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A lot of NZ and SA players will go back to play CC and ITM though. Not as tough probably as Tests but they usually come back into their squads around finals time I think.....

I was at Game 1 in Sydney this year. Probably around the 60-min mark we all jumped up for some reason (a penalty or something) and the guy behind me made a remark something like 'that Richie McCaw is a fuken prick'. I turned around and the guy looked straight at me and said, 'Yeah that's right -...

Again, I don't think the ruck rules need an overhaul. I don't see where the big need for it is and I don't know what it would achieve because, as I said before I think it's impossible to get wording that will unequivocally make every situation in a game clear-cut and easily definable. I still...

Can't imagine how it would make it worse ;)

1. Rucking isn't banned. 2. What is this 'genuine' physicality you're looking for? Is the tackle/ruck area currently an area of feigned physicality?

I don't think there's anything wrong with the Laws as they are. The sport is about competing for possession and I think it's impossible to get wording that will unequivocally make every situation in a game clear-cut and easily definable. I don't think McCaw actually broke a any Laws in the...

Well, I'd start with 15 players to begin with...... ;)

LMFAO.....good call :)

Matt Burke? Is that you?? ;)

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^^Exactly BCP. The tackler must release the tackled player but he doesn't have to move away IF he gets up to his feet immediately. That's the beauty of watching players like McCaw, Pocock, Brussow etc...

Top Bloke - you only highlight the second part of 15.3. The first part says, "The tackler must immediately get up" which is what Richie McCaw did. Technically, thee was no ruck formed so, as the tackler, he obviously felt he was entitled to go for the ball but he was taken ot of the play almost...

Piss off. I'll take SBW all day every day. Everyone who works with SBW all say that he is a great guy to have in the team in every aspect. People don't like him because: 1. He walked out on his Canterbury Bulldogs contract. 2. He only signs 1yr contracts. 3. He boxes. Only one of those...

I have always advocated for Beale at 10 but I hate doing it like this. I'd love to see him given the 10 jersey at the Rebels for 2013 and then brought into the Wallabies. In saying that, if his head ain't right....he'll be a total disaster

Here's why I disliked QC (Quade Cooper). He didn't do anything at all in terms of grunt work and his tackling was appaling. I don't like cheap shots in general but when they're done by someone who is known for his lack of physicality, as QC (Quade Cooper) was at that point, I find that particularly disgraceful. If you...

I think that ball being on the ground is pretty fundamental to what constitutes a ruck.

I don't know if the 2 weeks is long enough but I'm glad it was and has been penalised. On a slightly different tangent.....McCaw just seemingly keeps going and going and going. The man is a legend and, at this rate, may take the mantle of being the best All Black ever......

I'm so sad about this news. Watching Woodcock almost single-handedly destroy the Rebels scrum this year was one of the highlights of the Blues season.......right before the low-light of losing that game....LOL

I'd move to O'Conner to 11, Tomane to 15 and put Leliafano at 10. Turner would be lucky to be on the bench in the WRT (Wallaby Rehab Team).

Sounds like North Harbour stadium! LOL