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Top game this - Rays win 32-29 - cracking game. Crowd 2080 - not bad since only one team was from Sydney. Great effort from local Perth boys who had many players I had never seen before, at the ground. .

I wrote a blog about the law changes a few days ago that may be of interest. http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/nrc-law-changes-working/ .

^^^^ My proposal was more for the likes of Joe Rock or Sivi at the end of their international careers which NZ would not have objected to. It wouldn't cover the Steffon Armitage case; nor did it purport to: It was only from first tier to second tier. It is hardly likely that a player would...

I've seen him play for Sarries - he did OK too. Commentators Nick Mullins and Lawrence Dallaglio gave him a big wrap. .

About 10 years ago I postulated that players in the top tier of rugby nations should be able to play for a second tier nation if the first country they played for had no objection, and if they otherwise qualified for the second tier nation. It shouldn't work the other way around. I posted...

That makes it twice Sully. .

Skelton would be fine as a tighthead lock but you have to have a 6 or 8 who is near enough to a specialist lineout man. Mowen was of that type and the lineout sergeant as well. Mowen wasn't the best Wallaby who ever was but he was undervalued, as would have been more obvious had Simmons...

^^^^ Fiery but a loose cannon. Mind you - that didn't disqualify Rory Walton for getting a gig out west. .

He's another converted backrower (now a hooker for those who don't know him). He busted his ACL pre-season in a Under-20s hit-out but I haven't heard anything since. Anybody else got news on Moli So'oaemalelagi (the curse of the ground announcer when he scored a couple of tries at Riverview a...

In my eyes he could be a natural hooker even though he is 125kgs because he is naturally athletic, a good runner and has good hands, and being a cousin of the Sios he has a few hardness genes within him. Provided he could learn to throw the ball into the lineout, that is. TPN started in the...

^^^^^^ Agree though Latu didn't set the world on fire last season - but I'm forgetting that he is very young. Third string Roach is a workhorse but, like Latu, has to improve his throwing. Gray had an unfortunate start to the 2014 season with his injury else he may have got more games. But he...

^^^^^^ It's not great is it? I expect the Tahs will have a strategy for it. They should start rotating early in the sequence so they are not forced into it in the last few rounds. .

I see that Fereti Sa'aga is on the bench for the Rising and will debut if he gets on the park. He was the starting LHP for Aus Schools last year in many of their games and played the same position for Samoa in the Under 20 IRB Championships this year. He will likely play for Oz Under 20s...

^^^^ DB Are they having another curtain raiser using the emerging players? If so, who are their opponents? .

Rams v Stars here also - don't understand the @ thingo mentioned earlier and maybe others don't also. .

If you mean the team that played against the Emerging Rays players as the curtain-raiser to the NRC match, it was: 1. G. Fatoa (Penrith) Easts 2. J. Wilkinson (Randwick) * 3. C. Orr (Gordon)** 4. J. Anderson (Norths) 5. L. Lealaiauloco-Tui (Eastwood) * 6. N. Kellaway (Norths) 7. W. Cronan...

They had an unbeaten year in the GPS competition after they beat TSS 41-0 in a warm-up game, and though some questioned the provenance of their team (a discussion which belongs in the scholarships thread) their rugby was good to watch. They were co-champions with Newington in 2013 and this...

It's been good hasn't it - and I said similar things in 2007 with many of the ELVs used then. I have no doubt that these successes will prevail to the end of the competition. But such success in the NRC will be as relevant as the success of ELVs were in the 2007 Shute Shield and the ARC...

He is a marvelous attacking player but he can make bad decisions as young players do. Sometimes he plays some crackpot rugby. We all saw him have an unhappy game for the Reds rushing out of the line. Later he withheld a pass to his winger against England in the Under 20s when a try looked...

^^^^ He had a few problems didn't he? But he will come good: he's too good a youngster not to. This NRC is just what the 20-year-old needs. I must admit I hadn't thought much of Veainu in the past, either in NZ or playing over here, but that may have been more the fault of my assessment than...