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Other than Tupou, Skelton and Ikitau can see this being the WC team. - Pone sealed his spot as the back up TH - Kellaway clearly the best 15 - Petaia been very good but think he will make way for Ikitau and be the preferred 23. - Tom Hooper made Holloway position in team in doubt, he’s now the...

What a load of trash. The funny thing in this post is not one of these players is what you mentioned. Tupou not born in NZ Pone born and bred on Melbourne Kepu born in Sydney, schooled in NZ TPN born and bred in Sydney I guess to some people you can’t be an Aussie if you look like an islander.

This again is one of the issues. RA don’t run the junior game here, the federated model means that the state unions run the junior programs or more complicated the SRU runs it in Sydney for some clubs and not for others depending on what comp they are in. It’s a mess. RA could do something but...

RA runs the u20s but not the Aus school boys. Hence why we regularly get players selected that end up in the NRL at that age. The Aus School Boys panel might be more fragmented from RA collaboration than the SS is from NSWRU at times. It’s a shame really. What RA have done in recent years is...

Biggest issue RA have is they don’t have control over the entities that technically sit below them. They have no control over NSW, QLD, WA, Vic, Tas etc. they can exert pressure with some states due to funding but there is some that know that RA need the influence as a voting block to affect...

He’s fine. Saw him out in Burleigh Beach when I was there the other week. Pretty sure he’s lined up for Bond Uni in recent weeks. Just out of favor currently.

100% agree. Does absolutely nothing to upskill our players or bridge the gap between Super Rugby and club. Having played QPrem and Dewar this will tank as well. Almost zero interest in fans wanting to watch teams from other states and as a player I’d struggle to see the development opportunity from it...

3. Bell 2. Valetini 1. Skelton HM: Koroibete and Kerevi

I have no idea what that means.

Yes because I was offering superior analysis from a fucking Internet forum. Haha

The difference in potential between the two teams is vast. For starters I didn’t say everyone played well I said didn’t have a bad player. There is a big difference between not bad and played well. On a given day the ABs could play worse and we could be better, hence margins and some lucky...

Some on here absolute clueless clowns. Either trolls or have zero idea on the game. Take the pick for what ever you are, the only difference is trolls know they are doing it, those unaware fall into the zero idea on the game category. I actually thought most of the changes to the starting team...

What are you talking about. I thought he was pretty decent when came on. Reality is nobody was horrible, we were just outclassed. In a strange way that was the wallabies best performance of the 3 so far but just shows how far we are off

It’s been brilliant marketing from those that have done it. The brilliant thing is barely any advertising spend because there has been so much exposure from some people getting hot under the collar for some strange reason.

I presume you’re staying in the CBD, Powerhouse is the easiest club to head to for local games. It’s one of 2 clubs right on the outskirts of the CBD but the easiest to get to via Tram (the Tram will basically drop you right at the fields). The other CBD friendly club is Melb Uni, depending...

coloured areas are seats available. So looks fairly full with still a few days to go. Some tickets still available if people intending to go including Q35-36 which are very cheap for wallabies tickets. Which I wonder if only released late to market

I have been back in QLD for over a year now, so can’t speak for the Rebels current position but I know only 18months ago they are desperate for more games above a club level. Funding is the issue but their thinking internally was exactly the same as the Brums position here. That’s 2/5 clubs...

Absolutely sure of it. They don’t promote it any more than we do, they just don’t promote untruths about players not turning up and key personalities in their rugby community surely don’t bitch about it like ours do. If you trawl through the SS and Premier grade sides each week, it is littered...

His community work here on the Gold Coast is brilliant. Hes consistently doing work for children with Autism (his son has autism).

Lol NZ players play less club rugby than we do. They play NPC and the very occasional club game if there is strangely a week with no Super Rugby or NPC. Can we just stop this narrative? Australian players play more amateur rugby than any other country.