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Ignacio looks to have tighter shorts than Lawrie Weeks. The best way to tell them apart is to recognise that the leg seams of Ignacio's shorts appear to be subjected to pressure well in excess of design load whereas Lawrie is yet to finish a home match this season without feeling an icy blast...

I'm in your debt, Bowside. This bloke's one liners are pure poetry. I'm not just a follower: I'm a believer. .

Twitter is actually a challenge. Trying to get an idea into 140 characters calls for a very different approach to operating without word limits. When I write a longer post here I try to work at least 5 or 6 cutting or absurd ideas into it. Usually I don't bother posting if I can only think of...

Moses, is the program you are using for the forum sufficiently robust that we can attribute our sources via footnotes and bibliography? Apologies for the plagiarism, cyclo. But as the saying goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Digressing a la LG, I have noted you tweeting in...

Our international level players are either playing or preparing to play almost year round. They do not have the opportunity to enjoy an off-season to repair and rehabilitate their bodies or to do the all-important work of restoring or building strength. This means that basic heavy strength work...

"My great grandfather was from Whitburn so I know a lot of Scots." That is classic Burgo who has developed the non sequitur into an art form. There was informed speculation last year that the reason Robbie refused to pick him in the run on team was that he suspected Burgo's weird interviews...

I notice you use the qualifier "completely", Joe, which gives you some sort of out. The only way it might make any sort of weird sense is if we're prepared to write off 2012, 2013 and 2014 in order to prepare for a tournament in 2015 where we may have some limited competence in playing Northern...

You are being far too kind to Scoop, TBR. Far from catching up he has lost sight of the peloton and is reduced to asking Gauloise smoking rustics which way they went. Someone should tell Scoop about the internet; then he wouldn't have to rely on phone calls from St Leonards pushing the line...

I'd be reasonably confident that neither Benn Robinson, Salesi Ma'afu nor Lawrie Weeks did, but don't quote me on that.

Welcome aboard, HGH. Always a pleasure to welcome a new member. Feel free to express your opinions and don't hold back because you've just started posting. You'll soon make friends here. Are you an Easts supporter?

There seems to be a logical disconnect here, Schadenfreude. Either way, I hope for the sake of Australian rugby that what you suggested is correct, although I think that our franchises struggle to stay solvent and don't have much capacity to fund higher salaries..

PB, about a week ago I received an email thanking me for forwarding the material you sent on. He was very appreciative.

I would like to think you are right, Schadenfreude, about the salary cap being raised but "my sources" tell me the ARU is trying to take the opposite approach. Time will tell.

To save members wasting valuable minutes of their lives by clicking on the link I’ve decided to pick out the really relevant bits from Bret Harris’s article in The Australian: There’s no way of letting you down gently, Bret. Now that you’ve explained it all it’s crystal clear that it’s an...

My perception is that Khoder Nasser is a very shrewd operator who generates huge amounts of publicity and therefore income for his clients. I doubt he loses much sleep over not being loved or admired by the average punter.

Berrick didn't play against the Reds and Rebels but he played at 12 against the Highlanders, qwerty. I also thought our forwards were beaten in the contact zone against the Sharks, LG. We had lots of zero or negative metres at the gain line. This has to improve dramatically if we are to be...

My considered opinion is that Khoder Nasser has been sparring with his client without wearing headgear. .

This is a most fascinating discussion initiated for some reason best known to himself by a South African living in Brisbane. However he has managed to focus attention on one of the really fundamental philosophical issues in rugby, which is, in comparing the current, i.e., at the present time...

Thank you for sharing that with us, nicobinho, and particularly for posting it in this thread. Obviously you must feel that at least one of our members will be interested in the information. Presumably this also means that their competition has already started. .