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Ignorant comment GG. When an ever increasing group of all-time greats say he is up with the best they've ever seen, we need to take notice. The guy covers between 12-14km per match, is a brilliant ball runner in traffic and broken field, great cover defender, and does an incredible amount of...

Agree with your assessments TBH. Hodge can play too and made it into the broader Australia U 20 Squad before missing the final squad.

Yep a little preference and a lot of $$$$$. It was the amateur era in rugby too. Interestingly, Wally has been quoted as saying Mark Ella is the best footballer he's seen.

Newbie The Australian Coach most guilty of picking 'his boys' was Alan Jones from Manly, and many were very ordinary too. Look up the names and you'll wince. On another note I heard that the CHS Final was between 2 Country teams for the first time in a while.....if so, well done to the...

Skins or similar should help in most circumstances

Inmates have got the keys at NSW Rugby. In 2010 they advertised the wrong semi-final colts games at the wrong venues on the wrong day. One positive is the Club rugby scores are updated online by 7pm on Saturdays.

Don't contribute then or do what you do when there's a show on TV you don't like....change the channel of turn the TV off.

That's a given, it's not about converting over a week or an off season, it's about who would have 'made it'. Add playing outside centre in defence as a huge challenge for a league convert. Just grab a copy of Tahu against Sth Africa when he was clueless and impersonated a turnstile. Many people...

Agree that Joey would have made it in Rugby but Mark Ella played flat line attack like nobody else.......remember him? The defence Ella faced wasn't back 5-10 metres like league and he had a flanker flying at him too.

Shane Webke @ 3 Gordon Tallis @ 6 John Raper @ 7 Cameron Smith @ 9 Brett Kenny @ 10 Steve Menzies and Gene Miles @ 12 & 13 Billy Slater @ 15

Booing, whinging, crying - enough! I'll tell you who'd give them (the players) something to cry about - Cheika. He'd also give them purpose and enjoyment in their rugby. The players would hear blunt, honest and constructive truth about their individual and collective performances, both the good...

Good piece and well researched. I note some cynicism however about his winning of the Heineken Cup. I don't care which club or country you represent, winning the HC is HUGE and should never be taken lightly. When Cheika arrived at Leinster he inherited a team that had consistently done 3...

It's Paterson for mine, Clunies-Ross 2nd and daylight third in the fullback race. Paterson needs to do some work on his decision making but it's about a little restraint to not attempt the impossible so often......what a dream player to coach, you only have to discourage him from doing too much...

No, I'll leave you here, as it's no longer fun, and it would be cruel to do you slowly. I also learnt a long time ago that you can't win an argument with an idiot. A final thought though. You refer to your own comments as educated SO please stop; - Spelling "you're" as "your" - Spelling...

Keep Tilse for 2013 then if that's your idea of positive, end of discussion.

Don't you go there every day for work?

No, he doesn't work hard enough.

WaratahJesus, stop drinking the Kool-Aid! Review your 1st reply sentence above "But if the move tilse on and he performs it will be because he left the Tahs not because of the coaching and effort that been put into him holistically" What the living bejesus are you trying to say? It must be...

Or the Waratahs persist with a player like Jeremy Tilse for 6 years. He hasn't developed and still struggles at scrum time after all this time in the system with Wallaby scrummaging coaches etc. Even his own club pick him in 2nd grade sometimes. 6 years and 3 coaches later, Tilse is still on the...

Save your energy, forget week by week diagnosis of the Waratah's efforts.......just use reports from any of the last 5 or so years and change the date. When a player or team has the ball, there are only 3 options; - Kick it - Pass it - Run it Today, the Waratah's players cannot effectively kick...