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Australia have a 4 game tour England, Italy, Ireland and Scotland in that order. No midweek games have been announced yet, given the lack of options in Italy for a midweek game we may see one in the latter 2 week period of the tour against an Irish province.

Waratahs have come a long way since the hammering they took in Canberra. Really looking forward to this one, as mentioned above there is a lot of direct competition for Wallaby jumpers. Thought Barnes did well in his cameo on Saturday, I could be open to him playing at 12 but I imagine that...

I doubt they practise cross field kicks seeing as its been used once this season

Its tough to bring in a rule on this but something has to be done or else in 20 years we'll see a situation similar to NFL with early deaths, players suing the powers at be etc. At this stage I'd consider making the doctor who signs off on the tests liable for any concussion related issues going...

Rhys Priestland is making his starting return this weekend against Ulster. For some reason Gatland rates him I wouldn't be surprised to see he out in Australia at some point, especially if Wilko isn't keen on the tour, providing he doesn't have a stinker this weekend, which is always a...

Foley with his 7s background alone should have enough rugby nous to see who is which wing. If Aplon is relatively isolated and we have a back 3 player over there we should be trying this, even if it doesn't work it will hopefully put some doubt in the minds of the Stormers inside defense giving...

Doesn't even need to Folau they cross kick to on Aplons wing, any of the Tahs back 3 tower over him!

With this line up, especially if Lilo is at 12, the Wallabies might have too many chiefs and not enough Indians. They could have 4 blokes who like to pop up at first receiver and make things happen. Deans would be running the risk of having a back line looking confused and muddled because...

These new laws will reportedly be used in this years Rugby Championship. Hopefully they'll bed in quite quickly and we won't be seeing 4 minutes taken up trying to get a scrum steady.

Izzy on Rugby HQ, could he be making the announcement we all are hoping for?

More PB's for some of the players in the game against the Southern Kings (taken from the Members email): Adam Ashley-Cooper – 9 passes Peter Betham – 8 passes, 2 tries, 5 line breaks Cam Crawford – 3 tries, 2 line breaks, 94 run metres Bernard Foley – 53 passes, 176 run metres, 2 offloads...

For a start it would be good for him to get some match fitness, in his cameo against the Cheetahs he looked off the pace of Super Rugby. Shute Shield is a step down but given the Tahs have been in SA, and probably only had light sessions this week due to the train of traveling home, what kind of...

Finally a sensible amendment on the scrum from the IRB, looking forward to seeing this law in practice. Not often I'd say this but well done IRB

Looks like Barnes will be playing Shute Shield this week, according to the papers anyway. Kudos to Cheika if its true, everyone no matter what their reputation should have to earn their jersey back.

Whichever doctor cleared him to play for Ireland in the last 6 nations game should be hauled in front of the Irish Medical Board. That was a ridiculous decision, and he must a young mans life in danger. To play in that game he would have had to pass all the return to play protocols at the...

That's what I said (I think...), he's being re assigned to defense where he's been successful in the past. He took all the on field training under Kidney, now Schmidt will be doing that. Sorry wrote it in a hurry cause the boss was watching!

Apparently I saw him play against Leinster a couple times, didn't make much of an impression on my memory although that could be do with the alcohol consumption on the day! Doesn't seem to be much information about him online or much on youtube that I can find. He only has 13 caps for his...

Don't think money is an issue as the above have eluded to, the ARU/Tahs can easily match anything that league can give him. Rugby can also offer him much more travel wise, and provide better retirement options in France or Japan. Given that we'll see the dollar slide a fair bit soon the...

Not too sure where to put this but: JOE SCHMIDT has made Les Kiss the first appointment to his international back-room team. http://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/sealed-with-a-kiss-29246577.html Not sure how I feel about Kiss being retained, Irelands attack has got worse and worse under...

That kind of sensible suggestion just wouldn't be tolerated at Tah HQ