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thanks Sonny Bill

He couldn't be more wrong - ripped jeans aren't trendy anymore

Wonder how the rugby bug bit him. Gridiron football and in particular college and high school football is a religion in Dallas/Abilene/Lubbock. There are high schools with 10k+ seat stadiums and a plurality of 5 star and 4 star recruits come out of that area. Going back to the topic, unsure...

Or someone who earned top marks in kindy for his knowledge of nursery rhymes. Being intelligent means knowing when it's appropriate to just get to the point.

There's a lot of talk about what Brothers does wrong, some of it from me and my bag of sour grapes. It's also worth discussing what they do right considering every grade made finals. In terms of culture, coaching, and organization structure are there lessons for other clubs that could help...

Surely QRU has responsibility rather than GPS in that scenario if they gave clearance? GPS would be filthy about that and would have wished they'd gotten it in writing. I won't begrudge a club for following the letter of regulations rather than the spirit of them, especially in higher grades...

I'm sympathetic to the "best player available" argument that rewards clubs for building depth and allocates players on merit. My counter would be then why prevent currently ineligible higher grade players from dropping down and playing 2s or 3s if Prems miss finals? Wading into the subjective...

"If they aren't kicking out a long term squad member of the team they're joining" is a big assumption. Maybe it increases the odds of Colts returning, but it probably decreases the odds of the grades players returning. Compete in finals with the players you had during the season. Especially in...

His body height into contact is atrocious though, which is aggravated by the fact that he's 6'5". It's not as big of a deal in league but he would get abused at 12 unless he irons out that tendency.

A lot of the negatives about the game are attributable to talent discrepancy, lack of cohesion, and a new coach. But going along with my earlier complaint about going off their feet in rucks and the point @Running_rugby_1954 made, if the South Africans are going to stretch the rules then why...

Saffa expat housewives are about to be particularly insufferable to every hospo worker in Perth for the foreseeable future.

positive spin: I'm seeing hints of a dangerous offload game by the forwards

Is my judgement wrong or are South Africa off their feet on the majority of the rucks they clean out?

Nothing really does the job well for turf burn. Rigid strapping tape works best for covering preexisting cuts but it restricts your movement and tends to come off on knees and elbows. Compression sleeves aren't fun in hot weather and the ball slides off them easier compared to bare skin on your...

The argument for playing Hospital Cup or Shute Shield would be that it's a higher standard of play than the local competition and the benefits for Super Rugby development outweigh any potential loss of cohesion or training synergy. Is that always the case? Depends.

We've all had a hardo coach who draws a bit too many parallels between military/war and sport. Funny to see that the higher echelons of rugby aren't immune.

Yeah purely speculation on my part. Would be interested to see a breakdown in the data they're using to claim a reduction in injury (e.g. a significant fall in contusions and cuts paired with a minor rise in ligament and joint injuries would still count as a reduction in injury). Also...

I can't speak to that specific technology but I am wary of synthetic turf. Higher injury risk, boiling hot in the sun, and friction burns. Feels like choosing the lesser of two evils between synthetic and the current set-up at Brothers.

Multiple players have said Japanese rugby compared to Super Rugby is much less physical and more oriented toward running/offload rugby. Considering we looked physically over-matched on the weekend I'm not sure a bunch of Japan-based players will be as beneficial in reality as they would be on...

I hope a substantial carve-out of that budget is for new grass and drainage. Brothers is a rough place to hit the dirt.