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No idea. It is an unusual name, though. Tim ended up in a pretty bad way, had a stroke. He was a well-known stand-over thug. His brother Max was pretty straight, though. Sorry, just cannot help.

Every genuine rugby tragic in Sydney would be absolutely delighted to see the Riff back in the SS. Bear in mind, you are so far west that you are almost in Perth!!! If Twiggy wants it to happen, my betting would be on it working out. We need some game-changers around right now.

Tim was a bouncer at the Newport Arms. His speciality was getting himself into a fight with anybody who was brave enough, stupid enough, or drunk enough (preferably all three). Tim was not a boxer, but he did not need to be, he was big and tough and strong. He took a few, but when he landed one...

There were quite a few Woodies players in the Force in the early years. Scott Fava, Keiran Longbottom, Sam Wykes. But yep, Hodgo of course. Not only played for the Woodies, but started with the Avoca Sharks. When I first started playing grade for the Woodies, most of my team-mates were...

According to an article by Georgie in today's SMH, the dreaded Shute Shield will be kicking off in July, and (hold your nose) it will have either a Wildfires team, or a Western Force/Emus combination. The latter option makes me wonder which north shore private school Twiggy attended...

Maybe that is because they are too complicated and rely on too much subjectivity to apply them? The fact that the game is doing okay in other countries does not actually help us very much, unless those unions that are prospering are willing to help us in practical ways. For example, they could...

There might be some value in having an informal sounding board of former greats of the game. But it is ludicrous to believe that anything formal and binding would ever be a possibility. No director worth anything at all would want to be dictated to by unelected "experts", especially when it...

Errrr. Phil Kearns? Abbott actually does have some attributes (and I despise the man's political record). He seems to live a fairly humble life in many respects, which is a lot more than we can say about the usual crew of rugby royalty. He was a Rhodes Scholar, got a Blue, worked as a...

Why not try to achieve something doable, like World Peace? Rugby Australia Limited (sic) is a corporation, and the voting rights of members are clearly laid out in its constitution.

Tony Abbott's out of a job at the moment........ I say this in jest. However, we could do worse. At least he has got some political connections.

Poor old Link was not very resilient. Chubby was brittle, if I had to choose an adjective.

I think Rennie is cut from pretty resilient material. I doubt that he will give a flying fart about external opinions from has beens and never wases.

I still don't get the joke.

I hope that Kearns does not get it. But whoever gets it might find that the Optus bid has vanished. It would not suprise me.

All older and wiser. Or maybe just older.

So the process that works for the corporate world cannot work for rugby? My understanding is that the selection process for board members and senior executives normally starts with the briefing of an executive search consultant. Sometimes there are some possible candidates in the selection mix...

Name some names. Who should be on the board?

It will be fascinating to see just who is willing to take this undoable job on. She copped pretty much universal vitriol from a lot of the game's supposed supporters, too. Including here of course.

I was a bit surprised by her statement that Rennie "has a desperate desire to coach the Wallabies". We are all desperate for him to succeed, for sure, but I hope he has a less dramatic motivation.

It's only cheating if you get caught.