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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I subscribe to Setanta and tape the ERC games. Four are live this weekend and I watch them when I wake up; the others are delayed and I tape them too. The trick is to watch them in the right order because the commentators sometimes give spoilers. The Top 14 games are on...

It was a fine win by Munster but Keatley will have to improve his goal kicking; geez, he was poor. You can't get away with that week by week. I'm in a bit of a quandary for the next two rounds: my favourite Irish team, Munster, is playing my favourite French team, Clermont, home and away...

Harlequins v Castres last weekend. Dave Ward of Quins throws the ball to the lineout - to the outside shoulder of his team mate. The referee is Nigel Owens, who declared he was gay a few years back. He blows the whistle Owens to Ward: "I'm straighter than that one". .

It would have to be to the ARU, methinks. But an interesting question is: does he pay it out ouf his own pocket (and it got to his pocket after tax was withheld) or could it be paid off the top, that is, his ARU top-up is reduced by that amount? But I believe that Beales' contract lapses at...

Great stuff HJ.

Yeah - I saw the list already PB. I just wondered about who was not listed because of injury (as opposed to being involved in the CC final) - and whether any unavailability really matters to the Boks - or not. .

Jac Pot will play a lot at lock and seldom at 6 methinks.

I think the Bok touring squad is chosen on Monday but the guys not in the CC Final plus some fringe and developing players are already in camp. What is the injury status of Malherbe, Reinach and Pienaar? And who apart from Fourie du Preez, Marcel van der Merwe, Schalk Brits, Grant Hattingh...

Many of us have watched him since his school days at Newington. He disappeared to league and didn't make it there and came back. He played some good games for Eastern Suburbs, but before he went away he had never consistently used his physique and natural talent that other emerging players would...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It would be just as unusual for the Wallabies' head coach not to be at a Aussie derby match elsewhere if they were playing on the same night. The Waratahs did contact sessions every single practice that I went to and Grey ran nearly all of them. He had some great one-liners...

I think the players got it right.

I assumed Grey's appointment was just for the tour but I may be wrong. My assumption was that TGC was taking his Tahs mucker on tour just so he had someone he has worked with before with him. It would do Grey no harm either. I also assumed that Grey would not have the role for next year but...

That was a good post before BBE. He does have his ways indeed. Last November he was training the Tahs pre-season. The Wallabies and some crocked players weren't back yet and there were a lot of hopefuls invited to train with the squad for opposed training. They were doing this exercise and...

Mark Doyle and Soil Ruggles take a hike for a week and when you come back make some sensible posts and cut out all those deleted posts. I trust you to do this voluntarily without being banned. Do not reply to this post Thank you LG .

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Yet one who generously gives his time for charities. Nobody is entirely perfect or imperfect. .

Watch the Munster game v Sale. It's not quite as exciting a finish as in the 2011 game against Northampton but it was a nail-biter. PS I have did a blog of the weekend's games yesterday here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/new-european-rugby-champions-cup-underway/ Sometimes I type the...

Harlequins beat Castres, the losing finalists in the Heineken Cup last season, 25-9 in the first game of the ER Championship but the French club did better than they have been doing in the Top 14 where they are near the bottom of the table. The visitors contended well in the first hour of the...

You're right OC - this competition has to mature - and it will be even better five years on than it will be next year. As a spectator I went to all the Rays home games and by the end I was a real fan again. I trust that I will pick that up next year from the "get-go" and that other fans around...

It's not Hawker's job to handle the matter. Typically a Chairman would be behind the scenes unless policy matters need to be aired in public, say, after a board meeting. Hawker would have been in contact with Pulver (who incidentally, is CEO and not a director as O'Neill was) to apply the...