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That's a great post SFR. Agree. A better understanding of the system would lead to less bitching amongst fans, and some comments in the following week would assist in educating us.

Not sure we should be chasing a guy who publicly whinges about his multi-million dollar contract days after signing it.

Horne out 1 week - he should have some more time to acclimatise to Perth. Beale apparently whiplashed by Steyn, but "not in doubt" at this stage. We'll see.

Interesting note about a quota for Super Rugby players per team, and that non-playing Wallabies will be allocated a team. Wonder how that will work out?

I wouldn't want to stop your bitching about everything to do with ARU, Bruce, but perhaps there will be a press release at 12pm, with a conference at 3pm. Presumably Fox already have the details and are preparing to release them at 12. It's not an unusual media strategy - give the journos 3 hr...

And I hope they have that big South African bloke running a few training sessions on running straight, drawing and passing. Beautiful skills for a man who attacks rucks like a rabid mongrel.

How many seasons have we seen our finals hopes drift away on the basis of too few bonus points? At least it looks like that won't be the issue this year.

Some good news for the Tahs, from Georgina Robinson's SMH article today: The Waratahs may be struggling to get bums on seats at home games, but they are wielding considerably more power in the television ratings, if the early indications are anything to go by. Fox Sports and Media Week figures...

If the Tahs can replicate the intensity of the Reds game, the Brumbies will to choose between kicking to the Tahs back 3 or running it in the face of a physical, smothering defence, neither being the easy option. But I'd anticipate the Brumbies will be able to produce a more effective kicking...

It's four years you can be on the ratings panel, BH81. We just finished with it. I don't have Foxtel but did my bit for FTA rugby where possible.

That is a surprise, especially going directly against the major sponsor. I suppose Volvo would have been warned about the possibility, but I'd be livid if I was controlling their sponsorship dollars.

What's the relationship between Volvo and Jeep in Australia? Is this a slip-up or just part of the marketing process?

Perhaps time to rehash a suggestion made by others here a couple of years ago: Put on a competition for fans to put together a 15 or 30 second ad for the Tahs, using whatever match footage they can find on Youtube, etc. The best one or two get remade into professional TV spots. Engages the fans...

More likely because the soccer media is the most excitable of the four. That's right, soccer media, I called your game soccer. Freak out.

The crowds at Homebush in previous seasons have generally been the biggest of the season. When the Tahs were pulling 45K to Homebush, people were whinging about how great the atmosphere would have been at the SFS with that crowd - but the SFS games weren't getting a crowd that size, so it's a...

Parramatta Stadium isn't going to be particularly interested in a Tahs match - it's full of Wanderers matches all summer and Eels all winter. Aside from the SFS, it must be the best used stadium in Sydney.

The Tahs will need to be pretty confident of excellent crowds at the SFS if they're going to forgo the guaranteed money from ANZ stadium.

Ha ha Ash, referring them to Wikipedia! Nailed it. No one could argue with a quick Photoshop job and a reference to Wikipedia. Good job Tahs Twitter, this week is finally looking up.

Meh, these arguments about changing the rules to create excitement leave me cold. Have you watched the State of Origin? Massive crowd, massive atmosphere, massive excitement even amongst many non-league fans, and yet the game itself is often an endless procession of one-out runs, hit-ups, kicks...

And further discourage excellence in goal-kicking.