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I don't spend a lot of time in art galleries other than occasionally sheltering from the rain there but I am reliably told that if you stand too close to a painting you cannot understand it. So I am mightily reassured, spooony, to be informed that from a distance of 11,000 kms you can "see...

LG, it takes a little bit of fiddling but if you go to http://superrugbyfantasy.foxsports.com.au/ you can register a username. Then you can log in and go to http://superrugbyfantasy.foxsports.com.au/squad-selection/ where you can find individual player stats. I haven't been able to find a...

For each of the players, DPK, I have used the Fox Sports Fantasy stats on tackles and missed tackles summed over each of the seasons they have played. Those stats don't discriminate between positions. By the way Adam Ashley Cooper has missed 26.5% of his Super tackles so we'd better start...

So the idea is to drop the player who has missed just 9.6% of his tackles in his Super career. That would leave the halves and centres looking like this: 9 Pretorius has missed 36.7% of his tackles in Super matches. 10 Halangahu has missed 22.4%. 12 Barnes has missed 19.2%. 13 Horne has...

You've got some front, biggsy, I'll give you that. Just two pages back when you were slagging Tom Carter and calling him "a tool" you ended by saying: "And didn't like him in the Wallabies as well..." After Inside Shoulder asked you when Carter had played for the Wallabies you replied: "Your...

This is a fairly outrageous misrepresentation, Brumbies Guy, particularly as the purpose of your post was specifically to attack Tom Carter. The Fox Sports Fantasy tackle stats for each of the players you mention on Saturday night are: Carter made seven tackles; missed one. Horne made eight...

It always intrigues me that in a game such as this so much focus of post-game comments is given to the last significant play. In my opinion the principal reason why the Waratahs did not have this one safely locked away long before the 80th minute was the dumbness of our forwards in giving away...

spooony, who would have thought that John O'Neill would find his kindred spirit in the Republic? The sentiment, "when you give them time to build a team they normally end in success" could have been a pronouncement from our glorious leader himself. When he announced last August that Robbie...

Hasn't this thread gone for a wander? Maybe bigtoughguy has a point.

On last year's form it's by no means certain that Genia was the best half back in Australia let alone the world.

I'm sure that warathjesus will be good for "a few drinks before the game on Saturday". We just don't know with whom. He might be sharing a hip flask with Foles to steady the nerves.

I presume, LG, that you have confused me with JR Wood, which is a name I have rarely used. If it was indeed me, and it is so long ago that I have no recollection of it, you will notice that the bounder I was shaking hands with - and I think that PB Colquhoun more than merits that description -...

I can't speak for all the other geries on site but I don't mind that at all. It would be a bloody sight more interesting than watching fools in blow up suits make idiots of themselves.

Neat pun. I think it derived from his Ph D thesis, LG. That's the kiss of death for any book.

According to Thomas Hickie's book, A Sense of Union: A History of the Sydney University Football Club, both JA Brodie and CL Tange were also from the Sydney University Club.

I don't know whether Harold Mitchell and his mates have tumbled yet, FiveStar, but owning a professional sporting team is by definition "an unsustainable exercise".

I presume your admonition to qwerty is somewhat tongue in cheek, LG. Just scanning posts above the chain of digression appears to be: Gnostic - Blue - LG - qwerty - LG

I'm not persuaded that John G Mulford did much research on the issue, Lindommer, and sceptical about what light "the marvellous Australian Rugby Archives" would have thrown on it. In his 300 page book, Guardians of the Game: The History of the New South Wales Rugby Union 1874-2004, he devotes...

I don't think that your criticism of the 'Tahs is warranted, Bowside. We mightn't have "a bunch of islander kids doing a impromptu flashmob dance in queen street mall", but we have something much more grand planned, something guaranteed to gain international attention and a lot of exposure...