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I understand the impact he and Eloff bring from the bench but I'm starting to get frustrated with big Sammy getting every start ahead of Pone. I think it's important (for both us and the Wallabies) for him to start getting 45-55 minutes into his legs instead of 25-30. Otherwise a team I'm...

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Rumours that the board, while happy to have him on signed, sealed and delivered, are not particularly happy with the unilateral manner in which the approach was made.

Based on 15 years of watching 6 Nations the next morning: yes, it's very, very unreasonable :(

Cabous & Angelo are effectively project players: depending on fitness of others may end up playing in the majority of remaining games this season, Cabous in particular has been one of the Rebels best performers over the previous 3 seasons. Cardall is on an injury cover contract for Rob Leota...

To my understanding, it only works because the AFL, the players union and the clubs work very carefully to ensure edge case that may result in a legal challenge result in favourable outcomes for the players. Do you honestly believe the draft would be around (at least, with a similar size and...

Sure, if you want to use deliberately incendiary language, or we were talking about someone like the Aus U20s coach, or someone on the Waratahs paybook. If we're talking about the Second XV coach at St Kevins or a board member at Sunnybank, as I'm suggesting, it implies a level of betrayal that...

I'm way way too Millennial brained for that sort of shit. The formal scouting is almost certainly based 90% within Scotland itself: tape is tape regardless of where you get it from and when you watch it, that can be done by people within the formal system. The folks within Aus/NZ etc. are much...

Realistically I think a lot of people are wanting/looking at is more aligned with the following: https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/1b47c74a7d44a9b5/original/Regulations-on-the-Status-and-Transfer-of-Players-March-2022.pdf...

Transfer fees already happen with some (albeit infrequent) regularity, mostly small amounts for players struggling for gametime or looking to move on in the upcoming 6-9 months and achieve an early release. It, however, comes from Clubs/Unions acquiring CONTRACTED players from other entities.

Maybe things have changed since COVID, but £125k doesn't sound like a significant investment to me. Not that it's not in the individual sense for the player, but my last recollection is that when you removed the big SRU contracts and the promoted academy players the average salary for...

Moving the forum into the 2010s, I like it.

Sean Lamont was strongly rumoured to have failed a baseline test with Glasgow during one of his later preseasons. Having no idea how tests work specifically, whether that's accurate or a mild exaggeration, it says a lot about what you can expect Pro players are doing.

He's an interesting one: I've loved what Sammy has done, especially in the Glasgow jersey and 19/20, but by 21/22 it felt like his caps were coming from a desire to keep the structure in place for Cam Redpath to slot back in when ready alongside Harris: and now of course Huwipulotu has come over...

The 2018 and 2019 squads should have played finals with the talent that we had on the books following the dropping of the Force, and the combination of not doing so while struggling to onboard younger talent set us back almost as much as Totalitarian Tony did. I would hope that priority is...

How frustrating is it having too much of a good thing for once! Realistically, I think trying to retain all of Talakai, Eloff, Pone and Tupou will leave us too stretched in other areas. As much as I love him, I think the right thing for the club and him would be to find another Aus Franchise...

English media and @rodha in 3... 2... 1...

He had a pretty late start to a pro career didn't he? 24, 25 by the time he got his first Brumbies deal & caps? Disappointing, but don't blame the man for maximising the health of his body and earning potential.

He was in the green bibs during the move from the B changing rooms to the A changing rooms last night and looked to be moving relatively freely.

On some level I think the Shamateur clubs never gave up on wanting to be integrated with the English divisions.