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A bit concerned about your rating HPD? .

People are getting too excited about his going from rooster to feather duster, but hopefully it will be a story of going down the road, falling over, dusting himself off, and going forward again. As Vince Lombardi said: It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up. The good...

I'd like to see Luke Jones get the spot.

Healey knows SFA about forwards - you can judge that from his inane remarks about them in commentary. Ben Kay who sometimes is co-commentator with him would have made a better assessment. I would not be surprised if Retallick is named international player of the year after their EOYT. .

This thread is a hoot - my first visit. Whatever he weighs and however tall he is, McMahon has a priceless attribute: he plays a heavy game. In other words: he has the impact of someone who is a heavier player. There are not many around like that, and too many who weigh a lot and don't have...

Ah - the trouble one can get into because the keyboard's keys are so close together. .

There is a preview of the game here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/preview-wales-v-australia-mcmahon-start-2/ .

I wish that the points system had not been changed. More people than not would challenge my view and point out the number of tries scored—as if that answered anything. If you want more tries scored as the main thing you want, fine—the scoring system used in the NRC this year will produce...

A few weeks ago now but: Taranaki v Tasman Tom Marshall is playing for Tasman, and brother James is playing with Rhys Marshall for Taranaki. They're all involved in a play and Tony Johnson says: There's more Marshalls out there than at the OK Corral. .

Sean McMahon will be another Hodgson, hard and tireless, which is not a bad thing especially in Super Rugby. But to be a test starter he has to acquire those attributes of a specialist openside flanker that Cheika will see value in. If you have a lineout number 8 like Higginbotham in a...

No, they don't overlook players who are going to league. As Br. Bob Wallace, the ASRU President said to me: they used to do that but it was counter-productive. Now he said they want to give all boys a good rugby union experience and if they leave the code, at least they had a taste for it and...

Needs a bit of mongrel in my opinion; something that Simmons lacked early in his career - even early his test career. In particular he needs to shift people, whether he's running with the ball, they're running with the ball, in counter-rucking and stopping the same from the other side - etc...

Always was and will be. I've suggested it a few times myself. In his school days he got shoved into the second row because there's seldom good tall timber in schools rugby - though he played some cracking rugby in rep games at 6 and even 8. It was the same in Super Rugby where he operated...

The is a preview of the game here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/preview-barbarians-v-wallabies/ .

Geez I need some Irish editors. Thanks PS Munster home game in Dublin - that's actually funny. .

Oh - on Twitter - now I get it. Dallaglio wasn't too pleased in commentary either. .

There's no way that Cheika could survive in these days of the TMO. He was a shocker for Randwick - and just quietly, an apparent "Mr Clean" these days, Rod Macqueen, was the same for the Rats. .

That may have been Dallaglio, but your point about Pommie co-commentators is true—and Ben Kay was certainly in full moan in Bath v. Toulouse. By contrast Will Greenwood is OK. Incidentally I did a blog on some of the matches yesterday but ran out of time to watch and report on all of them...

That's not live here on Setanta Australia (Millwall is playing Cardiff); so I have to watch that one before Scarlets v Leicester, which is live. I'd better get out of this thread before I start reading spoilers. .

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm retired and have lots of time - and I'm a rugby tragic. I prefer watching Super Rugby because I'm an Aussie and follow our teams, but of the European domestic comps I prefer the theatre of the Top 14 - sometimes it is like watching a circus. Super Rugby will always...