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I didn't count the ROAR acknowledgement, Huge, as the young Sydney Uni Sport staff might have only been brown nosing the President. By contrast, Iain Payten's elegantly crafted tribute was entirely unsolicited, and all the more appreciated because of that. .

For at least a couple of years, RF, I have been an admirer of your creativity with logos and brands. You are quite gifted in those areas. .

I'm very surprised that Iain Payten would miss an important detail, RF. He and I go back a long way. He's the only journo who's ever been prepared to give me any publicity, albeit in a Twitter tweet. .

I hesitate to assist the enemy in any way but feel obliged to caution the Reds that they should exercise due diligence and make sure that the 'Tahs actually have some assets to pool before signing up. And my mail was that it wasn't a question of the Force opting out. Their participation was...

Before ridiculing the name, RF, you might have been well advised to take 30 seconds to visit the link provided by Badger, which makes it clear that the team name will not be the Sydney Stars. And as for your generous offer to to give Messrs Mortimer and Livingstone "a lecture", I wouldn't...

The main worry with buying the Olympic Stadium package, Badger, is that they may insist on you turning up at the godforsaken, bring-your-binoculars joint. .

The nightmare scenario in terms of it getting worse, Shiggins, would be if Foles brought his twin brother across from the East. .

I'm not overly familiar with players' origins, Dave, but from my knowledge of Uni's run-on side: Paddy Ryan comes from Tamworth, Jeremy Tilse and David Hickey from Newcastle, Tim Davidson from Young, and Tom Carter originally from Young. As to who they would play for in the NRC: Davidson has...

As I remember it, the family lived on the Central Coast. Matt joined the Sydney Uni Colts program from Joey's, but when he moved into Grade his path as a centre was blocked by Tom Carter and Luke Inman, so he switched to Randwick. He was probably sensible not to wait for Carter to move on. .

I concede, RF, on the grounds of total incomprehension of the system of logic you subscribe to. .

So on your model Uni is to drop from having seven development grades to one semi-professional team, RF. The development of professional rugby players is most effectively done by providing the appropriate conditions for young players to earn their craft. A good example was Luke Burgess starting...

Yes, that will work, RF. Take the club that produces more professional rugby players than any other club in the world out of the competition and replace it with a Subbies club. That will materially assist the ARU's objective of strengthening Australian rugby. .

Your comment highlights the fact that everyone, including the ARU, is sailing in uncharted waters with the NRC, Stands. Despite close scrutiny by John Boultbee and the evaluation team of each tendering group's submission there will be considerable uncertainty as to the ongoing sustainability of...

I've either missed quite a few announcements or else you are privy to internal information from a very wide variety of sources, RF. You say that "most of the consortiums" have "plenty of money" already sorted out, and that "all the larger bidding franchises" have "attracted new investors and...

For too long, IS, Australian athletes had to choose between sport and education. American professional footballers, basketballers and more recently baseballers come through the NCAA system, i.e., they have university or college degrees. A quite high proportion of young Australians now attend...

I doubt that we need a poll for everyone's "least favourite other team". .

It's starting to look as if the NRC structure is borrowing from the model which Greg Harris and RUPA put forward last year. This involved teams from universities which were then to be linked to existing clubs. The limitation of this model was the very great difference in rugby standard between...

If what you are hearing is correct, Stands, the link between Randwick and UNSW seems to be further strengthening. The key driver for this would probably be Simon Poidevin whose first Sydney Club was UNSW. Any idea why Easts have dropped off? From what we are hearing from Queensland their...

I'm not sure that LG would be too pleased about your implicit linking him with Sydney Uni, TT. With regard to it being a "nice trip to Brisbane" for Uni, you can take it as read that the team irrespective of who is not available will be well-coached and well-conditioned and will treat the...