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Perhaps just Sydney Cove along similar lines to the last manifestation's Sydney Fleet. .

Actually, LG, so do I. You may have detected that my post was to some extent tongue-in-cheek, but the more I have reflected on it the more I think it would really work for each of the reasons highlighted. You have the combination of two clubs whose roots trace back to colonial times, so both...

Well those "younger players" are certainly not likely to end up at Uni. .

There seems to be near-universal - and well-merited - rejection of the name Sydney Stars, and it has previously been suggested that it was just a working title which would be replaced by something more suitable. I would like to propose a name which is evocative of the Sydney University and...

Why not try out the Official Twitter Page by Tweeting the time of the announcement? Most organisations would have already thought of that. .

A FoxSports Tweet: From midday EDT @FOXSportsNews will unveil the teams & format around forthcoming National Rugby Championships @FOXRUGBY @GMiddletonFOX 3 pm? Midday? Please see the red section of my signature below. .

At 11 am The Roar tweeted: "Australian Rugby Union to make major announcement on the @NRC_Rugby today. The Roar will have live coverage of it all!" I went on the @NRC_Rugby official page and discovered that they had 0 Tweets, were following 11, and had 25 followers. They now have 26. The amount...

We traditionalists are constantly being told to accept the fact that the game has moved on and is now a business; and because of being in the entertainment business, we need to fiddle with the Laws to ensure that we play "smart creative running rugby", to quote the current Czar. What we should...

No need to apologise, Cyclo. Tommy certainly indicated that it was a full retirement despite bullying from people like me to keep going. I think that what he is doing may be emulated by others in future. The professional footballer's life is greatly overrated. Being constantly told what to do...

Cyclo, he hasn't "come back to help out a bit". Having retired from the professional game, he'll be more committed to club rugby than ever. He seems to be massively enjoying the idea of not being told how he has to play. .

A very unsatisfactory ending to the game.

How many times are the Lions allowed to stand up in the scrum?

Thanks for your input FOTB. I hope you continue to contribute. I know and have known enough professional players to realise that once a season has been underway for a few games it is more the norm than the exception for players to take the field or stay on the field with incapacitating injury...

An extraordinary victory for guts and commitment. .

No problem with his technique in the next scrum. .

I haven't got time to look at the current Laws yet, but the Force hooker with his whole leg on the ground and a full set of sprigs on display before the ball was fed used to be a hanging offence. .

Is it not possible to have ABC Radio call the Super games like they do with cricket Tests? If I was in a bar and Greg Martin started to rabbit on I'd walk out leaving my drink on the counter. Life is too short to spend it in the company of half-wits. "Is that really worth three points?" after...

Yes, most unusual, Pfitzy. In fact if you were burdened by a concern for facts, you would realise it is "unusual" for me to desert any player given that to the very best of my knowledge I have never criticised any player, Uni or otherwise, let alone deserted them since I joined this forum almost...

Pfitzy, you'll have to indulge an old man with fading memory. Please direct me to just one instance where I could be said to have "pushed" Paddy as a scrummager. Don't trouble yourself to list them all; just one example will do. For the life of me I cannot recall anything I have ever written...

Thank you, TOCC. Much appreciated. You've also unearthed an absolute gem for me; as rich a collection of journalistic howlers as I've ever come across in the one article in a capital city paper - even one of Loopy Old Rupey's: "it's creation" "Joining the Randwick-Easts-Country team from...