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I found Uruguay and Argentina to have a lot in common - other than Uruguay's bizarre love of offal. What's the deal with that? A combined team could never work until they agree on whether a barbecue should exclusively consist of entrails.

Thanks for the background Lee, although I'm genuinely upset that it wasn't just Jono Gibbes saying it accidentally. I'll fossick about for a new quote, and will try to resist the urge to use "Darryl Gibson has been quite magnificent coming inside Andrew Mehrtens, and I'm looking forward to...

That was the most enjoyable game I've attended since the Tahs v Crusaders final - I would give anything to have atmosphere like that at any sports event in Australia (maybe the AFL gives it a nudge - but AFL is kind of shit so it doesn't count). I popped up a video of one of the Scottish tries...

I live in Sydney, so I'm a reasonably enthusiastic Wallabies fan as my second team. I'm a keen follower of the Tahs and it eventually started to feel ridiculous switching on the hatred when they pulled on a different jersey. Unless I'm sitting next to someone particularly big, in which case...

Total random note, but I'm heading along to this. That's all - go about your business.

There's some kind of shitfight going on between Pro Rugby in the US and the Canadian Rugby Union - has anyone got a take on that?

I'm based in Amsterdam for the next few months for work, and I've been surprised at the presence of rugby here. I've been here for all of four days and I've already met three players, including a couple of teenagers on the tram who said that they're in the national youth development squad, and...

This is awesome: http://thespinoff.co.nz/sports/14-06-2016/we-found-the-usain-bolt-of-world-rugby-and-he-is-a-lowly-touch-judge/#.V19UH1ncCMc.twitter

That was a ripper of a match. Fitness and depth won out in the end, but there was a while there when the guys started to look pretty rattled. And what to do about Naholo...

I don't watch much/any AFL, so can't comment there. I will say though that I think the league guys are miles ahead of cricket, and most rugby commentators. You at least get the sense that the league team watches a lot of league - they know all the players and can make a couple of...

At no point in this thread did anyone say that.

Good point. I don't watch any AFL on 7, but what is their commentary team like?

That article reminds me of the Geoff Lemon piece on the Channel 9 cricket commentary team. It's hands down the best article on Australian sport I've ever read: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/feb/13/channel-nine-destroying-cricket-legacy

Anyone who enjoyed that is mad. I don't even mind league, but that made me want to claw my eyes out.

I meant his use of the phrase 'spine-tingling' to describe a passage of play involving consecutive knock-ons. Have a read of the article, it's pretty savage.

Fox Sports had their resident San Francisco-based Hayne-tracker do a write-up on Origin. It is (a) pretty brutal reading, and (b) contains an observation about Phil Gould's commentary that I think most of us can get on board with. "Spine-tingling"...

So average Australian viewer numbers and crowds are both up, despite a drop in Sydney crowds? That's a bit surprising, but good.

That's just for the first test. $7 in a two horse race is crazy.

That's a real shame.

Sportsbet is paying $7 on Wales. I don't think they're going to win, but in the post-Richie/Dan/Nonu/Smith/Woodcock era they're definitely not that bad an underdog.