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Points system won't stop outside players joining the comp. The idea is that they all don't play at the same club. It's a better pathway if they are involved in contests each week,as opposed to flogging inferior teams most weeks.

Don't play it this year. If it can't generate more interest next year, then it needs to be consigned to history. Maybe bring it back if a super comp is ever established.

Swamp people is a new episode!

That would be a relief, if they had waited to reappoint the coach unil his performance could be judged. Clearly the focus of the year was the Olympics. It's not like they needed to move quickly to secure his services.

How could our target be top 7? Our fucking target! That, added to previous poster advising we extended the coach, just before the Olympics, just illustrates there is absolutely no requirement for high performance in any respect for this group. No wonder they are not excelling, it's not even a...

Just walked past the telly, javelin medals being fought out.mens 800 & women's gold won in this session. Plenty of empty seats,and I mean plenty! Seems to be the case in most sports,most days. Has the gloss worn off,or just huge mistake in host selection?

So no different skills. And just because 7's is awesome,that's your proof that world class test players wouldn't excel against inferior 15's players in this format. Which was the original point that you contested. I'm not inferring 7's is played by 3rd grade hacks. I'm stating there is a...

Really? Please,explain to me how 7's has evolved, so that it requires a different skill set to that of 15's, and what are these particular skills? Don't say fitness, cos that will just confirm that you are clueless. you do understand that someone who excels in first grade,is better than...

when you are citing Messam as a 7's failure,are you referring to his stint as a 32yo, or the 20yo that captained the kiwis to win it?

How many have tried & failed? Speight was a disappointment, I'll give you that. The honey badger looked woeful in just first start back,but improved immensely next start with improved fitness,then he was injured. QC (Quade Cooper) was ever really given an opportunity. MCMahon & Gill both dominated with little...

Fantasy is the nicest way to describe it:)

Mate if you can play test footy, you will kill it it at 7's guaranteed ( tight 5 excepted) It's a simpler game,played by a lower grade of players.

Grow into the role?????? He's the wrong side of 50! Let's review our results. We beat Spain, and we're flattered when South Africa effectively forfeited the pool game against us by playing their bench all game. And we lost every other game. We had one injury. Time to blow up the whole joint and...

Personally, if I was going to commit harikari. I would have gone out with a bit more a bang than that :)

^^^^ of course they will be, every worldwide search up there,finds the best candidate in the carpark :)

My read was that he was passively aggressive towards the coach. Nothing to do with the kids.

I don't thing time is the constraint,rather logistics such as accommodation being the issue. If all team sports increased the field size to 16 ( there is no argument for Rugby to be exception ahead of more popular and established sports like soccer or basketball) then the head count of...