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Really like the look of this lineup. Glad that Perenara got the nod ahead of TKB, but would have liked to see Barrett start ahead of Cruden.
This sort of lineup may be good enough to grant GOAT's wish to "Send them home sour".
Excellent question. Perhaps there's grounds if you were unable to perform your normal day job due to post-concussion issues. How far do you drill down though-back to the guy whose played club rugby all his life, but never represented at any level? Or just at representative level only?
I believe that the settlement was declined by a judge in January as she considered it wasn't enough (USD 765 million)
A class action suit in Rugby would shake it to the very core (such a cliche, sorry). As per your reasoning above, perhaps any suit should be directly with the sport's governing...
While not rugby, NFL legend Dan Marino is suing the NFL over concussions:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/03/us/dan-marino-concussion-lawsuit/
The concussion issue is not going to be swept quietly under the rug. This article today from Canada highlights the issues parents have with potential...
Gotta be a wind-up surely? He's played against a lot of them hasn't he?
The twitterverse was aghast naturally, but only seems to have been reported in the Guardian, nothing in the Times or Telegraph. Hasn't even made the NZ Herald.
Edit: Found this later in the day-In perhaps the strongest...
No argument there Qwerty. His Barbarians game against the Poms last weekend was an absolute shocker, shit passing, turnovers, poor kicking etc etc.
He'd struggle to make an ITM team at the moment, and has my show of getting a soup gig.
Gotta feel for Luatua, but since Kaino returned, Luatua's form has been all over the place, looking like a complete lack of confidence. No doubt he'll be first cab off the rank should any loosies get injured (please God leave Whitelock to do the washing up for his mum's sunday dinners, plenty of...