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Sorry Fellas -Mexted was dropped from the commentary team last year. Justin Marshall & Grant Nisbit call the games. Sideline stuff by Ian Smith Ian Jones usually hosts the pre / post match

The IRB already have this.

Although some stats showed that McCaw was pinged 5 times, He was in fact penalised 3 times. Of the other 2 pens recorded against him one should have been Muliaina, the other was Whitelock. The 3rd pen McCaw rec'd was later in the match when the ABs were on attack he was penalised for going off...

Best wishes to the Cannon family and most of all to Samuel for a full recovery.

Critical of course is the number of Junior club & school players - is this on the rise? or are the other 3 ball codes taking the lead again in playing number increases?

Leader - You are on to it. the 1884 NZ team had round neck long sleeve t-shirt style tops, the Original 1905 All Black jersey had a round lace up neck & leather yoke. From about 1907 they have a small laceup plaquet and a small round collar - the 1924 team had a leather plaquet and lace - that...

Kooga woud have looked for the cheapest possible option for the BaaBaas kit. They are "semi" obligated to kit them out. It is not much of a commercial opportunity at all. The BaaBaas play once every few years. How many jerseys would they sell each year? - Maybe 100-200 tops eg 10-20k profit -...

"DPK I think part of the idea is that the jersey changes into a darker shade of yellow, more like the optimal gold, when it gets wet. It sort of seemed to work on some of the jerseys, I think we'll need to wait until the Wallabies play in New Zealand to see if it really works. " Yes...

Sorry Groucho, but you are completely wrong. THE NZRU have had their specifc FERN trademarked since at least 1986. Prior to that the fern they used was more generic. In order to trademark it they had to design the one used by them now. Both their fern and name are registered in multiple...

Warriors winger - Manu Vatuvei is being mentioned as a possible signing http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=10622419

Cheers Scarfman. Fair enough, I was being facetious My reference to the 3-4% was more about the meaningless claim from Kooga. Eg performance on the field has nothing to do with what a player wears. Its about desire, heart and guts and a bit skill does help of course.

"They include carbon fibre which is claimed to lower the heart rate by up to at least four beats a minute. KooGa spent two years researching and developing the "state-of-the-art" technology before submitting the winning jumper design to the Australian Rugby Union, "The state-of-the-art...