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Relocation costs were a big part of why the ERC failed last time. If we are to have relocation it needs to be organised so that players who have not set up to permanently live there are the ones to move. Then they can go back to live with Mum and Dad for a couple of months. Forcing someone...

Against a player with Wallaby caps and vast experience in Super rugby? I doubt it.

As in we were offside all night or we were too aggressive/inaccurate at the breakdown? Why not run a women's sevens game at half time every game in our conference against a team from the opposition that week? Its rugby, it would be great publicity for the Australian women, it gives them match...

I think its a bit more complex than this. There are (at least) two extra considerations: The concentration on speed means that if you want an athlete at their peak then they will be youngish. As the top speed drops off with age so will some sevens players. This is not a universal rule - DJ...

This poster is clearly too young to remember all the poaching that league used to do before the end of the amateur era. It coincided with a time when Rugby in Australia did not have a lot of depth and hurt our national team for many years. Why were they poached then? They were superb athletes...

The white collar is a bit naff but the rest of it is pretty good. And praise be, it doesn't seem to have a union jack plastered on it anywhere.

Took me a while to figure out if it was an ad for the Brumbies or the Hurricanes - the first bit just looked black and yellow. But I warmed to it, it builds up to a real climax.

Take the bus from Central. I've never missed a start because of it, but I have trying to drive to Moore Park.

Reg, the voice of bitter experience says "Don't do it!"

I don't think he has to be quick. In the NH, both France and England have had players who were big bulldozers and not much else. Bastareaud's play last week showed how limited this strategy is and how much better a fast elusive centre can be. England is playing a high-power attritional game...

Reports are that he will get some time next week, that he's resting some "niggles" from his Japan sojourn this week. Personally I would like to see Douglas and Skelton start against the Force with Potgeiter coming on for twenty from the bench. Its a long comp and resting Potgeiter now could...

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed then Mohammed must go to the mountain. The Force need to line up a tour to SA, stay for two weekends playing trials and bonding in the week between and then come back ready to hit the ground running.

The Rebels live commentary was so bad you couldn't listen to it. What commentary you could hear was banal and undescriptive. But the main problem was the distortion, breaking up and crackling. You could only understand snatches of sentences and then whole slabs of it just went onto repeat. I...

Won't say that I'm distressed he won't be lining up against us in the season opener. :)

Reported today in the SMH that Craig Clarke, ex captain of the Chiefs and now playing in Ireland, has had 10 concussion incidents in the last 22 months. He is now on an indefinite break for testing and recovery, which is obviously a good thing. But, you have to ask the question: "How can a...

Are the Force playing any pre-season trials against good opponents or is it all just "in-house"? There's nothing in the match threads to indicate a game is pending. With the Waratahs in Sydney first up you'd think some sort of hit-out would be needed to reinforce combinations.

There is a clear need for the Rugby to start when the Waratahs thread is clogged up with discussions about financial planning companies. Bring the season forward to Feb 1 I say!

The lengths people are going to get around the prohibition for senior coaches to be coaching on the field is getting pretty ludicrous. The coaching staff are supposed to do their job during the week and at oranges. Having them run on at every breakdown just to give someone a rev-up or advise...

Rebels lead 33-21 at the end of the third quarter, with three tries in the 3rd.

Really poor is an understatement. Buffering and distortion make it really hard to listen and I keep hearing bits of it on repeat. The commentator is more interested in the "colour" commentary than describing what's happening. Latest score I got was 12-5 Waratahs with a kick by McKibben to come...