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I think the situation is a little more complicated than that though. There are serious differences between the way the game are refereed in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, particularly with regards to the actions of the tackler and the maul*. The more experienced the referee the more...

Show some restraint godamit. Haven't you heard, if you bring your boots to the game, and appear half sober you could be starting a super rugby game for the sharks this weekend.

Perth really struggles with distance and the hours spent travelling does affect them, but the other Ozzie sides do get a pretty sweet deal. Distance travelled isn't that much of an issue I think. A three hour flight isn't really that taxing and guys can still sleep in their own bed, train at...

Kicking was the only thing they were doing so most of the good things that would happen would involve a kick at some stage, that does not mean more good things would not have happened if they used other options.

On another note. There is this famous story of Jake White telling his first test team that in four years time they would win the World Cup. Now, I don't have much time for that sort of cheap psycho-babble, but it is interesting to look at Meyer's first test side and see where they are one year...

Despite the success in 2009, the game plan was wrong. The great majority of kicks yielded nothing (despite Du Preez being absolutely brilliant at it, and everything else for that matter). The success in 2009 was down to one of the best packs of modern times all playing at the top of their...

In related news, the Waratahs has made a (admittedly small) profit for the last two years. There are also reports that the Reds have made a profit of $1.6m last year. It would be interesting to consolidate the reports of the ARU, the franchises and the amateur bodies as I think it will give...

I think these are players that have been signed to the sevens side, but I am pretty sure Geduld has played a couple of games for WP vodacom cup team.

re The Baby Bok side Fewer big name forwards than the 2012 vintage, but should be able to put together a really excellent 10-15. Pollard - Pietersen - Serfontein - Swanepoel - Senatla - Koble will do some damage if the forwards can deliver some ball to them.

http://www.sarugby.net/article.aspx?category=sarugby/juniors&id=1898404

I should probably waited till tomorrow to comment, but one of the problems I've found with comparing the performance of different unions over the world is the difference in structure. For example in South Africa the franchises/unions are given far more autonomy in raising money and contracting...

A blind man driving an overpriced car recklessly with no thought for the younger generation? Good metaphor for rugby governance in the SH.

I am going to skip past all the interesting arithmetic and focus on this part. JoN and Quade should both be at the pointy ends of their professions, so imagine this scene... Quade is running to the north end of Suncorp stadium, one defender to beat, that one defender is JoN. Any bets on...

Another thing that stood out for me was how much money the ARU generate from matchdays (I take this to mean people actually showing up at the stadium. Whenever people talk about poor crowds, you hear people say that it doesn't really matter because most of the money comes from broadcasters...

Colour me skeptical. Our experience in 2009 was that tickets were very very tough to get, but swaths of the stadiums were empty. I assume these tickets were allocated to traveling fans that never quite materialised. (Less of an issue with the test matches though). Also the lions do take...

Thanks a lot for that. I am not in the business going through these sort of reports so I enjoy someone else doing the leg work to make sense of it. A couple of things stood out for me. 1- JoN's salary seems disproportional to the size of the organisation and his own performance. Nearly 3...

Jeez that is an uninspiring lot, which is strange as the super results have been pretty good overall.

The waratahs are languishing at amongst the also-rans and, though the brumbies very good, the sharks were truly awful in the first half of against the brumbies.

Running it out at the end was the right option, but again just pop it up to a looseforward to carry it up without much support is symptomatic of the Bulls problems. Every team has strike moves and conservative setup moves, this was neither.

Yeah this, the problem isn't just that are kicking everything away, but the kicking game is poor and the way they line up means that they have no options available to the decision-makers. Also after about three seconds of the game they should have realised that brumbies were just going to punt...