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I don't believe so. I think 8.8s impact on 8.7 could be challenged by a particularly eager individual, but I think 8.6 & 8.8 are pretty airtight.

Similarly to Kiap's point: for a number of years there were a substantial number of Welsh aligned but English Qualified players who were part of various academy set ups in the English premiership (primarily Bristol and Bath, but some across Gloucester, Worcester & others) who would turn down...

It's an odd one. I legitimately expected either a whole hog (8+ weeks) or a fine with no suspension: the latter of which would have come with an explanation along the lines of "This is an offence not properly coded for in the rules and regulations of the EPCR competition, which will be...

If your argument is that there are no sports where the lines between fully professional, semi professional and amateur are clearly defined and have 0 overlap, I concede that to you. I will comfortably suggest that treating rugby players as cricket players and dropping them ad hoc into suburban...

Yes, AFL PLAYERS play in the SANFL, VFL or WAFL. But they largely play for "professional" outfits. If we look at the 14 clubs who's "reserve" players play in the VFL, you have 11 of them running direct affiliate seconds, 2 running direct affiliates in all but name, and St Kilda. The WA and SA...

People trying to reinvent the wheel are off the mark. What's currently happening isn't working, and "generally" the problem is accepted as being the lack of ability to put rugby minutes in legs, both for "non-selected" and/or returning from injury senior players in the lead up to international...

Fix the discipline and that's a tough but comfortable win.

What game were you watching?

There was a change that dropped the ability to make age grade sides your capture team (which a number of teams were doing, Wales, South Africa and Fiji I think chiefly but a few others as well), I don't think they went much further than that

In 2017 you lost to a Scotland team with Lee Jones, Rory Hughes and Grieg Motherfucking Tonks as the back three. I 100% buy a shit in Sydney narrative.

I appreciate your commentary, but to be frank, by not dropping a name (or alternatively, confirming that they are currently part of the National/State set ups or pathways), all you've said is that an elder statesman, who has been involved in high performance rugby at some point during his...

Just the 1, Tonga go off to play in a pseudo PNC (Pacific Nations Cup)

SWINTON LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL What a fucking joke that he's still contracted in Australia.

Time + No recognized kicker on the field for Aus I think.

Slow to ruck universal it seems

Josh Campbell lmao it would be funny if it wasn't so sad

Wilkin the first Australian defender to successfully tackle Piutau

Fines already having a substantially better impact than Gordo

The only thing close to how bad Aus A were is the Aussie commentator. Fainga'a , Wilkin and Walton the only players I would say putting in "net positive" performances (although far from "good"), everyone is somewhere between anonymous and poor.