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The first yellow card shown in an international was during the All blacks 1995 tour of France when Irish referee Gordon Black showed it to the All blacks lock Mark Cooksley after he'd punched an opponent in a midweek match at Nancy. The ref later found out that it had yet to be introduced...

SARU proposed conference and the Aussies and Kiwi's the wild card.

don't listen to those lot. Radio for me with tv turned down. The best commentator for me is Tony Johnstone.

well at least it would have meant its a draw and not a loss. It was at altitude so longer the game goes on the more disadvantage the Brumbies would have become. It it went into extra time they would have struggled. But White did brilliantly playing for territory and making the time in opponents...

Chiefs experienced that same fate. Now we have conference system that guarantee a team from each nation in the play offs but are sitting with situations where the final becomes mission impossible for one team.

The wildcard was the NZ and Aus proposal.

Not km's mate time zones. The more you cross the more jetlag hits you. Take into a count you got less than a week to recover. You will find out on Saturday when the Brumbies play the Chiefs what crossing time zones do to you. Just like it happened to the Sharks last year and the Chiefs in 2010...

The flaw in Super Rugby scheduling is going to make this final one sided again. A Jet lagged Brumbies is going to NZ and going to get beaten by 20 points. They should really schedule two weeks gaps for the play off games. A week is nowhere enough. Just look at the Chiefs traveling to Loftus in a...

Aah see your point. NZ had Fitzpatrick, McCaw, ????? SA Bakkies Botha, Butch James and Dean Greyling Aus the Aussie commentary team mostly

The New Zealanders in 1905 became the ‘All Blacks’, the 1906 South Africans were given ‘Springboks’ (from their badge). In 1908 news reached England that the Australian team had adopted ‘The Rabbits’. English postcard makers issued team postcards with that nickname on it. The team’s captain...

So there is no 33 percent Australia receives from a network deal? The highest number Australia could muster was just over 500 000 and that was for the 2011 Final. A regular Bulls Stormers game hit 800 000 to 900000 for a simple round robin game.

Why would NZ have to cut one of its teams? If they were so great they would not need rules to be changed every time to nullify 3 quarters of the rugby world game plans now would they? Afraid of some competition when things are evened out a bit?

Decision to take the lineout instead of kick for posts when you have a new hooker, flank and lock coming onto the field is stupid.

Its not a SARU mess. Its leveling the playing field. And consider the player numbers

Its politics Roff. And Politics + South Africa = I am not touching that one with a twenty foot pole. People must consider after the Super 6 came to a end there was no competition. Who was the team and blokes who put forward most of the money for the Super 10 to get started? Without it there...

But pro wrestling is fake?

Its not about how many numbers pitch up at the ground but how many numbers switch on their TV to watch it. In that SA rakes in most of the cash. Without us you won't have huge network deals to pay the bills. I support the idea of leaving Super Rugby. We don't need it we can go and enjoy the CC and...

Its only cheating if you get away with it.

It's a lot like bent science, in fact, in that you start out with the finding already "known" (in a fan's mind, there is only one team that can win - they "know" the result before the match). The entire match is an observed experiment, and unwittingly, people mix emotion with interpretation and...

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