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If Fox is correct, Moses is going to need to buy some extra bandwidth for this site...'cos the forum is going to melt down. Bruce Ross, avert your eyes...

I've seen that the Balmain v Petersham curtain-raiser kicks off at 6pm. Is that right? This must mean a change to the previous policy that the ground had to be free for 60 or 90 min before a Super Rugby game. Is it a full game ? An 80 min game wouldn't be done by 7.40. But great to have a...

Lindo, the hamstring is a tendon - it goes from muscle to bone. Ligaments go from bone to bone.

If there was any chance he was coming to the Tahs, d'you not think it would have leaked from half a dozen sources by now? In fact, could any Australian franchise have kept this under wraps? But I can't imagine he'd go league either. Could it just be a beat-up to improve his negotiations in France?

The T20 Big Bash League this year turned state cricket into the biggest thing on TV (pay TV at least), with marquee overseas and star retired Australian players. Is there wisdom in just opening the floodgates to overseas marquee players to give Super Rugby a bit of a jolt - and perhaps turn it...

Professional sport is thick with restraints of trade - drafts and salary caps, etc. But structured in such a way as to keep them out of court.

And how long will the other two quarters be?

I've always thought that co-captains or large leadeship groups just tended to hand more power to the coach, who becomes the unquestioned top guy if the player authority is splintered. Though it doesn't seem to me that Foley would be the sort of guy to need to assert his authority in that way...

The juniors club I'm involved with ran a "Come n Try" session early Feb last year, at rego time, and it was very successful, especially amongst the youngest age groups, leading to a big increase in the number of those teams for that season. It's a simple formula - widely advertised in the local...

And we're back to rugby league again... But to reply to the original post, I think the spate of off-field incidents that happens around this time of year probably reflects the fact that the life of a professional sportsman is often really, really boring, and no more so than during pre-season...

He'll be expelled from the coaches' union with that kind of loose talk.

Paarl, perhaps you haven't watched too much NRL from Australia. 90% of tries get referred to the TMO, who then agonises over whether players were onside, whether an attacking player touched the ball forward when leaping to catch a kick, with about 4 pairs of hands all around the ball, whether...

Quoted by FatProp in the Barbarians game thread was this chart: Most Missed Tackles 1. Sarel Pretorius (Cheetahs) 48 2. Nick Phipps (Rebels) 46 making 172 3. Ashley Johnson (Cheetahs) 44 4. Danny Cipriani (Rebels) 42 4. Quade Cooper (Reds) 42 6. Cooper Vuna (Rebels) 41 6. Nasi Manu...

With Rocky as your captain, WJ?

Ordering players from one state to another won't do anything to make Australian rugby more attractive for the players, compared to overseas offers. And who do you trust at the ARU to make the right call on moving players about? Leave it up to the players - as long as they are keen to...

Agree, Nusadan. The 2001 tour was a bit quiet in its build-up (I suspect because everyone thought we'd give the Lions a shellacking), and then when it started, and was so competitive, it caught everyone's attention but was suddenly over within a fortnight, it seemed. Definitely a two-week break...

I don't get the reflex dislike about drop goals. They're just another facet of a complex, fascinating game. They're always a gamble - reward them appropriately. You still have to kick more than two to equal one converted try.

So everyone wants the game to broaden its appeal, but then criticises channel 9 for getting a commentator that provides exactly that broader appeal? If you want to appeal to an audience more familiar with NRL, a lot of that audience are going to be familiar with Ray Hadley. Other than the...

That QF game last week against S Africa got everyone talking. I couldn't believe how many people at work were buzzing about it Monday, mostly people who'd never said a word about rugby previously.

What sort of stadiums would the US/Canada bid offer, Sir Arthur? Aren't they just about all artifical grass now? Mind you, I'd love it if the RWC did go there.