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You "have only seen him play a handful of times", 2blues, and so have the rest of us. Nick Stirzaker played Australian Schools in 2009 then had a gap year before playing Colts and lower Grades for Sydney Uni last year. He is part of the Extended Playing Squad at the Rebels. The young bloke has...

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"Married in the off-season, Barnes said he hadn't suffered any headaches other than a self-induced episode following his wedding night in Orange." My money's on he banged his head on the bedhead. Any other theories?

Nothing like dowsing the glowing embers with a liberal splash of petrol, wj. Do you have inside knowledge of the standard of medical practice in the ACT?

Sully, with regard to the T-shirt slogan in your avatar, is that like an agnostic's version of "Jesus is my copilot"?

The Colts season up to now has had 22 regular rounds plus finals, LG. I am led to believe, not being from a straw boater background, that the GPS season is only about 7 rounds.

My recollection, LG, is that he trained at the Uni gym during Year 12 along with a couple of other Scots boys, Clinton Sills and Tom Heslop, and may have played a few Colts games for Uni that year. On leaving school he went across to the Marlins. Player managers don't seem to like their...

I think topo's advice is quite sound, iluvmyfooty. The reality is that there are many player managers competing in what is an extremely limited market, so there is a natural tendency for there to be approaches to school leavers and kids still at school in order to preempt the opposition. But...

I don't see any particular problem with this. The reality is that only a very small proportion of players ever get to play professionally, and some who do make it end their careers playing in the less demanding environment of Subbies. Whether their motivation is to earn a few more dollars or to...

There are many things which are being done wrong in Australian rugby in my opinion, T&B, but I don't believe there is an over-emphasis on gym training, particularly strength training. Thanks for posting the link to the article; it's a good read.

Yes but there can be side benefits in the adult entertainment business that offset not getting an earn.

That would have been in the pre-Candice Falzon days. I imagine that nowadays young blokes force themselves to stay awake just in case their luck changes.

Neat line, IS. For some reason your comment brought to mind the army of non-players who infest the field at the Football Stadium before the Waratahs play their home games.

I'm trying to think of the last time you and I were on different sides of a discussion, wj. My issue is that Media and Communications graduates are often so desperate to get a start that they will work for extended periods unpaid. I don't think much of the business ethics of organisations who...

As indicated by the article one of the factors used by the U.S. Department of Labor to evaluate whether a worker is a trainee or an employee is: "The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the trainees ..." Using that criterion it is clear...

It’s only mid-January and already we have a nomination for the category of “Most Misleading Thread Title”. Tim&Bingo’s joint post directs us to an article by Paul Ackford in the London Telegraph titled “England’s famous brand of ‘hard-men’ have given way to gym conditioned athletes”. Far from...

Not a whole lot of privacy extended in the very detailed interview which coach Richard Graham had with Wayne Smith of The Australian.(http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/the-plot-to-catch-a-thief-in-the-western-force-ranks/story-e6frg7o6-1226242095430 )

A nice piece of analysis, LG.

As one does. Our man has just redefined the phrase, "rugby tragic".

I may be on my own here - I am accustomed to marching to a different drum - but I have quite a degree of sympathy for Willie Ripia. In most normal work environments, an employee who had been caught out committing this sort of offence and whose employer and work mates had decided not to refer...