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The lists so far, and the NSW personnel I know about, confirm that there is quality and depth in the backs and flankers, plus a few decent hookers and LHPs. It also confirms, on paper, a lack of bruisers and lineout gurus in the second row and line-busters at no. 8. Lolo should be the no 8...

It will be named, or at least finalised, tomorrow. It will not be the final squad, just the New Year cut for their training squad as the ACT and Qld squads posted seem to be. There will be only 28 players in each team's final cut. Super Rugby players like Placid and Kellaway may not play in...

He played the last 25 minutes for Saints and was bloody scary for the Quins scrum, which was missing LHP Marler. This made Saints THP Salesi Ma'afu look like a genius. Geez - what happened to Munster and Glasgow. P. Paddy? .

Steady on about using the Adelaide Steamship 1980's comparison. I concede the Middle East. .

Harlequins took their home game from the Stoop to Twickenham just a couple of kilometres away as the crow flies. They were playing last years' champions, the Northampton Saints, and instead of getting 15,000 (tops) at the Stoop they got 82,000 at HQ and earned a bit more coin. Despite being...

Harlequins v. Northampton - Boxing Day Scrummie Danny Care does a good job of picking up the ball from a mangled Harlequins' scrum and clears his line nicely. Commentator Austin Healey, ex-England and Lions scrumhalf: People at home don't understand what it's like when you're trying to...

I've just had time to watch a couple of Aviva Premiership Boxing Day matches. Bath beat Exeter to continue their bid for a premiership. With Aussie Dean Mumm captaining the Exeter Chiefs and Leroy Houston continuing his decent form as no. 8 for Bath, both sides looked like Super Rugby teams in...

Yeah he's been injured. He made his comeback last weekend after being out since the beginning of November. He was pretty good before then apart from one shocker he had but he wasn't the Lone Ranger that day. So far he has started in every game that he has played in which is a good measure of...

Who can say? I wish we could all brag about our tight five forwards in the same vein. As we all know: the team with the best tight-five will usually appear to have the best backline also. .

JOC (James O'Connor) played OK for Toulon but was not usually in their starting team for big games. He was in the matchday team in three of the four ERCC games to date but was on the bench for each. He was a good impact player however. He will probably be in the starting team somewhere for the Reds but where...

But as we take a break and return to pulverising Pulver ……

Being ludicrous does not stop a matter from being debated unfortunately. Whatever faults he has had we must give Pulver credit for starting three new competitions in 2014 that ran on the fumes of an oily rag. - the National Under 20 competition - the Junior Gold Cup - the NRC There were...

Round 14 At the start of the second half of the season Stade Francais are leading the Top 14 since they beat Toulon in Paris 30-6 - and Clermont lost away at Lyon at the death 16-13. The remarkable thing is that Stade has a points differential of just +8. Had they not scored two converted...

There's been heaps in schools and senior rugby, including professional rugby. .

Let's talk about the rugby on this thread. Bickering about the Byron Bay brouhaha is hereby barred. .

I was indicating that we should close it down at one minute past midnight. This is going the same way as all the other similar threads that do not serve the sport well - nor often, the players; certainly not, the forum. Right or wrong some of us are like those who are fascinated by the...

How soon until we can close this thread down? 2015? .

Guys let's use capital letters when appropriate and stay clear of twitter English. Thank you. .

I hope the 23 year-old friend the police want to charge is not a certain rugby player he sometimes holidays with.

There's a blog on the Tahs training before the Christmas break here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/waratahs-hit-break/ .