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there is nothing surer that Tim North , QC (Quade Cooper), would be well aware of the Rebels legal position involving such a deal. Even if it is arguable it will tie up the ARU in court well past any cut off date for SANZAR needs to form a super comp next year with only 15 teams. Reading earlier posts it...

I'm not sure that increasing the number of Kiwi imports will solve much in terms of quality performances. The money available for the better players from what I can gather is considerably better in Europe / Japan etc, so the better NZ players would head there before here, meaning the ones we get...

Totally agree, if the ARU's position has been to cull a team due to the financial unsustainability of 5 teams, then it stands to reason that if the financial performance of the Force and Rebels is underwritten by both Forrest and the Victorian Gov at least until the end of the current broadcast...

The scheduling of the Saturday tests is the strangest aspect of this June series. Why a code that has witnessed weakening supporter numbers ( Clyne's own comments) for some time now, schedules Test matches in direct competition to it's supporters. How many of the rugby community will be unable...

From memory Goddard was included after the ACT 9, Lonergan was concussed for the second time in the season in the Oceania tournament. Goddard and Strang were not originally selected.

Hearing a few of the Vic lads now back in Melb to cover the injuries in the super squad..

is there a table out there for this U20 comp. Do they have bonus points, or is it just a for and against format?

I notice that Perese isn't mentioned anywhere as a centre.. he is definitely eligible. He and Tuipuluto would be devastating in the centres, chuck in potentially Hutchinson / Kennewell and Maddocks at the back you have a very capable attacking back line.

I think Rebels 3 is pretty close. To begin with I think reducing team numbers is a backward step for the game. The governing bodies need to find a format that works and then support their franchises to success. The NFL have an excellent competition with a conference system being the key. A...

I've enjoyed watching all the games this season on the live stream. I'm not as familiar with this age group as the year ahead, but have watched all these proposed options at 9 and 10 through their final school years and in this seasons games. I think that the selectors have some good choices...

Which boys are heading to 5 kick?

Congrats to all those selected. Very few players asserted themselves in the tournament as the clear choices, which makes the seemingly politically biased selections an easy argument. From the couple of days I saw, the reputed players did not do enough to make their selections obvious, so it's...

Should be within the hour. Once all the team awards are done, best team guy, best manager etc, which takes a while, they then announce both teams. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Schoolboys side will be a lottery. Looked like not very many stand outs over the week. ?? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's exactly right. He had a choice between both codes, with league very keen to get him into a full time development environment. Not chasing an atar and doing tafe, made it a pretty obvious choice for him. The selectors have the right to make a choice ( a wrong choice in my opinion) , and...

I didn't really take stats on what went on out there regarding the "who played 10, who played 12" debate, but it looked more like GPS 1's were often playing either the 10 on one side of the ruck and the 12 on the other side. Sheldon seemed to mostly distribute down the left with Wilkinson down...

Shouldnt be much delay on announcement. This is the best selection lead in they've had for a long time so i'd say the teams are basically selected and just some rubber stamping from round 6.

McGregor and Clancy were the 2 #10's that NSW lost to acl injury and then they lost O'Shea to hamstring injury, so he was definitely in the frame for 20's representation, but injury ruled him and the others out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I believe the general rule is that a player must have played a full game before sitting on the bench as a fresh reserve for a 1st XV fixture as an example. It is not unusual for a 1st XV player to have 1/2 a game in the 3rds then 1/2 a game in the 2nds before subbing for the 1st XV. I don't...

Riverview also played and quite easily beat St Augustines in 2013. So to the best of my knowledge it has been 2013, 2014 easy wins to Riverview and a close loss in 2015 with View's Aus schoolboy #10 at least not playing, I think there were also some forwards missing that day through injury but I...