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Exactly the benefit of increasing to 37/38 (if the additional players are argies) is that you get a larger squad. look at the injury toll throughought Australian rugby - you need larger squads to rotate players through and give stars a rest every now and then. it's a bloody big season for a...

It's a selection policy and a requirement for the job - it doesnt restrict the player's ability to work where he wants. if he wants t go play in europe he can, but he will then fail to meet the selection requirements for the wallabies. it is not a restraint of trade at all. hence why it is so...

what are the current squad sizes? 30 players? keep it as is, but allow teams to have up to an additional 2 players if they are argentinian. if to some extent that is implemented across super 15, then that could be up to 30 argentinians playing in super rugby. this would not harm australian...

Canada lost to NZ Maori 32-19 at Oxford. Game was televised live in Canada and full highlights available in YouTube. End of Canada's tour.

I completely agree with you on the argentinians. that should be the way across SA, AUS and NZ teams - they aren't marquees or alternatively allow 2-3 argies per Super rugby team and a further 2-3 marquees per team. It would be a huge benefit to the argentinian national team having their players...

Canada thumped Russia 35-3 past two games have been broadcast live in canada on the major sports network, tsn. there's a link on rugbycanada.ca to watch the game online - the samoa game is available on demand and i believe the russian game will be too.

Ok you don't like big hard running centers like Inman. I get it. And you have undying loyalty for McCabe. Whatever. By to suggest betham has earned a wallaby cap off npc performance is absurd, and I like betham. Coleman?? Ridiculous Mogg - ok but he has had one season and he slowed off at the...

i actually think that, genia being out aside, that is as good a team as deans has named. cummins played great last week so he deserves his spot. love taps and AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) in the centres and barnes has looked quality at 15. so glad mccabe is out. pack will improve with timani, but they should start gill...

Robinson Moore Alexander Sharpe Simmons Timani Hooper Palu Sheehan KB (Kurtley Beale) Ioane Barnes Tapuai Cummins AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) TPN Kepu Slipper Samo Dennis - what other locks has deans taken over? where is neville? Phipps McCabe Mitchell Harris is horrid. McCabe is not a 12 and phipps shoudl be replaced by burgess...

agree with almost all you say but i would rank it 1. Genia 2. sheehan 3. white/kingi 4.strizacker 5. mckibben 6. phipps 7. hart has immense potential. i don't rate lucas that much, but he could be quality with more time.

Phipps is not an international scrum half. and he's not really a starting super rugby 9. before he was injured, kinghi was killing it for the rebels and would have remained in the starting spot had he not got down. strizaker (sp?) is far superior from what I have seen. i dont get this defending...

That is a good win for the cherry blossoms

Yup. We were missing DTH van de merwe, Jamie cudmore, jebb Sinclair, and ander Monro tho I think he has retired and we are now in a transition phase in the 9 and 10 positions We weren't as bad as the scoreline suggests. Just some sloppy handling. Samoa looked quite disciplined as well

what are you guys on about? read the releases - all june tests, rugby championship, lions and bledisloe matches will be shown live on FTA across the country from 2013-2015. in addition the super rugby highlights package will be shown weekly (no indication of what time)

a difference of 4 players.....we're not trading sheep stations here.

anyone able to let me know what exactlyl kearnsy said about quade post match? foxtel didn't record the post match interviews and commentary for some reason. quade's mea culpa is a bit much a bit late to honest. where was this a month ago after the comments? that kid has overplayed his hand and...

i reckon you'll only see the wallabies that can afford to do it. JOC (James O'Connor) would be on enough money to take a 6 month break to gear up for 7s. ditto maybe quade. i'd doubt KB (Kurtley Beale) would ever have the fitness for it. hooper could be solid and if he's on enough money by then, you'd have to think he is a chance.

I broadly agree with you LG. An alternative proposal I was discussing with a friend was for each team to be allowed 4 foreign players in their squad. 2 Marquee and 2 Development. Ideally the 2 development spots could be used on Argentinians and or Islanders who don't qualify for australia, yet...

i'll give the tournie the benefit of the doubt since it is only in its second year, but the crowds are tiny. at any one time there's probably been no more than 10,000 in there. probably less than that. they should be marketing the hell out of this thing to the kiwis who are just coming out of...

didn't he do his hammy at the start of the season and then do it again? first time was pretty bad. but yes - a bit much on the "injury prone" by me