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True, three of them are from Qld but two aren't. Pat Langtry adds input from the ACT and Manu Sutherland sees a lot of Sydney schools games. There weren't a lot of dominant forwards in the Oz Schools Championships this year, especially in the second row and I don't think the flankers were...

Not good enough - get Pfitzy sitting next to the camera to get his insightful comments recorded. No doubt a mike could be plugged in - and expert comments from his mate (he has a friend) Lindommer, provided he is sober at the time. .

Yeah they will never be always correct all of the time, whatever that is, any more than the Wallabies side selections are. I agree about the Combined States system offering a better chance to players overlooked by the other teams, but it must be the hardest side of all to pick. People...

I don't know why we are getting our knickers in a knot about the crowds. Hopefully when the NRC organising body did their due diligence review of the bids they twigged to any over-estimating of revenue (the bane of most budgets) especially the gate takings portion of it. They would have had...

One Aussie I liked playing in Europe was Jim Williams. They loved him in Munster and called him "Daddy Seamus". When he stopped playing they gave him an assistant coach's job because the players responded so well to him. He was a gladiator for them and in their conditions a few months of the...

Thanks Ash. I've already seen them all from last weekend but I'll look for them next week. I guess it's a case of seeing if that blog is up first before I start looking elsewhere. I think I've looked before and it wasn't up that week; so I didn't look again. It takes a bit of getting used...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ No, there won't be. The Kiwis are putting this on for their home consumption and they obviously just want the NZ component. At least we are getting two games on this NZ tour: two years ago, and four years ago, we got only the test match. Two years before that we didn't get...

Well, the laid back Barry John was something else wasn't he? I at least saw the great man play; sometimes he seemed fast asleep like Bernie Larkham, but the mind was always ticking. On James - he is a facilitator, not a runner, and is certainly more than a kicking machine. French rugby lacks...

Giteau has certainly been in good form in the last couple of years; in fact I thought he was one of the best players in the Top 14 last year. It will be interesting to see how he plays at flyhalf (mainly) this season after playing 12 (mainly) outside of Wilko since he arrived. I still can't...

Well Brock is a bit on the wane now but was more than competent for Clermont for 5-6 years. How much Top 14 rugby do you actually watch? .

Chris Malone? That's funny. .

Yeah that's one reason I like the Under 20s system now. The Tahs are not at all interested what the rugby pedigree of players are in their Under 20s training group they just want the best players and they don't care what school they went to. Cheika told me they "processed" about 75 NSW...

That was in reference to our recent good results against New Zealand from a selection panel that hasn't changed a whole lot from year to year. Results against NZ are the harshest test of selectors getting it right. Sure some good fellows miss out on schools' selection and if that is the...

^^^^ Yeah - with Crichton out he is now a better chance to make the starting team. PS - We are fond of picking teams to play on schools tours but don't pay a lot of attention to who starts in any game except the test against New Zealand. That will be their best XV of players who are fit to...

This is always true, and the selectors usually get it right more often than we do. I thought that James Lough is more the type of player that we need to play against the Kiwis in the test match than Fox is. Those are the players I would have leaned towards more for all the squad selections...

That was in the Aus Championships when I mentioned that, but maybe he just had a four games below his usual standard. He didn't compare with Angus Crichton or James Lough the NSW no. 8s. He had some nice linking Higginbotham moments that were noticeable and made folks ooh and aah, but he...

Thanks - That didn't work for me, but I just found this: Then the other games are listed on the right. .

Anybody have links to a full game from last weekend (that works) - i.e. excluding the TV game on Thursday? .

^^^^ Savage was my pick but the thing I noticed most about them was their pack mentality and getting to the ruck quickly most of the time. Lineout throwing was not so good especially when Abel (starter), was throwing but some of those may have been bad choreography. Not that the Rays were...

Lacey only lasted a few minutes and had to limp off. 4 Corey Thomas (Perth) went off before half-time in a lot of pain - looked like an arm injury, but could have been a shoulder. A Rays' player got stretchered off - hopefully just precautionary - couldn't see who it was, but I didn't notice...