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Greg Growden is morphing into an illiterate dumbed-down version of Danny Weidler with neither his style nor "reserve". His style of rugby writing is muck-racking, snide superficiality trying to hide his disdain and ignorance of the game whilst playing up to the leprous cabal of the...

And if true to form, by Round 1, Knox will have injuries to about three or four key players.....sometimes their conditioning/ fitness regime is less than reasonable. Though one hopes it will be not the case this year, and all players from all schools remain injury free!

I am curious, just how badly damaged is Jade stadium? (Or whatever name it is these days....it looks as though our kiwi cousins have our disease by flogging off the naming rights to the stadiums so they change on an all too regular basis..) If there is major work to be done on it, surely this...

OK, a rant or finally a verbal explosion of omething that has been annoying me for ages. And the Rebels versus Chiefs game finally did it for me. Why do Australian sides always seem to struggle with their footing on wet/ grassy fields so much more than other sides? Do these guys only come...

Anyone know what the story is with the injuries from the game?

About the only thing in which there is no hope has been my tipping. Absolutely dismal....

I am surprised at the stats for Horne and Waugh...both being good defenders I thought

Hmmm...I am going with the Tahs, but not with much certaintity. I think you are right that the Crusaders will start very fast, hard and aggressively and then start to falter. As long as the Tahs don't get too far off the pace the game will be there for the taking. It will be interesting what...

Or impart knowledge to players with players they used to be team mates with

From my reffing days I thought a minimum three week rest and then a return only with medical clearance was the norm for concussion....

But withsome of these players I fear that they would rather spend time scheming to get rid of their coach rather than concentrate on actually winning games....

Isn't eating cheating? As long as the beer is cold, beer lines clean, and the serving staff suitably suitable what else do we need??

Not sure what to make of this. True, the Brumbies have been underperforming, but I don't like this "player power" thing. It is not as though some of these players have been setting the world alight with their play either!

The powers that be must consider that they have a good side to enter that...it is not in the tradition up there to enter something in which they consider their chances to minor. Though the season is rather small, so the more games the merrier!

Trinity have a good 5/8, so if they can use their forwards (ie a tight kicking game) they may achieve. (Though with some sides, there are players who can do damage returning poor kicking!). Though they have been underachievers of recent times, they have started to ramp up their Rugby recently...

The Oaks used to be a top venue. It is still not too bad, but it is getting pricey (four dollars for a glass of soda water.....) and i ngeneral the staff don't know how to operate the tv's. You may end up watching the dish-lickers from Dapto initially rather than the rugby and the All Blacks...

I think the competition will be fairly even this year and the end result may be dependent on injuries, form, coaching and selection. Last year saw Barker come though on the back of a very good U16's from a few years back. But with kids growing, developing and leaving it can be quite hard to...

At least it means that there is one less game I will stuff up in my tipping comps. My sympathies to all those affected over there regardless.

The Brumbies will continue to bring their supporters as much grief as the Hurricanes. Unless they can keep playing with the same intensity all game it will be a long season. They had the same issue last year and it would seem nothing has changed. The coaching staff should have a good look at...