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Well the US will host 2 very well attended test matches against the AB's and Scotland this year. Rugby's been on a big upward trend there the last few years. I think the way to do it would be to create a plan for the inclusion of a North American super rugby conference. SANZAR could help...

Good ideas Quick Hands. I hope you submitted them to the ARU. The pedantry around which blade of grass a tap is taken from can be quite funny. I think if it's in line or behind the mark it should be play on.

Anyway, lets just agree to disagree. We'll see what happens when the NRC committee put forth their preferred suggestions/variations. And then ultimately we'll see what impact any changes have. Maybe there'll be some genius stuff that none of us have thought of before. If something to...

Well it's difficult to do lots of things in rugby and most of them don't score points. But a few answers to your question: Because referees are often guessing or could blow a penalty either way. Because a try involves a lot more work from the entire team (or special effort from individuals)...

No problem with teams playing predominantly 10 man rugby if that's what they think is their best tactic to win. I just believe rugby would be a better game if teams had to score the points themselves when the other team has some chance to stop them. Why should the referee essentially have the...

Sorry I didn't mean to 'play the man' but I found the language in a couple of your posts highly patronising so I reciprocated. The point is that because they have to attempt with drop kicks penalty goals are virtually removed from sevens unless it's right in front near the end of a close match...

I wouldn't say that losing a man to the bin and conceding 5-7 points is likely. If you were penalised as the attacking team trying to run the ball out of your half then the other team would more than likely kick for touch. A good defensive team will always back their ability to keep the other...

Plenty. I'd say 2 to 4 games of super rugby most weekends. All test rugby I'm able to from around the world. I've recently moved temporarily to the UK so have had a chance to see a bit more Heineken Cup and Aviva Premiership. Was at the London 7's a couple of weeks ago and enjoy following the...

Well not from penalties they weren't. They also didn't go for many tries in the Sharks game recently. Preferred to kick the ball away every chance because they were afraid of making a mistake anywhere between their try line and about 5 metres past half way. Afraid because a mistake, or an...

Of course! I have no idea if the penalties the Brumbies scored off were cynical ones or where on the field they were blown. I'm only responding to Scoey's perceptions of the match. I do vaguely remember watching it and supporting the Reds because they were trying to score tries while the...

So what? It's the same sport with the same fundamental rules. Scoey is going on and on that if teams can't or don't go for penalty goals then it will result in all this cynical play. Well in sevens they never go for goal and they don't get more cynical play. And that's simply because when a...

Umm sevens is pretty much exactly the same game just with less players on the pitch. The ability to kick for goal is there but only with drop kicks and they are very rarely taken from penalties. Teams instead will always go for the try. That would be the same under my proposal. If you think I'm...

I can't think of a 15's game where both teams have consistently turned down penalty goal attempts. But sevens works just fine (largely) without penalty goals. In sevens cynical infringements are punished with a yellow card without warnings. Sound familiar? Keep in mind that your example is one...

First of all, using one game, where you have a biased viewpoint is not enough to make overall conclusions. You also assume that if the Reds had been kicking penalty goals the Brumbies would have played differently. Have you watched the Brumbies the last 2 years? That's how they always defend...

I wouldn't want to play in a South African conference if I was an Asian based union or franchise either. It'd be better for Asia to start it's own home and away 6 team elite competition that could, in a few years be added to super rugby as a conference. Say Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific Dragons...

You would never get 13 vs 12 because teams wouldn't want to get yellow cards so wouldn't cynically kill the ball in their own 22. They do so now because they're likely to concede only 3 points and then kick the ball down the other end of the field. The IRB allowed the Varsity Cup in South...

The Brumbies kicked 4 penalty goals in that game and missed 2 others. Sounds like a good example of a game where one team kicks penalty goals and the other team doesn't. Not an example of a game where neither team can kick penalty goals. The Reds scored 3 tries to 1 and drew. That would...

The state of origin is like the icing on the cake for rugby league. The actual cake is the NRL. Over a million people watch it every weekend for something like 30 weeks of the year. Most of those weeks contain 7 or 8 games. Without state of origin rugby league would still be massive because it...

I think it's in the interests of all professional rugby organisations and unions for rugby to be more consistently entertaining. They all want to grow.

Great stuff exISA, I didn't expect such a fantastic response. Best of luck with it all. It amazes me that there are two fully professional clubs in Germany. That's the same as Scotland and Italy. Obviously at a different level, but if the players in those teams are full time pros then they'd...