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The follow-up comments highlight my point about us being "the most kind-hearted and easiest satisfied nation in world rugby." I was particularly taken by Cutter's observation that "the Wallabies, led by some of these younger players, played some very exciting, and even winning, rugby." Says it...

Are we? Bloody hell! That only increases the admiration for Deans expressed in my post above.

We would have to be the most kind-hearted and easiest satisfied nation in world rugby. Before the Spring tour our million dollar Kiwi had clocked up ten straight losses against his own country, our worst ever losing streak. But then came the triumphal procession through Europe. On the way...

LG, a couple of other Australians whose names have similarly been immortalised were a Miss Australia of the 'Forties, Shirley Bliss, and the great jockey, Edgar Britt. Serious devotees of rhyming slang, here or in London, always use the abbreviated forms so that only the cognoscenti or those...

They must have super size brown paper bags in Perth. Would not surprise me.

1. Wollongong Junior Secondary Technical School 2. Only guessing but probably John Bromwich although Frank Sedgman won the Australian Championship in 1949. Other possibilities would have been Dinny Pails or Adrian Quist. 3. FMH! He spent all his life in Port Kembla. Labor of course. 4...

Harold ‘Hadja’ Palmer was born in 1931 and died in 2008. He played for Port Kembla Surf Rugby Club. He represented Illawarra in 13 consecutive Country Week carnivals between 1956 and 1968. As you suggest, wamberal, the Waratahs site lists him as only playing once for the State, but my...

I'll start with two. Ben Roberts and Sam Robeson, an Under 20 representative last year.

Foley is a very talented 10. In a sane universe he would never be played at 12.

Exactly. That is a quintessential example of blinkered bile.

I think of it as being a bit like a grease trap, Reg. If we can have all of the bile collected here the rest of the forum can be about what distinguishes G & G R from other rugby forums.

HB, you still have much to learn about rugby. Wingers are not chosen for their intelligence, they are the cast-offs from a process of natural selection. In the male game the process starts at the most junior age levels. Boys end up on the wings because they are the last ones chosen, basically...

I wasn't aware of that but it does not surprise me. He has always said that he doesn't play for money. That didn't stop him from being quite hard-nosed in negotiating with the ARU. It rankled him that all the big dollars went to the blokes who did none of the hard graft. A unique individual...

Grouch, I'd be very wary of dismissing anything that Hickey says, no matter how seemingly bizarre. He has a rare talent for lateral or crab-wise thinking. After all it was only last year that he announced the discovery of the Hickey Hypothesis which states that the No. 8 adds no power to the...

That could be wishful thinking, fp. He has been sidelined so long with the elbow we wouldn't have a clue as to the status of his hamstrings.

That's not consistency, that's discrimination. Why should the metrosexuals come before the trogs? Not to speak of the inconsistency of having backs before forwards in the run-on players, then forwards before backs in the reserves. Is it any wonder that forwards end up taking to the drink?

That's potentially very exciting feedback, jason, particularly his commitment to the gym. Those of us who know the big fella should have realised he wouldn't have wanted to come back if he couldn't play at a high standard. Similarly with his studies. He won't mind me saying that he is not...

As someone prone to occasionally indulge in irony myself, I like your work, Mr T. The truth is that Link was apoplectic about Lawrie leaving and the parting was anything but harmonious. I don't think that Hilly had much to do with it, LG. When Lawrie came back to Sydney soon after he started...

I wouldn't assume anything at this stage. The man is a consummate professional. He never retired but had the opportunity to round off his education in a world class environment. All reports suggest that he has really applied himself diligently to that. He continued to play, albeit at a...