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I genuinely hope not. The saving grace of a Super Rugby sans RSA teams is that all games take place at "reasonable" times and travel is kept to a comparative minimum. An Argentine team would destabilise what little foundation remains for a competition worth following and supporting.

Of the British but non-Scottish educated. - Ewan Ashman and Ali Price have always been involved in the Scotland age grade set up. - Sam Skinner, Ben White & Cam Redpath were in the England U20 system. - None of Huw Jones, Chris Harris or Javan Sebastian played British rep rugby after school...

I like Squidge and enjoy his content. But he is overly verbose which can be very annoying. Like, his Post-Pivac video ( which is my favourite of his) is 40 minutes long. What does it say? Pivac tried to replicate his Scarlets plan practically one to one. This plan involves: - Attacks primarily...

Adam Coleman, Tom Staniforth, Lopeti Timani, Steve Mafi, Steve Cummins, man mountain Manny Meafou who'd likely be in the Les Bleus if we still had the 3 year rule instead of the 5 year one: all running around the URC or Top14 as well, even if some of them are playing with different National Jerseys.

Squidge is a classic take with a grain of salt situation I feel. I think he's really good at breaking down individual chains of play into what works and why, but overextends himself when proscribing that to grand strategy looking forward. I thought his "why Pivac didn't work" videos was his...

More than 28 years since the game was made open and people still get worked up over the reality of professional sport. Identify, remunerate and develop the best of your local talent or someone else will. Valetini is probably the best player VIC has produced in decades but the Brumbies made the...

Don't virtually all the Super Rugby franchises bar the Brumbies? Tahs running primarily with guys like Holloway and Hanigan and only having got in the raw lump of Amotasero, Rebels losing two genuine locks in Phillip and Hosea for the comparatively light LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto), Force continuing to run with a...

Everybody looking like they're having a good time out there except poor Lambert at the mo', getting worked over a little at scrum time.

A good few held back for Ealing next week, which is interesting.

Does anyone in that sort of role actually run their own public social media accounts?

That's fair, any team with Jake Gordon starts well behind.

I don't disagree that Wales haven't proven shit but last years test was an out of window one? They were missing a number from the premiership was my recollection.

Wright is Wallaby 939, Kells is Wallaby 941 ergo he's newer ;)

Here is my lazy and underinformed attempt at a 12 team comp if the point of an ARC/NRC/National Comp is to be entirely domestic. Where \w is used it indicates a junior partner rather than a genuine combined team. Canberra Vikings (ACTRU {exc Penrith} \w SIRU) Melbourne Axemen (VRU \w Wests)...

Did you read the comment? Leota is an international standard backrow, but doesn't seem to be seen as an 8 for the WOBs. But his skillset works fine at Super level at 8 which still allows for more non-traditional pack compositions to work. I like Daugunu, but Eastman's description of him as "a...

IDK about that. If you look at where "substantial" points gap exists, the teams go: Ireland, South Africa, France, NZ Scotland Argentina, Fiji, England, Australia Wales Georgia, Samoa, Italy Japan Tonga Portugal, Uruguay, Romania, Spain Namibia, Chile Is that not a fairly accurate take on how...

Well there's the Stand off depth. Happy enough with that. Strong enough player that we won't be in the shit and running Jooste or Mason there if Carter misses games, not outstanding to the point that he can't be left out of the 23. Dobbins is a good pick up as well.

At the end of the day I'm not willing to have a fourth world cup where the narrative is that factors outside of our control were the reason for our exits. The teams we're playing against are less than ideal, but we've got the best possible draw to manage our best XV. We've had three games...

Please ignore, I think we will still be competent knowing what to prepare for but the SA forwards will blow ours up. Slightly improved chance v Ireland IMO, but still unlikely.