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Piss weak punishment, I'm afraid. Same as I've said about all these new boys who don't get it - show them how much you respect the jersey by fucking them over big time. Kurtley, The Brand, Quade, I'm looking at you.

Yeah, Recommendation 12 + the detail above looks good. Keep the reform going all the way down. But if reform goes all the way down, money has to as well. Put it this way - I wish there was a TryRugby program within 50kms of where I live.

I'm not convinced that all the ails of rugby are NSW's fault. I'm happy to reduce the NSW vote, as has been done, but that doesn't per se, solve anything. If you judge administrators on one or two year cycles, you have a bunch of administrators motivated to reap short-term rewards, that's all...

I'm concerned especially that this structure will deliver a board and membership with a short-term focus. Abandoning the game at school and club level takes about 10 years to flow through to international level.

Recommendation 3, so is that: NSWRU 2 Waratahs 1 QLDRU 2 Reds 1 ACTRU 1 Brumbies 1 VICRU 1 Rebs 1 WARU 1 Force 1 SARU 1 TASRU 1 NTRU 1 Players 1 Total 16 So, for example, NSW interests now have only 3/16 votes. QLD and NSW together have 6/16. That's a major change, I suppose. The rest...

That's right. It would be a restriction of trade.

I have never seen Poey pass the ball more than 50cms. Deans must be seeing some good things at training. Please, please let Deans play the world's best 7 at 9. It would make a fitting finale.

Deans is absolutely consistent. He picks who he sees as the best players, and then tries to find places for them. Do I think this has contributed to our lack of cohesion and execution of game plan? Yes I do.

Can Muttonbrain's two weeks suspension equal Higgers, i.e., he can come back after two games? Poetic justice and all that.

Wait - it's announced? I missed that in the last half hour. If you only take 30 players, then there's not too much to argue about there. I can imagine that there will be a few plane trips over to replace injured players.

Let's bring Mowin' Ben Mowen back into the mix. I reckon he'll do a Douglas. You know he's class he just needs the opportunity. Can I get a Like?

That's actually a legitimate position to hold, MR. Many Kiwis seem to hold the position that, sure, Sir GOAT pushes the laws, but you'd be an idiot if you didn't; and at the same time, hold the position that trying to niggle Sir GOAT off his game is a crime against humanity. Hey, if it works...

He's been banned for 2 weeks, where those 2 weeks are the next two matches. So, applied concurrently, but applying the SANZAR provision to schedule those weeks so they count.

The sad thing is, muttonbrain, that every single person on this forum - whether Aussie or Kiwi or whatever - knows that if the teams were reversed you'd be telling us there was nothing in it, and we were all whingeing about nothing.

Comment from my father at the ground: Any corroboration with this version of events? Or too many XXXX Golds?

Look at a halfback's pass/run/kick stats. It shows how important the pass is. You can't make up for a bad pass with good other stuff. If the pass isn't sharp, then he/she is off my list. Rugby is all about front foot ball. Pull the ball out of the ruck at juuust the right moment and snap it in...

I don't understand how a guy like Phipps even made it to province level. Makes poor decisions, has a horrible step-pass. Throws behind the player (which is also the receiving player's fault - Beale - for not sorting him out at training or in the first half). He's not the worst I've seen, but...

Well, the Wallabies really tried their guts out tonight. Doing it for Sharpey, I suppose. Pretty brutal and exciting, if you like rucks. Which we all do, so no complaints there. I would have liked to win that, but not losing it is pretty bloody good. Good onya boys.

It's just like I predicted - an 18 all draw.

Dickinson favoured the Wallabies style - he didn't allow too much of the rough stuff that upsets our private school fatties.