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UJ, Cox brothers, Shannon Walker - I see your argument!

Bring back the Trans Tasman U19 competition. QLD won the last competition in 2007.

The big improvement in th comp this year has been the standard of coaches. Easts and GPS made the off season player recruiting coups, mainly at the expense if the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast, but the injection of quality coaches into Wests, Souths, Brothers and Sunnybank have ensured the comp...

This weekend could define the Final 4. Souths can still make the 4 if they win their remaining games so a win over Easts is imperative. If Sunnybank beat Brothers it will make like very difficult for GPS. On the flip side if both results above occurred then GPS would need to beat Easts to stay...

Curtis Browning showed today he is the natural replacement for Higgenbottham. Sign him tomorrow Qld!

Team Sheets http://www.redsrugby.com.au/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=nCGEfh6i8iU%3d&tabid=533. And I thought that used to happen when Tempo, Jim Kenny and Knuckles coached Qld.

Thierry, If Sunnybank rely on their cheque book, why do all the import players from other states play for other clubs - Faainga x 2, Mike Harris, Radike Samo, Beau Robinson, McDuling not mention players such as Andrew Walker, Adam Byrne, Laurie Weeks etc from the past. Its amazing how people...

I see that Wests have withdrawn from the Colts 1 competition. Apart from the implications for Wests it is interesting to note the decline in numbers of players at Under 19 level in Queensland over the last few years. I know that playing numbers for kids under the age of 9 are increasing however...

Easts went non-contested in 3rd Grade and 2nd Grade for the whole game today after putting out quite a competent 4th Grade front row. Real pity to see props turn up for a game to push for selection in higher grades and be denied their opportunity.

http://www.irb.com/newsmedia/mediazone/pressrelease/newsid=2063233.html#gosper+appointed+irb+chief+executive

Bruce, an almost identical model was developed in 2008 by some key clubs in Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane. It lost energy after a poorly written article by a journalist in the Australian that caused a loss of trust within the group. The then ARU Chairman had seen the proposal and was supportive...

Player retention is more difficult than recruitment. Most players of ability are looking to maximize their talent for a financial return, and for the most part this can only be done overseas as most players in Australia that are signed are already part of the Academy. The nature of the Academy...

http://twf.com.au/showthread.php?t=9006 Holmes was the only one to go and he didn't play any games for the Wallabies in 2007. I would think 7 established current Wallabies such as Souths in 1992 or Uni who won in 1989 with 8 Wallabies would be stacked. Last year's Sunnybank team were better on...

Ben Lucas was untouchable but I don't recall any Sunnybank players going to the RWC in France as part of he 30 man squad immediately after the GF. No Wallabies and the only Reds were Holmes, Avei, Blake, Berry and Veratau. Of course there were household names like Kriukelis, Tronc, Killen...

Anae is outstanding and it is a joke to even mention Murphy in the same breath as him. The last time they were in the same scrum Murphy was going backwards at a great rate of knots. The fact that he can play both loose head and hooker makes him very valuable also.

1979 for a tight contest or 2007 for dominant brilliance. The rest fall into partisan 2nd rate obscurity.

Would normally agree with you Penguin (especially as it will favor the Reds) but the issue in Super XV is that not every team plays every other team or even the same teams as the teams in their conference. Check out the teams the Brumbies have avoided playing this year. No perfect method in this...

This show the stupidity of th late start to the season. The finish date is fine but no clubs asked for such a late start. With the majority of the competition ring for amateur players who are young and often students there should be an earlier start with more byes that at worst cater for wet...

There are some very simple things we could do which may actually be revenue positive but more importantly create tangible content and structure within the game. The easiest one would to be to run a national conference every year after the Spring Tour finishes. It could be in a different venue...

http://www.grandprixentertainment.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&catid=25&Itemid=280 This story gets stranger and stranger. Will we see another SOO in the USA?? No more movement or news on the Rugby 7s front????