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He is certainly taking on a real challenge. It would be great for Parramatta and for Sydney rugby if he is successful in rebuilding the Club.

Yes Gnostic, I chose to read it as "tireless training" rather than "tireless training ... at ball skills". One of my enduring memories of Mark Ella was from the Manly-Randwick Grand Final at the old Sports Ground. Randwick threw the ball into a lineout and won it but the referee blew his...

The fact that he's still at school suggests that he has real potential. But no matter how big and powerful kids are, if they're not prepared to put in the work they won't advance in senior football. Uni S & C Tim Leahy may hold the key. He has had considerable success conditioning Pacific...

"Tireless training"?? Mark Ella? Lloyd Walker? I would have thought: "The key to them all apart from genius and practice at ball skills was backing up."

I think the scoreline was a good reflection of the game. Uni were disorganised and looked very flat. Gordon really turned up ready to play.

Certainly not when the player concerned has been the dominant centre in the Shute Shield for at least five years. Could you enlighten me on the "many effective centres coming through [the Waratahs] academy"?

"Does anyone else think Tom Carter doesn't deserve to be playing Super 15? He has been playing shocking for Uni and i personally hate him." One really stupid comment is all it takes to start them off. Outraged by the idiocy of that statement I made a ludicrously sarcastic comment about his...

I'm sure that those GAGRs who saw the match against Eastwood will agree that he was totally out of his depth, did absolutely nothing in attack and was just road kill in defence. He was an absolute embarrassment to his parents, his wife, his local newsagent and his kindergarten teacher...

My view, qwerty, is that the best way for really outstanding players to learn their craft is for them to continue to play at a level where they can dominate rather than being pushed prematurely into a grade where their focus is on surviving. In Australian rugby I think there is a tendency to...

TOCC, I can now see where you were coming from with your earlier comment: "Not including a Uni team in a new competition is a no-brainer, its highly unlikely that either UQ or Sydney Uni are about to financially back a professional team anyway." The assumption that you and a lot of other...

Why? Or did you mean "would be playing grade"?

Louden also had "a far more relevant coaching background for the [Western Force Head Coach position] than ever possessed by the hapless Richard 'Skills Coach' Graham." But when was anything more than lip service paid to ability in the murky world of rugby politics?

Without looking at the specifics of the roster of injured in terms of the nature and circumstances of their disability, Hawko, it is not possible to draw any conclusions. However in general I think that stronger and more powerful players have a decided advantage in collision situations, and that...

Where were you in the lead-up to the introduction of the ARC, TOCC? Sydney Uni spent five years preparing for the introduction of what was to be the Australian Club Championship. They had the funding; they had the players. In the event NSWRU hi-jacked the four franchises allotted to New South...

Are you proposing a bye week, chief? Eight teams playing one round only takes seven weeks - at least in New South Wales.

As you probably realise, wamberal, the situation with the Shute Shield will be very different next year. The lengthening of the Super season plus the introduction of the Melbourne Rebels will mean that the "Wallabies and fringe contenders" will have very limited involvement in the Sydney...

One big plus is that he'll come back two years crankier - and if there's one thing that Australian rugby is always deficient in, it's hard men. Dan never does anything without a lot of thought. At the time he went to Cambridge he left open the possibility of coming back to professional rugby...

Guinness has just gone up in my estimation. If I were a journalist lacking information I'd also go and stand next to the walking encyclopedia of rugby knowledge, Lee Grant.

Parhaps the two are linked, barbarian. Physical deficiencies constrain a team's tactical options. Do you really think that the Wallabies presently could play with the same level of intensity as the All Blacks?

Interesting that Peter Harding never gets a mention. I conclude from this that most people feel our physical conditioning is quite satisfactory.