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^^^there is an amazingly high number of players in rehab ATM. Seems like there's been significant turnover in fringe players, with several previous poor signings culled. I think we'll improve off a very low base this year, but that's in no way an expression of confidence in the management:)

But unfortunately that's not the law. It might walk like a duck and sound like a duck, but when lawyers get involved, we discover that the DNA slightly differs and now the argument rests on a ridiculously minor technical point about definitions.

There's a middle ground. A dominant scrum should be rewarded, but it shouldn't decide the outcome. As I previously posted, wicks had a prop carded, his replacement came on,and was immediately carded. I don't see that's a reasonable outcome. Clubs will start fielding pot plants that will just...

^^^^^^Scrums are their Achilles heel. Refs haven't been shy at dishing out yellows at scrum time in the last few weeks,. Last week he cardedd wicks props in consecutive scrums!

That's just poor refereeing, using more cameras doesn't trump incompetence. Just like the day before when Nick Kellaway went to town on Needs. They saw it, and penalised him for punching, no further sanction. I didn't think punching like a girl was a mitigating factor?

Yeah, everyone's slowed an opinion. My opinion is that she she sees Rugby as a photo op. I wouldn't be surprised to see her at a Bled or Olympic final. Not so much anything without significant press coverage.

You know he's a super ref, not just a park footy ref? Souths were on the wrong side of 50/50 calls all day, but I don't think many,if any were outrageous. But it definitely had a negative cumulative effect on their chances.

A big renewal of the ARU board? If you keep fishing in the same pond, you keep catching the same species of fish. For real change, you need to change more than a few faces on the board. How you engineer drastic changes without an Armageddon type scenario is the $64,000 question.

So true, demonstrated yet again last Saturday when wicks backs had their pants pulled down against a side with one fringe super player against their 3 contracted players and 2 fringe 9's.

The bulldogs ceo has failed in a much smaller role than the ARU position. They re signed the coach earlier this year, so they can give him a big chq when they sack him after the last round. They have signed 2 rocks stars that can't be registered with NRL because they don't fit under the salary...

Have a "save the force" rally at the same time as the test match, obviously at a different venue.

I'm reading plenty into it. Watch the game, the replacements weren't the issue, they looked like they were saving themselves for the finals. They've been leaking points all second round. I think their best hope is to draw the local derby next week. Edit: just watched yesterday's game, two...

Nostradamus !

Still alive, but I fear the prognosis is poor. Back to back losses at the worst possible time...

I don't know about that scenario, but it does seem that our partners are playing three dimensional chess and we think the game is checkers..... It seems to me that the whole table is betting strongly,and have presumably have good cards,ARU were dealt a two and seven, and complain about the...

Yeah,something did have to change. How about changing so the management so the joint is professionally run? There is a history of franchises needing bailing out, does the ARU see there is a common issue & demand to oversee how their money is spent to ensure its not repeated on a regular basis...

FFS Billy P is the victim in all this? Our chairman is so out of touch with reality, it's really a concern.

You're being way too generous, that assumes there was a process and franchises were being judged on their merits. If there was a process, it was reverse engineered to ensure their path of least resistance would be the outcome. It's clusterfucks like this,that confirms my cynical attitude...

Ok Twiggy, let's see what you've got! Hopefully I've been selling you short.

I'm just waiting for the federal government to audit the project,and determine that a jogging track does not constitute a centre of excellence, and demand their money back:( Which would pretty much sum up the current administration.