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I'll be pretty happy if everyone gets old farts to play but us.

Pfffft. Silly me, I read Pocock where McMahon was, silly Brain. Thought Place of birth was just the main criteria rather than the only one. Brain fart.

Is there an extended Wallaby squad you're not considering Reg? Gunn over McMahon and Snowden over Stirzaker seem funny picks if that's not the case.

Regardless, this should be something developed outside of the ARU, and they give the tick of approval for player release in exchange for the money. Shouldn't be wasting their own money on viability studies and marketing and that sort of thing.

Not many Nations can truly afford to do it. And a lot of nations just have a historical trend of players going elsewhere. The 3 Exiles sides, Newcastle with the Scottish Borders, Bristol and Bath with Wales, the Italians and France etc. Heck, even the French selected Picamoles from...

Has to be New South Wales v Queensland, it'd be embarrassing otherwise IMO. No allies concept either. No passion. However, I think it might, undo, a little bit of development work that's been put into WA and Victoria if Super Rugby is no longer the peak of domestic rugby. What incentive does...

Easy pools and "easy" pools. Reckon all the pool D teams would be reasonably happy. Japan would be happy with B, even with Fiji there, the other two are winnable. A and C are a little more difficult, what with the top 3 teams in both having finished top 6 at least 1 of the past 2 seasons.

Yeah, but Tuwai, or Forbes, or Senatla or Rodwell wouldn't be good fun.

All the Sevens players are in Australia the week beforehand for the Sydney Sevens. Plenty of Wildcards there.

Must have made his Facebook profile at 12 then. Naughty boy!

Permutations are meh. Ireland and Wales win all the other matches by 15+ to maximise point gain. Italy lose all their matches because they effectively "remove" points from the pool due to how far away they are from everyone else. Then you fiddle with the remaining 4 matches (England v France...

After playing with the calculator, there's not quite enough points that can be exchanged to see both of Wales and Ireland finish ahead of Australia in May.

Wales as our top seed makes up a little for not being there ourselves.

I no longer feel the same passion that I did for the Wallabies from about 2012 through to the World Cup. Aside from the Scotland and BILs games, I loved every win, and bemoaned and got angry at every loss. I thought it was just the Fox Sports arrogance, and a little bit of Schadenfreude based...

Right hand on the ball before the left hand leaves it. Try.

Refs haven't paid that one all international season.

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Yeah, I never said it wasn't our fault, just that it's reasonable to expect the ref to remind you, particularly given it's the first time their all playing under the rules. Either way, much like taking the line-out cleanly, or kicking the conversion at the World Cup, there's more than enough we...

Look, it's the first tournament any non-Australian (did the mitre 10 cup have the rule this year?) In virtually every game of NRC I've seen over the last 3 seasons, if there's been a penalty after the siren, the ref has reminded the team that if they wish to end the game, they need to tap, then...