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Will this be the Deans legacy? Robbie, no giant himself, attempting to prove that size doesn't matter.

E'nE, not for the first time I find myself in full agreement with your opinions. Late last year I wrote an article I placed on my own blog and also in G&GR's blog section. The article was titled, "Nine-a-side rugby: a game for boofy blokes". It started: "For many rugby aficionados the...

Unless you're talking about penises it's impossibly short. Are you sure you didn't mean 6'?:lmao:

Angry, I supported Spewn's statement that Sevens was "an ordinary game" in the sense that I do not find it enjoyable to watch, e.g., too many soft tries, not enough forward engagements, etc. That doesn't mean that I don't see its value in widening rugby's appeal.

I don't know about being "stuck in limbo", dob, but Nick Phipps spent 3 years in Sydney Uni Colts learning his craft. Less than three months ago he was playing Third Grade. Maybe Uni were a little slow to bring him through but it doesn't seem to have done him any harm. The advantage of having a...

One important point that I haven't mentioned is that the system developed by Martin Harland and Tim Leahy at Sydney University, which has no real counterpart elsewhere as far as I know, enables players to do heavy strength training year round. Any training system that appears to produce both...

One thing that comes to mind, Brumby, is that approximately 30 Sydney Uni players are involved with Super franchise training and quite a few more are carrying injuries, so the team available would be very thin. Another problem with playing these games after the end of the season is whether...

He has been doing a lot of skills work, particularly kicking, throughout the season, but I understand his major focus is on developing a Sevens program for both men and women. He believes that at the top level Sevens players should be specialists; which is interesting because he was a superb...

He went very well in the Shute Shield Grand Final despite losing 7kg during the week from what I understand was a gastric complaint. Very powerful lad who has a big future although the Force are not exactly lacking back rowers.

Could someone please wake me when it's over? Different strokes for different folks I know, but I wouldn't walk across the road to watch it.

I think, JJJ, that there is a definite place for kettle-bell training in the mix used by rugby players. They are used at Sydney Uni along with the various types of equipment employed in strong man routines and I imagine that many other gyms would make use of them.

Thanks, newb. There is a major problem arising from the fact that players train under different training regimes throughout the course of a year. Wallabies - Super - club or Sevens - Super - club for instance. This year the Super 14 players came back to train with Uni from the end of that...

Cutter, there are just two points you have raised that I choose to comment on. Could you please point out exactly where I have said or intimated that Sydney Uni have developed an "unbeatable style of rugby"? With regard to your assertion that Uni have been "playing the same style for the...

Blue, this reinforces the point you were making earlier about the Sydney Uni style being quite similar to that used by the Bulls and the All Blacks. By the way, what is a "munter"? According to Wiktionary in England it is slang for "an ugly woman" while in New Zealand it is slang for "a...

If we go back to September 11, topo, less than a month ago, only four of the team that played against Penrith had any connection to the Waratahs.

Torn, I don't think that the physical imposition style necessarily means the demise of smaller players. Berrick Barnes seems to thrive in this type of game but the Waratahs list his weight at 87kg. Last December he also won their strongman competition which included chin ups, farmer's walk, iron...

I presume you mean Jack De Guingand, en_force_er. He is very talented but I didn't realise he was Mexican.

I must admit, Numero Uno, that I do have a fairly close connection to the University players, but it is interesting how much you can see when you watch a match live and then watch it on replay. Hawko, I doubt that the Waratahs could successfully play a physical imposition style, given the...

I agree that there are definite similarities between the Sydney Uni style and that of the All Blacks and Bulls. But I also see some significant differences in approach. 1. I think there is a more extreme focus on strength training at Sydney Uni than what I have read about the All Blacks or...

By all means, RR.