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Thanks for that - well, he was certainly a dominating forward at schools level in rugby union so I hope that he can get that back, a couple of years later now.

So it is the Emerging Rays who are playing before every home game - I was thinking from a NSW Colts point of view and they were playing every week at some Sydney ground to look at them for the 2015 Under 20s. Now I get it. It would be good if every NRC team could do the same thing, and...

Don't judge an 18 year-old on one Under 20 game if you haven't seen him play there against his contemporaries as others have week after week when he was at school a year ago - and the two years before that against older players. He is playing in the right spot now but I think you will be...

I missed that - so which home games are they playing curtain-raisers for? Each game in Sydney - or what? .

This was to be expected in the first year with the NSW teams, which are independent and nobody, or no body, over-seeing the selections. In the medium term, with each of the NSW teams operating in their own self-interests, players will come and go and most good players will get a shot though...

Nothing to be sorry about - he was outplayed by Sam Windsor: he was the big surprise for me last night. Windsor is supposed to have played for Leinster but I never saw him play for them, or can't remember. Is he the same Sam Windsor who played a few games for Eastern Suburbs and kicked the...

The Scarlet Pimpernel? The Red Devil? The Red Baron? No? As you were then. .

Bear I think that fullback is AKs best position (and Harry Jones's also) but as is the case with most gun school fullbacks, it is always better to start them on the wing in senior rugby. .

HJ - McDonalds - don't knock it - I parked there last night. The ITM Cup? Yeah - As I've said before: give the NRC five years until the teams, coaches and organisations shake out. The Kiwis have had nearly 40 years. Then give the NRC players the same pre-season training as the Kiwis get...

It was Crawford? Don't spoil a good story. It was in the far corner from me so I will give myself half marks for getting the try-scorer right. That mascots' race at half time was something. One guy lost his pants. Yeah Angus, the Shute Shield Player of the Year didn't compare with the...

It was a good night of footie; pity about the rain squalls. Met up with Pfitzy and Lindommer and talked about old times. Some stray thoughts: • Good to see a new referee I didn't know officiating at this level. • That Highlanders mascot deserves double pay in his topless outfit. • It...

There is not an official one but there will be one named in the Green and Gold GPS Review which will come out a couple of days after the last game. There will also be a a GPS team of the year and other stuff. .

Lala's getting the right weight to be a hooker. Maybe folks from outside Sydney don't know but he used to play 7 all the time for Randwick - then Cheika invited him to train at the Tahs last October. They needed another hooker at training before the Wallabies came back after their rest period...

You're not comparing apples to apples. Compare it in five years time when the competition is more mature; some would say longer. But don't compare it until the Aussie players are with their team pre-season as long as the Kiwi teams are, and they have the same infrastructure that teams like...

Agree Braveheart - he's always been a good player but you'd have to wonder about his gut. At 115kgs and 197 cms it doesn't sound to bad but when he was playing for the Oz Baas v the NSW U/20s earllier in the year someone asked me who the fat prop was. The players were a long way away; so I...

It will take a while for this competition to mature. Even this year would have started better had the NRC process been started earlier; but that was because of the need to get the Foxtel and Foxsports contributions nailed down first. It could have waited until 2015 but I'd rather see it in...

PS - I have added a few of my photos to the blog. .

More like the inevitable Lee Grant. I did have a programme but I lent it to somebody and forgot to ask for it back and he forgot to give it back; so I have to fudge my report a bit. .

The game is still on according to SAC. .

Who are your candidates for the position? .