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He's human after all. Simone knocks on. Fitzpatrick subbed off. Hilterbrand on. 55 minutes gone.

Tessman meat pie from lineout rolling maul. Rays 16 Spirit 36 after the conversion is successful. 51 minutes. Rays playing like Manly in this years Shute Shield. Start with a hiss and a roar, and then peter out.

Cheese for Jack Dempsey throwing Gilbert away. 14 vs 14.

Rays finally on attack after a loose offload from Tapuae is pounced on by the rays. 5 metre scrum to the Rays. Another 5 m scrum to the Rays as a penalty option. Yellow Card to Meakes deliberate knock down, and the Rays opt for the scrum as a penalty option. Knock on by Sinclair ruins...

Prior scores his second for the afternoon off a chip and chase 2 minutes after Oranges. Spirit 28 - Rays 16.

Perth Spirit continue to dominate possession and territory. Nice turnover from Hardwick to defuse a promising Rays raid into Spirit territory, about 5 metres out from Spirit tryline. Spirit grind it back upfield and on attack in the Rays half. 1 minute to Oranges. Ross H-P knocks on, and Sir...

Love a good scrum munting and that Spirit scrum munting of the Rays is about as good as a munting gets. Meat pie for Prior after a couple of phases after the scrum penalty. Perth take the lead after 31 minutes, but the conversion attempt from Prior slips across the face of the goalposts...

Fitzpatrick back on for the Rays. Must have been a blood bin. Simone showing his class already. Perth Spirit dominating possession and territory, into a strong Northerly wind!. 27 minutes gone.

Brache over for the Spirit off a nice angled run and some rather average defence from the Rays. Prior raises the flags. 21 minutes gone and Spirit storm back into this fixture. Sydney Rays 16 Perth Spirit 14

Masirewa scores for the Spirit in the far corner (NE corner). Rays 16 Spirit 6 after Prior pushes the conversion across the face of the sticks. 15 minutes gone. Harry Bergellin on for Michael Smith. Fitzpatrick off, Hilterbrand on.

Harry Jones - Meat pie for Rays off a fairly conventional starter play from a lineout on halfway. Lucas converts and suddenly it's 16 - 0 after 10 minutes.

Fitzpatrick opens the account for the Rays. Great set up work by Jones, Simone and Dempsey. Lucas converts. Rays 8 Perth 0 after 8 minutes.

If the Fox Sports NRC Commentary team had their way, the Wallabies would need to charter one of the Qantas A380's to take all the NRC players that "deserve" to be on the EOYT.

Enough talk about Scholarships. Take it to the Scholarship thread.

Look out for some success from the Pirates. Maybe not this year but next. Excellent signings.

Some of the Tahs fans have been adding two cents worth on the various Reds Threads throughout the RG period, and not to gloat or death roll your mob but to recognize how important a successful revenue positive Reds outfit is to Australian Rugby. Some of us Mexicans are able to rise above the...

Getting anything off the Foxtel IQ box onto another media form (flash drive, DVD, hard drive etc) is very tricky if not downright impossible. Not helped by the notorious unreliability of Foxtel IQ hardware. Ours tends to last about 2 years before a fault develops with the unit, and carefully...

So much for the Ballymore Kid of 2015. Has Prince Laloifi been sacked or is he off overseas for 2017? Would have thought the Ballymore Kid contract was for more than one season. Has the EPS been announced? CBF reading the front page article. Pretty good looking squad. Hopefully the...

Want less penalties kicked? Re-introduce the shitty old leather balls, and outlaw the kicking tee. No sand either. Kicker has to kick the ball from the ground. If the ground is too hard to "build a tee" with the heel, like it is in much of SAF and AUS, then tough luck. Better learn to...

Quite right and proper that @Pfitzy got his hands on the H-L Shield after his role in kicking the whole idea for the NRC Challenge shield off, even if it was only to hand it on to a new custodian.