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And then we complain about coaches sticking to boring cliches in the media. Because if they state something that outside our usual expectations, it becomes "dreadful optics", even if it's actually true.

If Eddie does keep up that weekly podcast through the year, he's going to absolutely own the conversation around rugby in this country - even more so than otherwise.

Assume they don't want to give opponents footage for analysis?

My son played from 6 years of age up until the end of school, with a break for a couple of years in his early teens. I'd do the same today. In that time, I only saw a very small number of concussions across the games he played, maybe 3 or so, and none serious (all players, my son didn't suffer...

I only caught some of the presser, but I found it interesting that Eddie indicated that the make-up of the coaching team would be defined by what the players need. Seems inverted from the normal approach of securing the best coaches available in the normal categories of forwards, backs, defence...

It'd be ironic if we replaced one schoolboy prodigy with another. Max J is good, but he'll need to be spectacular for the Tahs to take the risk over the available options.

True, but Eddie likes to play 4D chess in everything, probably letting Dan stew for a few days before making contact. He's obviously been pretty active even before officially starting work yesterday.

I momentarily thought the pool was part of the fan village as I walked out there. But not at that cost.

I'd love to know how the players manage the heat after games - I saw a couple of the US women's players wearing ice vests during warm-up - I thought they'd all be using those. Presumably ice baths after the game.

They’ve used the training ground outside the SFS in previous years, but it’s a bad look to have the gold medal, World series, and World Cup-winning Australian women’s side playing games on a training paddock.

I was there yesterday, good weather for Sevens with cloud cover and a breeze, must be brutal today. As you mentioned in the other thread Adam, good vibe, plenty of fun, crowds probably didn't show up well on TV since they were all on the camera side of the ground. I see the match reports from...

He looks fit - great story in the SMH from G Rob about him: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/i-m-proud-i-didn-t-give-up-how-nadolo-clawed-his-way-to-a-second-shot-with-the-waratahs-20221219-p5c7gv.html

If you're not excited about the season at this stage - either as player or fan - then you'd have to be pretty cold. Of course everyone's enthusiastic, I'm sure that's the case in every team.

I reckon Rugby Australia's figuring that salary is $4.5M over three years, not five - if we get more than three years out of Eddie, it'll be a bonus.

How many Which first tier nations aren't a shit show? NZ - spent much of 2022 pretending that Foster was a good choice. Sth Af - Rassie. England - sacked Eddie 9 mo before a RWC, despite Eddie being all about RWCs. Ireland - they seem to administer well, but what's the Post-Sexton future? And...

Freeze and slowly zoom in on Reg's face. Voiceover: "It was not a little project..."

That's all true BH, but you need to give some Shute Shield supporters space for their grudge against the Tahs, it's important to their identity.

where’s the announcement for this?

Love it.

Some good quality whinging here, but I certainly enjoyed the Tahs-Crusaders game this year.