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It's possible to be upset that the Rebels are gone without taking every discussion of pragmatic player movements personally. There's no opportunity for another chance at a Melbourne team if Victorian talent isn't given some sort of professional/Wallaby opportunity.

that is a fairly scary amount of achilles injuries, assuming it's not just a statistical outlier could it be something related to the way the Tahs condition or manage training load?

The Tahs have outfoxed us all and will run out 13 men while using Sua'ali'i to play wing, loose forward, and flyhalf simultaneously. His contract is practically a bargain when you view it as paying for 3 players.

Folau has one opinion that makes him radioactive. It's not the fact that he holds that opinion because there are plenty of others in rugby that do, it's that he's vocal about it. Eddie just did the sporting equivalent of crashing the Titanic into the iceberg after telling anyone who noticed the...

Get "man on the street" type content posting ladies days, prop races, funny sideline chat, and weird operators at test matches. That stuff is funny as even if you have no idea what the difference between a loosehead and a tighthead is, but it's a nice gateway drug into the game.

I think at least in Australia, the issue is that you're going to be fighting heaps of cultural inertia within the game. Most guys are of a very middle class mindset, keep a low profile, and won't say anything outlandish to the media. There are a fair few Super Rugby players in the first 15 for...

Donaldson isn't that egregious of a pick given the competition. White would be great on a slow-paced team that runs off the 9, has a forward pack that dominates set pieces, and tall backs that are comfortable in the air. The Wallabies in their current form are not that team. Tate Mcdermott or...

Could also try a move to France. Maybe 2 years of higher intensity rugby in arguably the most professional league in the world forces him to settle at one position and irons out his inconsistency before he returns home. It feels like his career is at an inflection point right now.

Buzz strikes me as the type of guy who gets mad when he sees a player wearing pink or neon boots

Lukewarm take but I don't think Brothers and Wests lose favourite status despite a close game with Bond and a loss to GPS respectively. It just means the overall comp is tighter than anticipated.

I heard heaps of guys from Logan Saints are playing 5G for Sunnybank

My gut feeling is that rugby leans older with more families and a few people in their 20s rolling over from playing club rugby during the day. League feels like it not only has more fans overall, but in particular more casual fans that have never actually played league. This is based on...

Realistically do they even have the money to do something similar?

give yourself an uppercut maaaaaaaaate

that $1800 fine will surely teach the former professional athlete to behave!

here's an interesting if tragic hypothetical: if the rebels cease operations after this season, do we see a big outflow of players from Wests? Do they evenly distribute across the QPR subsequently or do a fair portion vanish to overseas/Qcup?

This is the older version of the player who will always be "injured" and never attend games or training but religiously indulges in club nights, tours, and the club merch shop.

Have to think it's a consequence of rugby being late to professionalism compared to other sports. More money in the game would mean a greater incentive to develop juniors through the club system. Sevens in another term could be a stop-gap solution but that does nothing for the development of...

if you locked ChatGPT in a room for 5 years with the 10am Tuesday pub regulars and then asked it to write an article that would annoy as wide a sporting demographic as possible, it might result in that collection of letters, spaces, and punctuation

He looks lethargic. Don't know if it's a lack of motivation due to leaving for league, a demoralizing Tahs environment, or the fact that he is struggling to pull that newfound muscle mass around.