the stadium ownership and sponsorship situation though.

The overall penalty/use it situation I'm somewhat comfortable with, it's more there have been a number of games where individual front rowers should have been put in the bin for their own safety, and I think test season will come back to beat super rugby players on the bum if this is what to expect.

TT is the type of player who would be valued most by European side. Plays tighthead, plenty of international experience, bit of a big name to help sell some tickets/jerseys. In principle, I agree I'd probably be looking at the group of Daugunu/Leota/Ekuasi/Proctor/LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) to snipe first. But Irish...

MRRU was my shorthand for "whoever's controlling the business outside of Rugby Australia" rather than necessarily the former governance team.

I would be interested to see exactly what control the MRRU administrators have over the ability to make arrangements for a player presumably receiving a national top up as part of his contract, and hence (at least in a way) dual employed.

Kev flagged big changes. Not sure what Gibbo did wrong having watched in person behind the posts, but obviously got dragged alongside Taniela (did he pull out of a contest or walk back during a scramble or something) so fair cop. Kems clearly picked up a big knock at some point and looked very...

Big calls. I like the starting forwards. Backline will cause defensive and handling headaches (for us, not for the Canes)

At least the URC is back and hopefully we wake up to Glasgow BP win over Cardiff on saturday.

That needs to be reffed properly though, the super refs have been very very lax in rewarding scrum dominance this year so far.

This ain't cricket