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That makes sense Reg. I didn't consider not wanting to clash with the Reds games.

Looking like a good weekend for club rugby. Cold front arrived to keep the temps down but still quite nice in the sun. Depending on my ability to drag the kids out I'm going to try and catch a game this weekend. http://www.redsrugby.com.au/Portals/10/Ebook/2013/PremierRugbyWeek/7/#/1/

I'm not saying they should throw a heap of money at the Women. I just think that Olympic funding should go towards them. Currently the women's team have limited funding. If the ARU invest a little more they could get some really good returns. The women are the current 7's World Champs. We are...

This has been my thinking as the year has progressed.

I guess it makes more sense to keep Lucas on the bench as he covers 9, 10, 11, 14 and 15.

Hopefully the final chance to learn from Robbie as Wallabies Head coach. At $385 a pop it looks like it could be a revenue raiser. http://www.rugby.com.au/tryrugby/Coaching/NationalCoachingConferences.aspx

You would think they could work it out so each club plays in a home heritage round and one away. GPS are in 3 away rounds and 1 at home. Norths, Wests and Sunny Coast all miss out on playing in a heritage round away Cat_A Brothers snagged the Uni game as their heritage round late in the year.

I'm looking at the Women promoting themselves rather than Rugby as a whole. The way that Government funding is set up in Aust with Olympic sports is that if you win medals you get more money. That's the reason why money is being taken away from swimming (who underperformed in London) and given...

I'm not sure of the logic behind the selection of some of the Heritage Round games. Why would the Breakers game be against Sunnybank. I'm pretty sure they want to forget the GF they played in 2007. Sunnybank v Souths (20year GF rematch) and Uni v Brothers (100 years of history) make sense...

I think investing in the Women's game would be the best decision. We are the current World Champs with less than 2000 players nationally. We can attract large numbers in coming years and if we were to win an Olympic medal it would be a great springboard for the growth of women's seven in...

While Horne is showing good form at 12 for the Tahs he is probably the best 13 option available for the Force to chase. Also I think he would find 13 an easier role to play outside Goodwin than Carter or the other options at the Tahs.

If the ARU are going to take money for the Aust Olympic Committee and Fed Government now that 7's is an Olympic sport surely they should spend it on the 7's team. I actually think they should implement a national program for women first and then take a few years to adapt the men's program. We...

Davies, Kingi, Gill, Hooper, Speight, Schatz, White, Coleman and Mogg. Cooper could be an option now that he's started to tackle.

The ARU need to get serious and do the same thing. We need to have career 7's players who can pocket $100K+ per year. This way the players will forgo a Super contract to play at the Olympics. Unless things change we will just be making up the numbers, if we are lucky enough to make it.

It makes so much sense to me. The ARU and state unions should jump onto this straight away. You could have almost every school in the country play in a comp within a year or two. The majority would be knocked out after one day but they would have still taken part. If a team was to be crowned...

The issue with Wests is there's no depth. I'm not talking about quality here, more quantity. They forfeited Colts 1 on the weekend. If you can't field a Colts 1 team your chances of playing finals is very low. There are always exceptions, Souths last year. Wests needs to field 3 colts teams and...

They are playing in the U16 comp too, and winning. Will make for an interesting year. From memory the Sunnybank team drew with Brothers in the trails.

Pretty much my thinking. The issue for Australia comes if England find some form and finish in the top 4 of the IRB then they have to play Fiji or Samoa and life becomes harder. Also add France to the Europe pool. If GB in the automatic qualification they would be the Europe team. If not they...

The US only have to beat Canada to qualify from my understanding. Currently they probably wouldn't but they still have 2 years to sort themselves out.

Was thinking this morning it would be good to give Lucas a run at 15 on tour. This might be the game if Lance is out.