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It's a hell of a lot less unfair than some guy ending up in a wheelchair from getting smashed in the neck. It obviously has a cost, but this has to be a priority. And side-bar: I think the ABs were deliberately trying to (legally) rough-up Hooper, which is a completely legitimate thing to do...

Back in about 2012 I was in a little dive pub in Posnan with my girlfriend, and I saw this big old guy with the kind of face that absolutely screamed "I have played in the front row for several decades". I went over and asked him and it turned out he was the youth development officer for the...

I've got money on Australia for this one. No Coleman is big, but I feel like these guys have entered a phase of just knowing how to win games. Wallabies by 10, Hooper/Genia/Foley/KB (Kurtley Beale) to play blinders, Simmons to get unfairly maligned in the blog comments.

I'm amazed they haven't picked Itoje. I haven't watched much of him since the Lions tour - has he come off the boil?

3. Dempsey 2. Folau 1. Coleman

I don't pay super close attention to school rugby - is this true? I graduated from Cranbrook 12 years ago, and we went down to 5ths (that's year 11 and year 12 combined).

He has absolutely gargantuan thighs: http://www.espnscrum.com/scrum/rugby/image/244567.html?page=3

I am very, very bald. I get all the derision of playing on the wing and none of the grooming benefits. And Sydney Harlequins.

Mate that would be really useful, thanks.

I've done regular physio for five months post-op, but the costs are starting to stack up a wee bit so I was planning to scale back.

Last year I did my ACL playing on the wing in a fourth division subbies game (two weeks before my wedding) because I'm an elite athlete and that just comes with the territory. I'm about 5 months since surgery, and my surgeon reckons I can play again once I'm a year post-op. . I just wanted to...

Yeah good call. I don't reckon the All Blacks are anywhere near invincible - mainly because the defence is leaky. This season, they lost to the Lions, drew with the Lions (for my money if there was a fourth game they would have lost that too), nearly lost in Dunedin, and nearly lost in South...

3. Dempsey 2. Hodge 1. TPN

A penalty for making accidental contact, including when the attacking player slips, is insane. I understand that it's intended to remove any grey area, but for god's sake it's a contact game.

There's got to be a pretty big chance Ford or Farrell will play 10, and I'd sub in Zebo for Watson.

This thread is brutal and entertaining, but you're all criticising/defending a loss that hasn't happened yet. This is France (outside of a knock-out game against us) and they played well last week - there's almost zero per cent risk of them crying during the anthems, so you're fine. Wallabies...

I'm a bit surprised by the prevailing attitude to drugs expressed above, since normally I find this forum to be quite liberal. I'm not sure there's any evidence that a drug like cocaine or marijuana is anywhere near as bad for users or their community as a drug like alcohol or tobacco...

The burnt steak bit was less of a recommendation, and more of a sad but honest reflection of reality.

That's a great line - mate I'm stealing that.

I wasn't really commenting on the viability of a merged team, but I will note that while Australian and Kiwi barbecues have some substantive differences (prawns v whitebait/venison) they are both high quality and revolve around the same snag/shish-kebab/lamb-chop core. A combined team should...