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Come down and play for Sydney Irish, a lot of our players are based in Paddington and we'll be training in Coogee. We'll have 3 grades next year and despite the name we have a fair few Australians blokes playing, in fact our inaugural club man of the year is an Aussie bloke.

I still think we'll need to shop overseas to get a quality back up to Taf, as impressive as Roach, albeit at openside, and some of the other Shute Shield hookers have been I'm not sure any of them are at the standard we'd expect of a team with Super Rugby title ambitions.

IRFU Head Honcho Phil Browne has finally gone public on the whole issue: Browne: Compromise vital in Euro stand-off http://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/browne-compromise-vital-in-euro-standoff-29573382.html

Gerry Thornley, who is usually a reliable source, has quotes saying that the Celts and Italians won't join any new competition and it hints towards the IRB blocking any new tournament. http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/celtic-and-italian-clubs-won-t-join-any-new-competition-1.1524095 I'm...

The English and French, the IRB or the IRFU? I did reference 3 ballsy calls! My problems with the English clubs very public negotiating line are 3 fold: 1-The Rabo teams rest their players and they are fresh for Heineken games: Ireland has a player management systems where front line...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/24038523 Heineken Cup: English & French clubs to set up new competition Hopefully this is just more of the Premier Rugby nonsense that has been spouted for months by Mark McCaffery, the English in public are saying it isn't fair that those pesky Celts...

Great win for Sydney Irish yesterday over Redfield. The lads took an early lead and were up at half time, then 3 tries in quick succession from Redfield had them leading 31-19. An Irish intercept stopped the tide and was the turing point. From then on the Irish pack then got a second wind from...

Heineken Cup Aussies: Leinster MOC Castres Ma'afu Toulon Mitchell Giteau Exeter Mumm Ben White Clermont James Scarlets Jake Ball Ulster Sean Doyle Leicester Salvi Treviso Brendan Williams Perpignan Justin Purll Edinburgh Ollie Atkins Gloucester Edmonds

Not so much working as logging in from home drunk during the Leinster match to push a button :D From what I remember there isn't a huge amount of Aussies this year. May I suggest you barrack for Leinster Matt O'Connor formerly of the Ponies staff is the head coach and has been a good home for...

I have a list but it is on my work computer, I'll put it on here tomorrow for you

Anything that Alex Cordisiero isn't a fan of surely means that the rules are forcing props to scrummage straight and illegals like himself will finally be made to make the contest legal. To be honest if I was Mark Anscombe I'd be looking to a 10: Olding, 12: Marshall 13: Payne combo as a...

Heard very good things about Martin Moore, he is going to get plenty of opportunities this year lets hope he can make the step up. I'm a bit disappointed that MOC has gone straight back to Boss/Reddan I was looking forward to seeing Cooney or McGrath get a chance here. Ulster are going to be...

As an outside back for Montpellier he would have spent the majority of his time chasing box kicks, expansive rugby wasn't really their forte over the past few years. 16 tries in 80 games for them isn't a great return for a winger either

Apparently the Leinster and Munster games are live on the Setanta website, if games aren't shown live on the TV channel they'll be streamed on the website. Well according to the OLSC.

The Mrs isn't impressed with my Saturday, starting with the Ireland Sweden game get 430am on Saturday, followed by Leinster game which is on delayed Setanta coverage, then she'll be driving me out to the Sydney Irish Grand Final. Topped off by an evening in the pub taking in the Rugby...

First couple of rounds of the league are usually a write off for Munster and Leinster. Their high profile internationals are still in pre season and both sides are down on skill and experience. I think Leinster have won one opening day game. Looking forward to seeing how a number of youngsters...

Izzy to 15 and Quade to 10 gives the Qantas Hahn Super Dry Castrol Swiss Kooga Wallabies a more attacking threat with ball in hand. Hopefully Izzy isn't afraid to bring his kicking game into play, didn't take responsibility often enough for the Tahs. Here's hoping for the Honey Badger to...

Sydney Irish made the Div 5 Grand Final, up against Redfield at Macquarie Uni on Saturday. Should be a massive occasion, they've got the better of us the past couple of times but they've all been close games. No matter what the result its been a cracking first year for the lads

Loti Taquiri is signing a short term deal with Leinster this week according to a few journos back in Ireland

I think that Northampton are trying to lay down a marker ahead of their Heino games with Leinster, I'm not sure Jim Mallinder realised that none of those blokes will be lining out in the big leagues