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Congratulations on a great win, Emus.

9-13 half time. 12-33 full time. Physical conditioning. But what would I know - I'm a "moron". .

As far as I am aware, and I'm in a reasonably good position to know, there would have been no representations from Sydney Uni with regard to getting its players into the Under 20 squad. In fact the Club's interests might have been better served in the opposite direction. When you have at least...

What an excellent initiative that is, Keithy. This is exactly why the Sydney Rugby Union was reconstituted. Half way through the competition and the format for Colts 3 is finalised, or at least I would hope so. I won't join you in wishing, "Good luck to the Comp organiser!" I would send a...

Godfrey, if there is one player who consistently maintains his position in the defensive line it is Carter. The only qualification to that is that this season he has often been moved, obviously under instruction, out to the wing to defend. What mental giant thought that was a good idea? As for...

I think people are worrying unnecessarily. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the 'Tahs' defence when they can afford to have the best defensive midfield player in the competition on the bench or even sitting in the stands. But hang on. He's been speared because of poor defence. Didn't you...

Thank you, barbarian. I now have Rule 6: 6. Play the ball not the man. Personal comments will be deleted and you'll get a card or ban. This also applies to comments about players, coaches and other public figures. Feel free to criticize their play and decisions with reasoning, but not slander...

barbarian, would you be so kind as to direct me to Rule 6, and indeed all of the other rules of the forum? I can't find them. I am surprised that the Rules have such a degree of specificity that one of them proscribes "unnecessarily speculative" discussion. I frequently stray into speculation...

You are quite right, TBH. The S & Cs have a lot of relevant metrics on players such as skin folds, vertical jump, 10 and 40m sprint time, beep test or yo-yos. In addition players are weighed before and after games which apparently yields useful information as to appropriate training loads. There...

Thank you, PB, for posting that photo and information about Jean-Luc. I wil pass it on to Willi senior. In return here is a photo of Willi junior playing 1st Grade for Sydney Uni last year:That's Willi with the ball. Perhaps you recognise the No. 5 backing him up. You should. He's one that got...

I don't know the particular player to whom you are referring, Antony, so I can't comment on him. The training system I have been describing does not necessarily encompass every player in the club although almost all are influenced by it. In the last off-season there were over 100 players, Grade...

Antony and TBH, you are both on the right track with regard to the Sydney Uni approach to training. My own thinking on physical conditioning for rugby was fundamentally influenced by a post which a South African, Nick Tatalias, put on the long discontinued IRB Forums in 2005. I wrote an article...

Young Merriman has been switched between 9 and 10 for Uni Colts, LG. He looks to me to have a bigger future at half back and he told me that is where he prefers to play.

We tend to see what we choose to see, dangerousdave. Was this the Sydney Uni player looking "jealously at [your] bar loaded with ~150kg for deadlifts and [saying] gee that's a lot of weight"? That's Jono Jenkins doing 3 reps of Romanian dead lifts with 200kg in exemplary style. And...

I doubt they ever did lifts like this in the Manning Bar, IS: That's 19-year-old Eddie Burrett doing 5 reps bench press with 150kg. At a height of 199cm he has to shunt the bar a long way. The lad has exceptional athletic capacity. He weighs 111kg but has only 50mm skin folds. He runs 10m...

It might not really belong in this thread but I believe that rules are there to be ignored - moderators likewise. Check out this great blog: imsorrywhatnow: I'm sorry what now? It's written by our very own Cat_A (@Catriona_A). She's only just started writing it but it should soon attract...

I can fully understand why Jamie Pandaram would not have personally come to this forum to raise his objections to being misrepresented. I can also understand why people object to being the subject of satire - which is not to say that I intend to discontinue practising the craft. Fortunately most...

Yes, Jack, it certainly was eye opening. Like a freestyle, heavy duty circuit routine. You are one of the few who are aware there is a ground breaking experiment in physical conditioning being conducted at the Sydney Uni gym. I think there is abundant evidence by now that it produces...

It's great to see passionate argument between the women on the relative merits of 15s and 7s. Just to declare an interest, my involvement is very much with the main game. .

The ideal individual in my opinion to provide the sort of driving leadership that the Waratahs desperately need would be Alan Williamson, and preferably in an executive rather than non-executive capacity. Ex-President of Eastern Suburbs; ex-member of the NSWRU Board; a CEO who has achieved...