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If he does all of those at the moment he’ll be a show for the test squad vs England.

Ed Craig is back baby! The Scotty Minto of Super Rugby!!!!!

I’m not completely disagreeing with you - but I was surprised how many clean outs he did.

I don’t understand. Look - I’m not trying to be derogatory or argumentative. I don’t have a problem that you have a different opinion to me. But your analogy was a poor one. You can’t seriously think that your examples are relatable to my post. Then to double down by suggesting that the...

Not to mention caused enormous friction because his club coach was Mike Ford and Sam’s switch to the centres was at the expense of Mike’s son George.

That’s not even close to the same thing and, if you genuinely think it is then let’s just leave it at that.

That’s just not realistic. What you’re not acknowledging is what Wendell, and the others, had/have already accomplished when they are contracted. Some of these guys prove to be good boys, some don’t but that is no different to the risk of contracting one young player at the expense of another...

Which ones are a stretch? Ben Barba is maybe questionable in the list, but he did play top 14. Who else? Plenty of people cross over successfully. I don’t understand why it upsets people so much.

It also supports the 20 minute Red card rule IMO. Without getting into the right of the wrong of the judiciary decision, it effectively means that Bell should have never been sent and it should have only been a yellow (well - I’m assuming they think it still should have at least been yellow)...

Yeah, unfortunately the influence is already there and in a number of ways. I’m aware of an AIC school where a couple of the teachers come from a league background. They couldn’t care less about the rugby history/tradition of the school. They are very active in promoting league in the school...

I think this will alarm lots of people and it will again raise concerns around inconsistency. Personally I think some level of ban was appropriate as he definitely lifts the leg. However I understand the argument was that it was the actions of Angus Ta’avao which were key in turning the...

To be clear - I’d be ecstatic if he’d do that.

I might be a bit slow on this, but good to read today that they expect Frost to knock back the Japanese offer and stay in Australia. I think he still has some development to do, but a very good prospect and it would be very good news to hear he is being retained in Super Rugby.

Despite popular opinion not every sporting club is a money pit - from everything I’ve read Twiggy wants the Force to be a well run business. Every well run sporting club business includes some level of sponsorship, so he’ll no doubt reach into his pockets - but I don’t think we should assume he...

I don’t really see he was that bad Reg. He made one or two bad choices, but I still thought he was one of our better players and has been one of our best this year IMO. Maybe I missed a bit, but I definitely wouldn’t be dropping him. To be honest I think he’s been the form Australian 13.

He can obviously pay for it 10 times over, but that doesn’t mean he wants to or we should expect him to.

Not sure how Twiggy will feel about it though. We are probably already being a bit presumptuous too assume Twiggy will dip into the coffers to help address the talent gap for the Force. Expecting him to stump up further for the rest of the comp might be a step too far.

Hopefully Uru & Petaia back this week. Where is Salakai-Loto at? I thought they named him to play a couple of weeks ago. Has he re-injured himself? There is lots to like about how Vest has played this year, but he is realistically our 6th choice lock & flanker and it showed on Saturday. I don’t...

Agree 100%. I don’t see how what he does there is outside the rules. It seems to me we are penalising him (and others) for being outstanding at it. Different if he was in contact with the ball when he made the tackle.

I’m not really sure - in a variety of ways I believe. Sometimes the kids just apply for scholarships at these schools and get them, but others I know are contracted to league clubs from early ages and they end up on these scholarships. I don’t know the mechanics of how they are done. Jack did...