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Not a good start to PWC's helping to 'define culture and strategy across the club' if getting rid of a foundation player with one year left is a demonstration of good culture...

That's fairly much how it is now anyway. U6-7 is two handed touch - must pass but no set number of passes. U8 is when tackling is introduced and is 10 a side, then it goes up to 12 a side and lineouts come in, then in U12 (roughly grade 7) it becomes 15 a side.

Totally agree - I read in their press release that they will have 20 of the best 100 players in the world today. If we assume that the 100 best players currently are mainly in the squads for the All Blacks, Ireland, England, Wallabies, and South Africa, with a handful outside that perhaps...

"and further discussions will take place with a private consortium to form an eighth team." - maybe that is the Hawaiian consortium?

Italy is the sort of game where Petaia would be likely to be blooded. Start him at 13 with Kerevi at 12 and To'omua at 10 - got to be better than Beale.

Wow, that's amazing numbers - is that accurate? Do you know what the standard is like?

It has NZ on the map as well, which I thought was not happening. On the main page it says 8 teams from 6 countries but then the infographic on the RR page says 6-8 teams so it seems some of it is still to be decided. Interesting that they talk about the investment in China and India starting...

That lineup looks good on paper but it also looks quite similar to what they had for a lot of this season - admittedly 9 was a musical chairs selection and Stewart only got to 10 later in the season but my question is (aside from as Reg mentioned the new coaching assistants of McKay and Ryan)...

McGahan has played fullback, and Campbell is a 15 as well isn't he? Do you think they are looking at Toua as an experienced 15 to bring on the likes of Campbell? My concern with McGahan is if he couldn't make it at the Blues during a period when they have been awful, was it poor coaching or...

I'm not keen on it, seems very short term thinking but who knows? Who would you have preferred they pick up Reg?

Looks like McGahan played a bit of fullback for North Harbour in the Mitre 10 comp so perhaps he is being looked at for 15 cover as well. Seemed to mainly be a bench player for the Blues but has an interesting history with the Reds being highlighted as a diver when chasing a kick against Kerevi...

Wasn't Tela part of the squad this season? I had a feeling he was part of it but barely got a look in.

McGahan was a schoolboy star in NZ who went to league, couldn't make it out of U20s so returned to rugby and had 12 games for the Blues who have struggled to find a good 10 for several years and they 'released' him. He then moved to Japan. Arguably he has more experience than Stewart but...