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I doubt that any Sydney University player would regard a player like Laurie Weeks as a ring-in, FR. Dropping back for more experienced players has been an element of the club culture for quite a few years now. My guess is that each of Laurie, Nick Phipps, Bernard Foley, Dave Dennis, Ben...

Laurie Weeks as a Sydney Uni ring in? This looks suspiciously like a Sydney Uni jersey. As near as I can remember he would have joined Sydney Uni in 2005 after representing Australian Schools the previous year while at Joeys. Since then he has been a dedicated Uni man, only ever playing for...

Could I just correct an apparent misunderstanding. My comment above was not directed at lily's comment, also above. .

It's probably just a personal peculiarity but I think that sneering at young blokes who are still developing as players is poor form. I know each of the players mentioned quite well - one of them still uses me as a mentor - and frustration obviously was a definite issue in them choosing to go...

I have previously acknowledged on these pages that Sydney Uni has a lot to answer for, including global warming and the current obsession with waxing, but you've identified yet another area where they are contributing to the downfall of civilisation as we know it, Stag. Thinking back to "the...

Some time ago, Dave, I put forward a proposal for a Third Tier competition: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/community/threads/learning-from-the-enemy-%E2%80%93-an-affordable-third-tier-competition.11359/

Try to keep up, Dave. It's 2013 already. .

He's on a roll: "The Wallabies can take out of this game that maybe they've broken the line a couple of times." That's something they can build on - maybe. .

He's like Australia Post - he always delivers: "They are a couple of points down. Fifteen points." Matthew Burke philosophising about the Wallabies position vis-a-vis the scoreboard. I'm guessing no one ever asked to copy his homework at Joey's. .

If your mail is right, Dt, and I certainly hope so, I'd be much more inclined to put it down to inertia than being the product of actual consideration. .

I agree, Sully. A couple of points. There are real difficulties for young athletes being the subject of intense public scrutiny all the time. I don't think I would have looked too flash if what my mates and I got up to at that age had been written up in newspapers. And I think the same would...

Our man Scoop is really putting in long hours piecing together his weekly column - long hours with scissors and paste, that is. This week he pads out his contribution with almost 200 words lifted from Richard Loe's newspaper column, then 120+ words from a program interview with Quade Cooper. He...

A novel and counter-intuitive usage of the word "honed", Gnostic, employed in respect of what Foley did with to an international standard pack. .

I'm seriously impressed, ea. It seems that the new regime has prepared for absolutely any eventuality. .

Yesterday supersport.com had a story titled, "Aus fans asked to be realistic", which extensively quoted the Pulveriser. Positively Churchillean he was. This is the sort of leadership we rugby tragics have been craving: "We want to win it, we basically would like to win the Rugby Championships...

I thought it was a silly and uncharacteristic gesture by Lachie Mitchell which provoked a reflex reaction. Unfortunately it took the gloss off a great winger's run and equally great covering tackle. All in the heat of battle. .

Rather than have the players trying to cope with extended trips throughout the ever growing nightmare of Sydney traffic, I still believe that the best means of assisting Penrith would be for the ARU to make a commitment of at least three years to employing an experienced professional coach to...

You don't happen to have a spare tape of the game by any chance, tc? .

If I was a SS coach I would seriously consider coaching my pack not to keep giving penalties away for early engagement. Adjusting to the referee's interpretation would seem to be the smart way to deal with the complexities of our game. When I see a team that I'm supporting being continually...

Don't quote me but isn't there a soccer team out that way that's been going all right, Dave? .