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Mate, it's the myth of the supreme NRL back. Will Chambers played origin this year, they can't all be that good.

This is what I keep hearing from league fans - all this "optimal product" bullshit. Union is a participation game - you can see that in the way it organically grows on college campuses in the US, without that translating into some enormous viewer base. It's designed to be played, not just stuck...

When I print this page and get it framed in honour of my life's greatest achievement, I'm going to crop your comment out.

I know about 8 words of french, and weirdly I can translate that (roughly): Mon aeroglisseur est plein de anguilles. No-one correct me, this is my linguistic peak.

I'm firmly of the opinion that the best way to win large swathes of women over to rugby is to show them videos of footy players speaking perfect french.

I'm a small flanker in the body of a fat winger.

From the sounds of things though, you just want to run rugby league in rugby union's existing competitions. Which isn't really re-unification. It's not as though fans are obliged to keep supporting a competition. If the Top 14 in France started playing league (or whatever nearly-league you're...

Re-unification talk bugs me. They're different sports. Might as well merge netball and basketball.

Ugh, that's not as good. Anyway, baby steps.

I don't know about that. It has pretty significant growth potential in New Zealand - I worry about the effect on New Zealand rugby of a second (or eventually third) NRL team. The poaching of junior talent by Australian NRL teams is already pretty extraordinary.

Re: Sexton - it's like everyone has forgotten the Lions series.

I like Savea, but that's ridiculous.

Growden is expanding his back-room political rugby journalism empire to encompass a group of people who might be, if possible, even less interested than us: http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/798323.html

He's an exceptional defender on the wing. He played out there for the crusaders when he was starting and some of the tackles he pulled off were amazing. Doubt he'll offer too much on attack though. This one was from fly-half, but it's indicative of what I'm talking about:

June 2009, lost to France 22-27 in Dunedin. Remember that some of these players weren't the players then that they are now (e.g. Read, Nonu). Woodcock Hore Tialata Thorn Ross (!) Read Thompson Messam Cowan Donald (!) Masaga (!) Nonu Toeava Rokocoko Muliaina I feel like a bit of a dick...

I think there was a game where we picked Anthony Tuitavake and Rudi Wulf. That was pretty bad. Edit: Scott Hamilton may have been in the same side. All good players, but you know.

Parsons at hooker, Thrush in the row, no Kaino or Read, Slade on the wing. We wouldn't field this side against Argentina, and the Scots rolled them last week.

Nah I rate Sexton, he's pretty dominant. Put him in a black jersey and we'd be raving about him. I agree McCaw could be in there, he's been great this year.

I just don't get how he never got a run in the ABs. Remember that season where he just broke tackles for fun? 2011 I think? Guildford popping up everywhere with his crazy work-rate, Maitland bumping off defenders like they were nothing, Dagg casually pumping 50 metre clearances... that was a...

Rule numero uno is to just bet against teams from big markets (Australia and England in rugby; India and Australia in cricket), because uninformed loyalty-money from those markets artificially drives the opposition's price up. Best pay day I ever had was backing Scotland to beat Australia that...