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I find it easier to think of it this way - a player bound legally in the ruck cannot pull unbound opposition players into the ruck. If the ruck is over players from the ruck are not onside as they are in front of the offside (last feet) line and hence they cannot tackle the half back from...

The rush defence does need to be better policed by refs and ARs, as does the "Umbrella" defence option with the 13 often offside in this pattern. That said what makes the rush so effective against Australian sides is the woeful kicking game, often just banging it long. Against a good counter...

I can certainly agree about the structures that Grey was using and it certainly didn't help Speight's case. The problem for him as an individual though comes in the form of his decision making and worse the number of incomplete tackles he makes. I don't know that the Brumbies structure in...

Apparently something to do with the U20s. I hope the Wallabies players were not beaten too badly in the scratch games if they played.

I don't think the Wallabies are any real chance unless they dump the "pod system" they have used under Chieka, something I doubt will happen. All the Australian Super sides and the Wallabies have been utterly predictable and easy to defend against. It has nothing to do with "X factor" and...

I'll break my late viewing review down into parts. 1) Referees - lets get it out of the road. They were consistent with the rest of the season. One absolute shocking call with the missed knock on in the second half - easy to miss from Fraser given his in-field position but Jackson (AR) was in...

I read my newsletter last night and was quite happy with the content, excepting the last paragraph. There is a lot to be happy about in Australian Rugby, none of it at the Pro level to be sure, but everywhere I have been over the last two years the game has been holding its own or growing...

Attached will be the "Decision Making Framework" used at the RWC as it currently being used at the U20s WC. Also attached is World Rugby's YouTube Video of the Framework in action with some examples. Also have a look at the U20s games to see it in effect. If the match officials had used...

Attached is the actual Code of Conduct as after 120 pages of this nobody has thought to post it that I've seen.

You have opened with the definition of what my first post was about. Wrong is in the definition and unfortunately not clearly and absolutely defined by RA. Is it in his contract? Black and white, openly stated you cannot do X. No, it is not, because the RUPA negotiated contracting system...

This is a pathetic post. The impact and the transmitted force is plain to see. Looking at how Lilo was holding his shoulder I thought he'd dislocated it or else had the mother of stingers, which given his continuation seems apparent. To say he was taking a dive is ludicrous and makes me...

The "high tackle" yellow card on Tupou was a fundamentally flawed decision making process from the referee team and a very bad decision given they had time to make it. The current process surrounds determining if it is a shoulder charge and under the current framework this was not. Was the...

This is spot on, and the shrinking started back in 2003 when the golden egg was cracked and formed into an omelette for a few who benefitted at the expense of the long term prospects of the game. Lets not forget that to get the sole rights to that RWC JON jumped on the opportunity to take on...

I think you are as usual grasping at straws to support your ever fawning adulation of the administration. The break out victories you are holding onto came pretty soon after injuries to already depleted Kiwi sides. Notice how those sides like the Chiefs without significant senior players who...

Its quite sad that on both sides on any debate now days we have sunk to labelling anybody with a dissenting opinion as Far right of soft lefties or as some sort of ...ist depending on what that person's stance is. On both sides it is a tactic to control the debate and attack the individual...

I said a long time ago, somewhere in 2009-2010, that there is something rotten in the Tahs, when there were so many coaches through the turnstiles and no real change was made. That pattern really hasn't changed with the exception of two years, or maybe one and a bit. What has been consistent...

If people have 30 minutes to listen to a podcast or watch a youtube clip I seriously recommend this as very applicable to this situation, not just in terms of its impacts on RA the organisation and the broader game but in terms of our society. For those who think and at times have posted that...

Yet if you look at the results in those finals from all those years BR they support my view that the Australian Conference is really the second division. That because of the structure of the competition the only reason an Australian side has made the finals at outside of the outlier years of...

I've missed you Cyclo. In a brotherly manner only. :)

I said at the very start - the mark of the fundamentalist mind is hypocrisy. I am sure he has somehow completely reconciled what I and I majority of others regard as a pretty clear cut situation of a broken promise, or otherwise known as a lie. However from my POV this is irrelevant, RA's...