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Alexander is quoted as saying he is trying to regain the weight he lost during his injury , about 7 kgs he said.

You're obviously not a front rower ? The lock & no.8 have to bind first , before the front rows engage , & then they bind with the front row as you know .The reason for this sequence is that there is no way you can get an efficient bind between the front & back three ,the way you suggest.

1.Beale 2.Genia 3.Mitchell

Of course technique is very important , but Wales were definitely bigger & stronger .Saying that the Wallabies weren't binding etc. etc. is ignoring that very basic point.The number of times the ball was ripped from the Wallabies possession , even in the backs , highlighted that fact to me...

The tight five are always neglected in these types of thread .I give special mention to Nathan Sharpe for a sterling effort.

Hello !! No they're not !! You're wrong. Check out their father Vili , who played 16 tests in the front row for Samoa , & more than 200 games for Sydney club Wests.

How about Michael & Alan Ala'alatoa .

And the Samoans ?

Agree with most of your comment , except that the Hills team did not beat West Harbours 3rd grade colts team who as you know went on to win the competition.That game was against a number of colts players that Wests wished to remove from their training squad , & they used the game for that...

Do you guys honestly expect that the Shute Shield competition , which is utterly devoid of promotion by the NSW & Australain RU's throughout the entire season ,& not surprisingly by the media subsequently , is suddenly going to draw a decent crowd to it's grand final ? R.L. & A.F.L. has...

I disagree . The top schools sides may beat the lower ranked colts teams e.g. Parramatta , but would not beat the top ranked colts teams such as Uni & West Harbour. If you look through the weekly programmes you will see that the top colts teams have a number of ex 1 XV players from the schools...

I think he was with one of the teams at Balmain.

Yes Souths have Roos & Heather .Also quite a few from Wests including Lomax , Sio , Ferris , Hannam , Spitz , & Volavolva all of whom played some first grade.

I think Ben James played League this year.

Spot on. And it is the same in Qld. The criticism should not be confined to the S.M.H. however.What about the other papers , T.V. & radio ? Who knows anything about the state of the competition other than each club's diehards . And it is not just the final series of games that are important ...

Isn't West Harbour a club , or do you see them as a feeder club for the others ?

Players at his level are represented by agents / third parties in their negotiations.

I don't know what Uni gave him if anything , but I do know first hand what the asking price was.