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^^^^^^ DL was looking in great shape when I saw him at training - I hardly recognised him Maclean Jones? Has he defected from the Reds? Anybody going to the game? I'll be at the Sevens. Please give a report here if you do. .

See Hawko's reply. He had the lads grinning at the confab at the end of the match .

Yeah - but is in good nick. Is nominally Head Coach of the NSW Gen Blues U20s but by his own admission is learning from the assistant coaches. Gets to run around a lot. .

Six Nations There is a preview blog of Six Nations here: https://goo.gl/9CjJL1 Give it a click. .

There was an interesting refereed hit-out by the NSW Gen Blue U20s against Randwick, Tuesday. I think they scored 3 tries to 1 or something like that - I missed the start. The Randwick side was a mixture of fellows from the club that Owen Finegan and others were looking at for different...

If the Aus Under 20s want the Sevens players the same system will apply as it does for the Super Rugby players who are still U20s, that they want. The organisation they are contracted will have to release them for the training camp at Bond University and they will play a couple of Oceania Cup...

Oops- I wrote a post in the general thread; so I will quote myself: .

^^^^^^^^ Yeah well done Dylan - when Lindommer finds out about the Wagga connection he'll be all over it. Seriously, it's great effort from Dylan who was at school in 2016. He didn't make the main Aussie Schools' team last year as a backrower, perhaps because he's not a bruising tackler or...

The gut is not responding. As I have indicated before, we had our best U20 tight five last year in ages as measured in effect and not on paper - but our backs were not impressive. If we can get our T5 something close to the 2016 version, and all of Hutchison, Perese and Kennewell travelling...

^^^^^^^^^^ Yeah Sunia F can be a bit of a Kieran Read type, and also has good ball skills, but my word he was hard to stop near the line with the ball and could also make a dominant tackle. As an elite lineout jumper also (at least in his U18 year against contemporaries in 2016) - he could be...

Let's see how Sunia F goes - you could be right but he was bloody hard to stop in the school nationals. He will probably be picked as a lock for U20s but at 193cms now he may be too short to be a specialist senior lock - though you never know since he turned 18 just last September. But at 111...

^^^^^^ He looks in good shape and Rapp said: "Tommy Piroddi from Randwick has come back at a different physical level so it’ll be interesting to see him play.” You can't compare him to the likes of Lukhan and Rodda from the Aus U20s last year the way they compete in collisions. But I'd like...

McCauley is not a physical lock - more an athletic type. He's strong through the hips but his upper body is not powerful. It ain't his fault - he was just built that way. His future is as LH second-rower pairing with a strong TH lock in the scrum. His type-for type rival for Aus U20...

That was a bloody good photo - wonder who took it? :) Yeah that was definitely second rower ST. .

I will next time I see him. .

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yeah it's hard to assess things at one glance - or two glances in my case - but when the trials are on you know all the best players will be on show and you can get a better picture. But you know that there won't be too many Roddas or Lukhan T types in the Gen Blue...

There is a blog on the NSW Gen Blues Under 20s here: https://goo.gl/e8K9y5 Give it a click. .

It looks like Tim Rapp has given an interview to the excellent Rugby News - that's where it's from - at the same time he sent me the email which I was hanging out for for 10 days. I didn't include HH and Simon Kennewell in the list because they have contracts with the ARU for Sevens. They...

There is a blog on Waratahs training after the Wallabies returned to the squad: https://goo.gl/toiD9F Give it a click. .

Here is a list of names I was given for the NSW Elite Player Development Group (EPG)from which the NSW U20s will be chosen. The top group (EPG 1) are in their Under 20 year and the second group (EPG 2) are in their Under 19 year. I think this was the list at the beginning of training in...