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David was quite upset as he'd just found out he had a hand in the murder of 15 frogs

3. Genia 2. Pocock 1. TK

Watching bits and pieces of the match before I go out but it looks like Naivalu put on a bit of a "how to defend an overlap as a wing" masterclass in Paris despite the missed tackle stats. Funny enough he was doing pretty much the exact opposite of what we've been seeing Speight do the last few...

The same applies to Kerevi, if not more so. I'm equally happy to see TK back in 13 though because his defense is quite a bit better than Samu's right now - really nice to have that steadying presence in the seam.

For me it's not even about beaten pack vs. dominant pack - it's about what happens when we come up against a side that's actually going to use effective territorial kicking in between the 22m lines and will pressure us much harder on exits from our own 22. None of our kickers really had to deal...

It's very frustrating because I personally know several guys who have done incredibly good work at Club/University level here who are either completely ignored by USAR for political reasons or can't seem to get a gig beyond working with the U-20's. Not sure if USAR is feeling particularly...

Fuck yes Ireland!!!! On the darker side of things it feels like the USA v. NZ Maori was a testament to the failure of the Mitchell experiment. Kicking is as woeful as ever, scrum has gone backwards since he was appointed, ruck accuracy has gone backwards, handling is as frustrating as ever...

Is Raynal that new, god-awful French ref?

Attack really clicking against this Welsh defense - Foley looking great on attack. Hodge showing some burst onto the ball that we haven't really seen from him much at this level.

The 100m doesn't really have a place in measuring a rugby player's abilities. Speed at any distance over 40m is just going to be irrelevant in the vast majority of match situations a play is going to find themselves in. JOC (James O'Connor) is the same kid who beat Billy Slater in a 40m dash without any issues...

Your memory may be a bit cloudy because JOC (James O'Connor) is very fast. There was never much between him and the gas guys, there still isn't. (Embedding on here doesn't work with time stamps but check out 1:17 and 2:20) Should have been one of the all-time greats and the most capped player of his...

Perese/Kerevi/Cooper/Frisby/Tupou would be a fucking nightmare to contain in a 10's match. Looking forward to it! Hopefully I can dig up a stream somewhere. Frisby's playstyle and pace should make him a real asset in a 10's match.

Build a time machine and go back to 1907, burn down the Bateman's Hotel and make sure everyone inside dies.

He's said himself he thinks that his chronic knee issues relate back to his obsessive weightlifting earlier in life, where he may have pushed past the point of using proper form one too many times. Going back a couple of posts, getting Beale back in Australia is probably one of the best things...

I edited my post to match that aspect of yours. The lack of other contact sports is an enormous difference. Right now Australian rugby and the Wallabies are on life support and there are merits to both a top-end injection to try and resuscitate that top-end product for long enough that it...

They also have far less competition from other winter sports for that chunk of their much larger, and quite affluent population. Revenue is always going to come from the top and will always need to be invested at various levels of the game from Test all the way down to U-7's Flag Rugby in a...

Australian rugby lives and dies with the Wallabies product in today's age. Everything else is ancillary to the Wallabies because the Wallabies are what puts food on the table. How that food is distributed is definitely something that needs to be worked on. To extend the metaphor - the right...

Uh, yeah - I am 100% sure they have. Most of those guys were in some way involved at the executive level in large businesses before they did the ARU thing, they're not stupid or bad at business. Union just isn't a very popular sport and the Wallabies product is in the shitter right now.

And they'd probably be told to get fucked

Yeah, no.