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The competition for the ball, which is the nature of the game of rugby is over when the ball is at the back of the scrum to be played. If the scrum has become static or unplayable as outlined in Section 25 the ball should be played. This idea of playing for a penalty is not in keeping with the...

Both have been starting players, where at the Tahs both were sometimes starters usually benchies as a first up touchstone on their improvement, secondly in starting they have both fulfilled their roles, with Lousi winning more lineouts and getting mentioned more in tight play than he did in his...

Skelton is reviled a lot but in a lightweight workrate pack, with a forwards coach to actually teach some technical aspects and technique he (or somebody like him) would fill some significant holes in the Tahs skill set. Nobody in the professional era at the Tahs has been as effective as...

Law 19 States:- "25. If a scrum collapses or if a player in the scrum is lifted or is forced upwards out of the scrum the referee must blow the whistle immediately so that players stop pushing. 26. When the scrum is stationary and the ball has been available at the back of the scrum for...

Fitzpatrick. Holloway to 8 or bench 6/lock Recruit a LH lock to partner Simmons, someone like Skelton or a Huricanes version of Lousi who can have a material effect at the ruck, maul and gain line. At the moment no Tight five forward except Kepu has any effect with Latu occasionally stepping in...

My view on the game might upset a few as usual:- 1) The Tahs workrate forwards did their workrate but without effect it is meaningless. It is good to make the tackles but if they concede the gain line by meters every time and a dominant tackle is rare it really makes the battle for possession a...

LOL. Of course that has a baring on it. :)

I don't understand at all what you are raising. Grey had been in the position as assistant defence coach since 2013. While Gibson inherited him and the flawed roster of players (no second row) and the defensive system went to shit with the new structure from 2016 onwards. Gibson changed to the...

You will note that during that time I asked the question on innumerable occasion's "whay has the competition winning strong defence of the Tahs gone to shite? The answer was plainly obvious that is was down to the structures being used in 2016 & 2017 with players shuffling all over the field...

Not really. He is dynamic in the air and I could see him filling a role like Mowen did at the Tahs and the Brumbies, as a lineout dominant backrower. He isn't a lock really and certainly not a set piece lock like Simmons. As I've said before I was always rather dismissive of Simmons at the Reds...

1) Kepu at the end of next year (meaning 2019 is key development year) is a critical recruitment/development priority. Johnson-Holmes is coming along well but I'd like to see another genuine THP that can dominate a scrum coming into the picture. I wish Sam Needs had gone to France for a couple...

One key thing not mentioned, is that Cheika in 2014 and Link in 2010 both inherited very good squads that needed some rounding out and some work on different aspects of their games to make them genuine contenders. I have long argued that the ground work for Link at the Reds was set by Mooney...

My solution involves a Stalinist type purge of the population.

Honestly? How can you say that? Nothing has been said publicly and privately either from the people I have spoken to, or on the extended club rumour mill either.

I had hoped that with Mick Byrne in the Wallabies set up Foley's kicking from hand would have improved in terms of reliability. I do not expect great increases in distance, but last weekend his technique and set up for the two missed penalties to touch were atrocious. With the second kick his...

Most probably right, in that regard they were hung out to dry by RA no doubt with the input of RUPA regarding Hunt. I just do not fathom the binning of Cooper unless they are playing ducks and drakes about some disciplinary breach they wish to keep, it doesn't matter they are IMO burning money...

It doesn't matter how many angles you look at if one shows an arm around the neck as this one clearly does and force is applied, enough to force a 100KG bloke to flip it is a high degree of Foirce which the directives make a Red card. The same for the Cane incident against the French and Ofa in...

If you have bought a piece of capital equipment that you cannot afford to replace immediately you get the best you can out of it, within reason. Hunt should have been dumped for bringing the team into disrepute and breaching his behavioural undertakings from his last episode regardless of what...

Actually given the playing roster I think the Sunwolves are playing at and in some games above their potential and crucially playing good Rugby doing it. As opposed to what we have been seeing from Australian teams far to often, sides performing way below what they are capable of.

I've just seen the replays as well as the selected clips above on the Pocock neckroll. How the Citing Commissioners justify the selective application of the Laws is beyond me. They certainly do nothing to address the perception that NZ players are getting a free ride. We have seen far too...