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I don't think Fainga'a has a top up: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/6551913/Fainga'a-twins-reject-big-offers-to-stay-with-Reds

Don't worry about it dude, they didn't read the context with which I wrote it (and that's the internet summed up in half a sentence), so its water off a ducks back.

Loaning money (it was not a grant or a gift - it had to be repaid) is significantly different to *allegedly* doing everything in order to make one franchise more competitive than the others. The first is keeping the franchise afloat (with no thought given to winning or losing), the second is...

If Mike Harris is still injured, I would be happy to still have Taps and Ant in the centres, just have them as 12 and 13 respectively, instead of how they arranged them on Saturday night. I also would be happy if Toua stayed at fullback again - just pepper him with bombs at training until it is...

For a NSW/QLD match it was very odd. I can't recall either of those two sides (in league or union) playing without conviction like the reds did last night. Don't get me wrong, the tahs were great, but the reds just seemed to take it as if the result was inevitable, instead of fighting back...

You put the waratahs ahead of the wallabies. Nice.

I REALLY do wish that Genia and Cooper would stop remonstrating their own team mates whenever a mistake is made.

Unsure why the reds bothered to fly down there. It certainly wasn't to play a game of rugby.

The reds look positively uninterested in attack. I think they passed the ball all the way across the field for on phase (making no metres) followed by passing it all the way back (without making any metres) at one stage - and it was quite early on so can't be blamed on fatigue from defense. No...

Wet weather is generally not friendly to the reds.

Good game by the rebels. Some really good lead up work in some of those tries. There'll be more than a few teams shocked by the rebels this year if they keep up the hard team work they have obviously put in. Awesome stuff.

we have both!!!!!!

I always thought taps was a better 12, I would like taps and Harris to fight it out for 12 and Ant and CFS to fight it out for 13. Hopefully none of them go down with injuries and force a selection.

Wow, great tries by Toua and Turner. Both teams lacked a bit of polish last night, so a bit of a scrappy game. After a horror game, Mogg will hit back big time.

It's the Sharkies year this year for the overall win. The Chiefs will top the New Zealand conference. ARU to ensure that their team (the tahs) win the Australian conference.

James Leckie. Brumbies by 30+

Inconsistent refereeing leads to very scrappy matches as the players have no decent framework from which to guide the way they play the game. It is evident that some referees do not have the respect of some players given the amount of backchat, walking away, not listening and continued...

Bull-fucking-shit!!! I haven't read any comments on here stating that the reds lost it. Everyone here (including me) have said that the rebels were clearly the better team on the night - we just used different words and filled out the story of the night from their own perspective. My comments...

haha, yeah of course we spectators know best. But leaving the snide comments aside - I would see this competition as an opportunity to also raise the level of the refereeing in this country. I am generally really impressed with how the south african referees control the game and there must...

(I am not a referee, and could never do it. I think most of them probably try very hard to do what they can, but maybe just lack some sort of unified instruction or training system that regularly monitors and critiques what they are doing. I really don't know what happens with them here in...