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Maybe there's another one at Randwick. But seriously—just wait for Placid in a year or two. Think of of a young Billy Slater playing our code, and that's Jonah Placid. .

Call me sentimental if you like, but I think it would be a sad thing if such a great player lost both of his real names—and all because of Hollywood. .

"Make their bones"—love it. .

Wales v Italy This was a good effort by Italy with three 20-year-olds in their backline. One of them, 13. Campagnaro, is a future star, and he deserved his man-of-the-match award playing for a losing side. There's not much of him, just scrumhalf size, but he's not afraid to tackle and has an...

This from AAP ***************** The Melbourne Rebels reaped the rewards of a tough pre-season as they surged home to overcome the NSW Waratahs 33-28 on Saturday in their Super Rugby trial. With the temperature hitting plus-40 degrees at Albury Sports Ground and the game played in quarters...

From the Tahs Media Unit. ***************** NSW Waratahs get season underway in Albury 2/02/2014 By Waratahs Rugby Media Unit NSW Waratahs 28 – 33 Melbourne Rebels Super Rugby trial match, Albury The NSW Waratahs last night completed their Waratahs Volvo Community Roadshow with an...

[Not to the point: but is Wilkin recovered from his surgery?] I've seen Gunn, Big Faka and Wilkin play and they were superb at the Schools level but let's see these lads first, selected, and second, play, in the semi-pro NRC, with and against good players, before we decide how good they may be...

Info on the trial teams from AAP. I wouldn't read too much into it; nor into the score, for that matter. I'm sure that Beale, Foley and Volavola will all get a shot at both 10 and 15. ****************** KURTLEY Beale will get first crack at five-eighth for NSW Waratahs when they tackle...

It would only be part-time. Mehrtens works in the city for financial planners and his boss gets a bit of time off to do other stuff; so there's no reason why he shouldn't too. His CEO is Phil Kearns. The firm has just been sold; so you never know they might both be out of a job but the new...

This is the Tahs media release about Mehrtens ******************** Tahs back All Black legend Mehrtens to kick start season All Black legend Andrew Mehrtens has joined the NSW Waratahs coaching staff as kicking coach. Now working in Sydney, the Canterbury player who kicked his way into the...

I agree with TOCC about the potential of Browning, but I think Gill will be captain two years from now—and I wouldn't be surprised if his big rival, Michael Hooper, is the Tahs' captain then also. .

I don't know if he is the second coming, but I think he will captain Queensland, and sooner than we think, also. .

Kerouac wrote and said the same message many times in different forms. The quote I used is my favourite version of this theme of his. Didn't know that Apple used one version of it. It's good, isn't it? .

I'll take that as a compliment—yeah, he could write couldn't he? He wrote one of my favourite quotes warning that people should be careful who they pretended to be, because they were who they pretended to be. Vonnegut and Kerouac, who both wrote about people and their problems after WWII...

There's a bit of that lot of that with Wales' players going to France isn't there? Gethin Jenkins couldn't get a decent game at Toulon with old stager Andrew Sheridan there, and couldn't get home quickly enough—and Mike Phillips played like Neville Nobody…and so on. It was hard to believe...

From a few weeks ago: Toulon v Grenoble Round 16 This was a cracking game which was supposed to be a walkover but wasn't. Toulon is now a rugby powerhouse under its eccentric owner Mourad Boudjellal, and was in the Top 14 final last year. In this home game they started ex-Super players...

Ulster v Munster Ulster kick the ball through and 11. Gilroy of Ulster and 12. Dineen of Munster are both going for the ball. Gilroy runs a bit in front of Dineen, and Dineen pushes him aside and gets the ball. But it looks like interference on Gilroy and a penalty is given to Ulster. Alain...

It's early days for him but if you don't want him send him down to Sydney; we'll have a Volvo waiting at the border. Browning turned 20 last October; so people should not be too critical of him, after all, he was the Australian Under 20 player of the year in 2013. I saw him in 2009 at the...

The Tahs have spent more time at breakdown work than any other element of the game. In the pre-season they have spent more time at it than they did by the same time in 2013 and 2102—in fact I saw little ruck work at all last year before the first trial, though I'd only see one session a week...

You're right, leadership is one of the important attributes that there are no stats on and we don't talk about a lot. The Tahs don't have a lot of natural captains in their team and the one guy who is won't be a regular starter—Pat McCutcheon—but off the field he has some presence with them as...