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It's astonishing how ill-informed rugby journos in this town really are. Jamie Pandaram, lured across from the Herald to the Terror because he was so impressed by Rupert's straight-faced enunciation of News Ltd's Charter of Ethical Journalistic Standards, is no exception. When they don't know...

It's a wonder the Rats don't have to buy a permit from the Council to hold the raffles. .

Now there's a smokey; right out of left field; who would have thought? Old Scoop has to have a snout in the Wallabies camp. .

It's got to be a Peninsula thing. .

In these days of indoor toilets it's probably not all that relevant but the phrase with which I'm familiar was "piss or get off the pot". Having an Edgar and then slipping the pot back under the bed wouldn't make for a very restful sleep if you get my drift. .

That says it all. In Australia at least, the only intellectually demanding code of football administered by people who are way dumber than those who run the other codes. What a way to display the emerging stars of your sport. .

wj, there's something that's been troubling me but I've been much too polite to ask. In that photo, are you sitting on Foley's lap? .

Bowral Rugby Club. That brings back memories. Going back over 30 years ago, Bowral made their first ever 1st Grade IDRU Grand Final which was played at the Dapto greyhound track. I think their coach at the time was Steve Streeter although I may be defaming him. Anyway whoever the coach at the...

RR, as far as I'm aware our political bodies in New South Wales aren't influenced by party politics when it comes to funding rugby clubs, so we don't have a problem with changes of government. We have absolute consistency which is great for budgetting. Both sides, Labor or Liberal/Nationals...

Now is not the appropriate time to attempt to answer that, RH.

Yes, Braveheart, he's really let himself down big time this season. Remember how James O'Connor made him look stupid in Round 2 - or was that the other way round? One of them ran in 2 tries. And his defence! It's pathetic compared to the other Waratahs midfield backs. Look at the comparatives on...

Michael Cheika's name invariably gets mentioned in connection with any potential vacancy at an Australian franchise and also from time to time in relation to the Wallabies' top job. The general consensus seems to be that if he applied anywhere he would be automatically appointed and that he...

In men's rugby historically we have experienced the reverse situation where Islander boys, Aboriginals and others from less privileged backgrounds often didn't "feel welcome in a team where [the products of "conservative private" boys "schools"] often [spoke] another language to each other"...

Thanks for the updates, Bardon. A very close game but I'd have expected nothing less as they are both MyoQuip users.

Good luck with your promotion, Ryan. I hope they pack the joint.

I am a little bemused as to how a decision by the IRB to distribute more money to member unions can be interpreted as a personal triumph for JO'N. Did he have to arm-twist other nations to support his very clever idea?

Fortunately the copyright for both Wordsworth's poetry and Shakespeare's plays has lapsed, daz. .

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!--Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and IRB, took at once The attraction of a country in romance with noble John! Those of us privileged to have lived through both manifestations of...

It suggests that he was either game or oblivious to abuse. A Viking refereeing a Shamrocks game would be subject to a relentless series of appraisals of his character and speculation as to his parentage from the sidelines. .

Wreckless, the IDRU boys certainly hang around. Woodsy I remember quite well while Bert and I go back to the late '60s when I was a student at Wollongong University College and he was in admin there. That was before the Shamrocks started up. .