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Add Marley Pearce to the local list for sure

AFL do the same with extended benches named for Sunday games on the Thursday with the final squad 24 hours later

Reckon it's part of the marketing. Folks don't know the name but see the crusaders jersey so must be good.

Force Team 1 Marley Pearce, 2 Tom Horton, 3 Santiago Medrano, 4 Thomas Franklin, 5 Jeremy Williams, 6 Michael Wells, 7 Tim Anstee, 8 Will Harris, 9 Issak Fines-Leleiwasa, 10 Ben Donaldson 11 Chase Tiatia, 12 Hamish Stewart, 13 Sam Spink, 14 Harry Potter, 15 Max Burey; First set...

Sounds more fun than running sand dunes with the regiment PTs yelling at you

Last non Rugby comment. This is my first tournament attended and it's amazing the access you have to players. They have a hang out area behind some fences but just wonder around between the main concourse. Feels like a local carnival just with more spectators

Starting the wave too

The Beach club out the back of the eastern stand. Warm up pitch right next to it seperated by a picket fence

Just before the men v USA. Not a bad crowd for day 1. The Party shed is full

To date the training paddock

Which makes you question why RA are not making a bigger deal of the Sevens teams - particularly the women.

Not sure the NRL catagory - the the other money is predominantly around olympic or international participation

If you take all the interpretations from that test there would be a number of good international refs who are not calling things correct

Men into the final after knocking over Fiji

To be fair to the men the teams the lost to finished 1st, 2nd and 5th

One of the biggest limitations in sports injury prevention is that when there are lo numbers of injuries ( and these numbers are low) one injury can change the statistical significance. It's going to take a few more years of data and the inevitable meta analysis to be able to actually say...

It's nice having the Sevens on Stan

Most clubs are just starting to head into pre-season so from a timing perspective, it's pretty good. With RA's planning I would have expected it about a month out

For anyone interested in the latest paper on looking at a reduced tackle height. Pretty sure it is Open Access https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S144024402300453X Tackling the tackle 1: A descriptive analysis of 14,679 tackles and risk factors for high tackles in a...

As someone who does research in this area - that's it. Tackler is in a bit more control normally. Heads to hips and knees will still happen but unless contact looks like AFL you wont stop those happening. It will be interesting to see implementation. I have a hunch that there will be very...