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What possible reason can there be for this?

Reading most of the comments online, shouldn't the title of the thread be changed to Brisbane v South Africa - Australia 7th September 2013?

Close... whether Boshoff (the Lions winger) loss the ball or not is a factual question, I am more interested in the law. As I said, anywhere else on the pitch, penalty, but it just look wrong if it is in the act of scoring. No matter how many times I watch it, blue 12's actions don't 'look...

Moving on, here is a "interesting" call from the Lions/WP CC game this weekend. http://www.sarugbymag.co.za/blog/details/province-pay-the-penalty Interesting call. De Allende came in from the "wrong side", going off his feet to stop the attacker from placing the ball. Had it happened...

He wasn't part of Mallet's 17 wins in 1998 either, he joined a year later just before the 1999 world cup.

By your reasoning not a lot with Lionel Mapoe, Trevor Nyakane, Raymond Rhule, Chilliboy Rhalepele, Albert Lethuli or Jacob Zuma?

Pretty much irrelevant where players went to school, otherwise the Bulls would be languishing CC 1st division. Also that list is wrong, Kingswood, St Andrews and Craddock are all in Eastern Province (not sure about Dale, but they are in Kingwilliamstown which is on this side of the Ciskei so...

I'm fine with Du Preez's inclusion, he is the same age as Carter, Nonu and C Smith. I think there are similarities between him and G Smith. Both went backwards during their last few seasons in the SH due to injuries, but some time off in Japan might just be what they needed to recover and...

Close- Think Meyer will go with Beast Strauss Du Plessis Etzebeth Flip Van der Merwe / Kruger Louw Alberts Vermeulen Du Preez Steyn Basson / Le Roux / Engelbrecht De Villiers / Serfontein Engelbrecht / De Villiers Habana Le Roux / Kirchner Bsmarck Steenkamp Oosthuizen Flip / Kruger...

If the levelers (salary cap in this instance) worked, why are the original three franchises in Australia so much stronger than the other two. The force currently have a shot at winning the super 15, but they don't. In your proposal the likes of Kyle Godwin and Luke Jones won't even get a shot...

The closed conference idea is a popular one at the moment and it does solve some of the problems, but it creates new ones. Firstly you are trying to con the public, especially in Australia, into believing that they are watching super rugby when in fact they are watching the ARC in a different...

I am not so sure. The way I see it we want room in the calender to have proper currie cup that we can run what any way we want. We only need/want another team in super rugby if the currie cup is going to continue the way it has for the last three seasons due to the expanded super season.

There are a couple such anomalies. One that would not be very popular on this board is the Waratahs, whose results are basically the reverse of the Cheetahs with 15 in conference wins vs 8 out of conference wins. With a smaller sample, the Kings are also interesting, with 0 wins in...

Going completely off topic, the cheetahs have a very interesting set of results over the last three years. They have won only 6 from 24 within their conference (four of those wins coming this year), while winning 14 from 24 against foreign opposition.

Actually I am not sure what the result would of adding further franchises in each country. The stats I quoted doesn't really answer the question one way or the other. What the stats do indicate is that the relationship between number of franchises and results do not support your contention...

Hmm, no it doesn't, it indicates the lions have been shit for a very long time. What that means for the depth available to all 5 South African franchises is an inference. And as general rule it is a bad idea to draw an inference from a statistical outlier. Without checking, I believe that...

I don't like negotiations of this sort. We are unhappy therefor you must be equally unhappy is not the way to do these sort of things. I would prefer if the starting point being what is the maximum benefit each partner can get from working together. That being said, I think this should be a...

Interesting set of stats about the results of the three countries since 1996, but it doesn't say much about the effect expansion has on the competition. Since 2006, when the super 12 became the super 14 and then finally the Super 15 there have been marked changed though. I am too lazy to...

Hmm, yes, they have been super consistent. The data you posted is their ranking* over the history of super rugby (taking the Cats to be the same thing as the lions, which I agree with). In 17 years they have been ranked last 5 times, been ranked in the bottom 3 on 14 occasions and only...

Should I take your comment to mean that the current super rugby format is perfect? I apologise for my sarcasm, but I am sick of people looking at the final product and then blaming the other partners because it does serve their purpose. I want to know what do Australians want from super...