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Why I am exercising it? I am puzzled by your post, was it a poorly constructed attempt at sarcasm? I must be old, I don't under stand the significance of the stupid head thingy.

Funny that the comments about the "locked thread" are ones of derision from people who shout loudest into their own echo chamber. We then had a very short lived thread objected to the locking, that was deleted altogether after some very civil and well made posts. How far we have fallen.

I agree fully, in fact I would suggest that player stocks are lower now than pre '96 in terms of real numbers. My argument is that they have narrowed the funnel of players entering the Pro system with their talent identification processes and compound that issue with the massive contracts...

Honestly, we need to know if the amateur game is shielded from the fallout of the failure of RA and the state Unions. I don't care if Super Rugby is gone tomorrow. My only real concern is that the real kids and older (kids) get to run around next weekend playing the game we love. I truly fear...

I find it amazing that I quote a single player to highlight an issue and those supporters of the status quo that has led us to near bankruptcy focus with laser like precision on the example and use all the small "buts" to try to destroy the example and lead the argument from the central points...

If money was not an issue and players were staying to compete and take part in Australian Rugby this would not be an issue. The facts don't support it. IMO the sabbatical was a gift for a chosen one, as is Hooper's contract, as was the forgiveness shown to Beale, and prior to that the favoritism...

Yep it is. Look at Liam Gill as an example of a Qld son doing very well OS and what I see as a totally biased fixed system of selection that saw Hooper and Pocock virtually guaranteed the 7 spot between them no matter the form as the amount of money spent on their contracts even before Hooper's...

The funny thing is I think if we dig down in the financials we would find that Super Rugby is a loss maker and has been for years, that is there for a product filler leading to the supposed money earner of the TRC. The broadcast deals and sponsorships are more to minimize the loss. The bigger...

Seriously I would recommend he get his highlights tape to a Euro club and move over there. Super rugby (and Pro Rugby) is dying a slow and agonizing death in Australia. I'd suggest that any young'un interested in a pro rugby career should see AUstralian Rugby for what it is now, little more than...

The myth of big bodies. The size difference between Hanigan for instance and other damaging runners of the ball is not that significant. Size is not the only factor, it is dynamism, drive in contact and a certain mental aspect which I'd call mongrel, that Potgeiter certainly had and no Tahs...

On the form of the season the team I'd like to see, but I know have no chance of seeing is:- 1. Sio 2. Rangi 3. AAA 4. Arnold 5. Rodda 6. Salaki-Loto 7. Hooper 8. Naisarani/Samu 9. Genia 10. Foley 12. Kerevi 13. Kurindrani 11. Koriobete 14. Maddocks 15. DHP 16. Fainga'a 17. Slipper 18...

I don't think its a case R3 of sticking one's nose up at other Sports. I think Pro Rugby in Australia has already lost the war for the hearts, minds and wallets of Australian sports fans. In the country Union I am involved in I have this year seen and heard no discussions about the Wallabies...

The biggest problem the Tahs will have after Kepu goes is that not a single forward in the pack is able to make any metres in tight except him. The Tahs at one stage in the second half against the Jagurares had 80% of the ball and did nothing with it. I have been hoping to see the back of...

I am not confusing anything. I do not think he said anything bigoted or hateful or anything like that. He said the same crap I have been hearing from fundamentalist religious types of all stripes I have heard all my life, I am not surprised in the slightest, nobody should be really, the fact...

My direct experience of such things leads me to be very cynical of outcomes from such individuals. In my experience once a situation comes under the control of types the outcome is more than likely determined by bank balances than by justice in any sense. The lack of transparency and the fact...

You are an absolute fool to make such assertions when you have no idea what I have or have not faced in my life. You have no idea at all what my demographic origin is and what I have achieved for myself now. Your right to asset such things is free speech, as it my right to call you out for...

Go back and have a look at what I have posted since the start. This wilful inability of some to comprehend a basic position is what I find so frustrating in modern debates. Its obstinate and frankly ignorant, and they are the kindest things I can say. What I want is for Rugby in Australia to...

You know I don't think it really is, I think what actually offends some people is that the homosexual reference is included with behaviours that are still held in some disrepute by society and hence being associated with drunkards and adulterers is far worse than being threatened with a "hell"...

It is actually religious communication. And your second point is moot, Free speech is just that, if something (speech) is not proscribed by law it is free. Folau broke no laws. Only by the fevered dreams of some zealots and those who like to be virtuous can what he said be construed as hate...

And how is that important? We all get confronted by things we find offensive and throughout life, at sometimes more than offensive, downright life threatening. If we cannot deal with the realities of life and the FACT that there are arseholes in the world who we will meet and have to work with...