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Excellent to see we still kept Peni even with the new kiwi recruits coming in. Should be an excellent way to help George and Zanes development to be rubbing shoulders with them. The hookers battle will be interesting. Matt will no doubt have first dibs at the starting spot, but who's the...

Joe Schmidt. He was integral for Ireland building what they are now. Understands what RA are trying to do with centralisation. He helped stabilise the all blacks who came from huge outsiders to be a bees dick from winning the RWC. If Joe doesn't want to leave NZ, I would make him the DoR and...

What makes anyone confident that in the 10-12 months since Dan and Laurie were apart of the coaching staff that they're going to bring anything different to what we saw last year? The whole Rennie and Dan era was plagued with among other things (like injuries), being the most penalised team and...

Yeah this rings a bell for what I remember as well. At the same time, it's such low effort "identification" ie someone outside of the AIS runs the tests and submits the results.

But is the AIS actively finding these athletes I.e. Going out to whatever grass roots games are going on and plucking kids from there? Or, are they simply relying on kids to be partaking in a sport that competes at a State and National level and redirecting them from doing Basketball to Rowing...

Surely it'll be the quickest report done. You just update the one done in 2019, replace a few dates, same opposition with reverse scores and just another coach from Ranwick that failed horribly at the RWC.

You do know the Champions League dwarfs every single rugby competition combined in terms of eye balls, spectators and TV revenue yeah?

I can get behind this. Full Logan Roy vendictiveness as well. Hooper was the intended recipient of the infamous pig gif wasn't he? But Link liked Quade so hard to say why he would tell Eddie not to take Quade n

The bloke doesn't pay his legal fees, what makes you think he'll pony up any money. If Palmer was to ever get involved with RA, I'm not sure what would last longer, his Gastric Sleeve or Rugby in Australia.

I'm confused here. We've had arguments that we don't play enough rugbh, but when we play more rugby it's deemed to be too unreasonable? 5 tests in 5 weeks is a perfect way to mirror the demands of the WC. There are no freebie weeks anymore and the most recent WC showed you have to back up...

Seeing as were trying to emulate the Irish model and playing the B&I lions so soon, I would be doing everything in my power to get Joe Schmidt. Ask Twiggy if RA can borrow his plane to fly Joe to and From NZ every week. McKellar is not the answer yet and Bernie definitely is not it. This...

Bit hard to say no to a Rugby World Cup winning coach though? Even after a WC cycle, I'm not too sure who's left to pick from? So it could be Aussie Robbie, or Aussie Ian who picks up the the schmoozle Eddie has left us in?

Sure you're right on that. Although, the mess Jones has made won us less games. So we're now left with an team who loses more games, confidence is shot and no identity.

Saddest thing about this whole situation is, Rennie appeared to be creating a great culture within the team and Hurricane Eddie has just left a massive trail of destruction even if hes gone in the coming months. Putting results aside, we've gone backwards in some many non-quantifiable metrics...

Any thoughts on how this impacts the Australia A program? They've had some good tours over the last couple of years so it'd be sad to see that all go to waste if the pacific nations are tied up with this competition.

Surely Tupou was in the positive penalty count not the negative? As in, surely he earnt more penalties than he conceded?

They could but we've seen the NH countries are all talk when it comes to growing the game. If relegation is true I expect well see Italy and Georgia replace each other.

To give some context Sully, at the Fifa world cup here in Aus, Fifa had complete control over the pitch. No other sport could be played on the surface almost a month out and only specific people could go onto the pitch on non match days ie those doing pressers at Suncorp couldn't go on...

Sevens is an Olympic sport where Australia have won medals with the girls along with world titles at both levela though?

Jamie Pandaram and Danny Wilder are up there. Just click bait merchants.