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I can't agree with Quickhands' forgiving stance on RA. That have completely F^%$ed this one up again, just as they did with Beale, except worse. 1) The total shambles that the Collectively Bargaining agreement is should be apparent to all. What kind of employer allows an group contract that...

I sought clarification on this point at the pre-season workshop on Game Play Directives. The official word is that the tackle is completed when the knee hits the ground and the tackler as in the general field is required to released the tackled player. Of course we can take into account general...

I'm not surprised by this at all. What I am surprised by is that RA has apparently flagged the intention to actually take action. I wonder if this will take 48 to 72 hours to resolve. Now I don't really care what people say on social media, having very little now days to do with any of it, and...

Plenty whinging about referring against the Rebels, here and elsewhere. I don't recognise that as a "bad" referee performance, in fact I actually think the Rebels got away with a fair bit. They were clearly blown a few times and were struggling to get back onside and only got pinged for offside...

1. McIntyre 2. Kearns 3. Topo 4. Giffen 5. Eales 6. Finegan 7. G. Smith 8. Wille O 9. NJF 10. Lynagh 11. Campo 12. Horan 13. Mortlock 14. Tune 15. Burke A couple are very close run things and Ella at 10, but Lynagh was just so consistent for so long. Finegan pushed close by Daniel Manu, a...

My thoughts on this game :- 1) My recurrent thoughts throughout the game was "How dire can a game be? How many poorly executed skills can we see? WTF was that?" 2) Point one pretty much sums it up. Nothing really to get excited about. The Tahs put together maybe three or four phases of play...

Was a recent article in one of the medical journals that had a strong correlation with a fungal infection of all things. The evidence in a cluster group of effected people was pretty startling, but correlation doesn't amount to causation. It (concussion and concussive incidents) may well be an...

With the allegations of biting in this game (Liz Patu alleged to have been hungry) (Qld V WA) I am left wonder why the TMO was not called in to adjudicate as this is a matter of extreme foul play. Is this not available in the Super W? The footage is absolutely clear, just a quick google will...

I didn't rate the Brumbies that highly last week saying something along the lines of the blow out score flattering them because the opposition was terrible. This was the reality check, and the unfortunate fact is they didn't play that much different to last week, it is just that the opposition...

A disappointing game from the Reds. No need to re-hash the individua moments or what some would like to see as contentious calls. For mine the Reds lost this game in their errors which the Crusaders eagerly capitalised on. They took the worst parts of their game last week and repeated those...

Not withstanding the blow-out scoreline in the Brumbies game I rate the Reds game higher simply because the Hurricanes were pretty awful in a lot of their play. Yes the Brumbies played well and executed some lovely rugby, but as direct comparison the Reds opponents offered a far sterner...

IMHO the Reds game last night was the best performance put in by any Australian side including the Wallabies. Apart from perhaps 5 very poorly executed kicks (and even then the kick was the right option just poorly done) they played very well, and I must say it was heartening to see an...

Holy crap. I'd hoped to see some sort of improvement in the Tahs. Gibson got a pass from me for last year as this is really his first year unencumbered by the remains of Chieka, ie Grey. But we see that significant recruitment issues have not been addressed, and they still rely heavily on big...

Gibson said in the half time interview they were playing a defensive centre pairing against the big centre runners of the Canes. In other words Beale can't defend for shit and sticking him next to Foley who can tackle but is as far from dominant as can be is asking to lose by multiples of 7...

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Only problem with an otherwise good theory is that given he should be so visible the only thing we see of him is knocking on the final lineout (admittedly after getting a penalty jumping at 2 in the previous one). I think I saw maybe two other significant involvements from him in the whole game...

I do not understand what Hanigan does to warrant selection. Completely missing, apart from pressuring in a maul and the usual high work rate of a blow fly bashing fruitlessly on the window what does he do?

"My Tahs" have been shit for years and that is unlikely to change. It doesn't change the facts, that "your" team are so obviously coached to cheat professionally. Its sad really, the skills are there and the production line of great players is truly amazing, but the lauded foul play of Franks...

Ah Oldboy, you realise that only Crusdaers fans think its an even playing field. You can have your smug sacrcasm, The Crusaders (and fans) are like lawyers convinced of their brilliance and think everyone respects them - you may have to deal with them but contempt is the usual emotion that is felt.

I find it impossible to like the Crusaders. They get undersevered assistance from lilly livered Refereeing so often. Consistently offend in their 22, multiple warnings , favourable wanking on by commentators marveling on the dirty cheat Owen Franks, lying on the tackled player preventing quick...