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Are you sure you want him up there tranquility? He said the other day that he always went for Blues in the State of Origin and he had a hard time up there in the past few years because everybody knew it. Better to send the traitors back down south. Absolutely; Wilko always practised...

What we do not discuss enough when talking about who is a good team, or the favoured team, or whatever, is the big picture of a team. We are too fond of talking about the spectacular or interesting things Goal kicking or kicking from hand—in particular: doing so with the left foot—is part of...

McKibbin was one of the best goal-kickers in the comp in 2012. I kept track of every kick at goal of every player in 2012, something I promised myself I would never do again. He was over 80% for most of the season for those who kicked over 40 attempts, or some number like that and he took...

The blog is here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/waratahs-spots-up-for-grabs-in-albury/ As usual, if you have any comments on the blog please do so there and not here. Thanks LG .

I haven't seen him but I asked Darryl Gibson about who the goal kickers were going to be and he said Mehrtens was going to coach them. He will probably help them to decide. No doubt the candidates will all "have a shot" at the job in the trial games as part of the decision. As I have mentioned...

How time goes by. They were ramping up the training for the trip to Albury today. According to J Lance he and Horne are the contenders for inside centre - didn't say so in so many words but he didn't mention anybody else as his rival, only Rob. Folau is not training anywhere but fullback...

This is something that I missed entirely: http://www.waratahs.com.au/NSWRugby/News/NewsArticle/tabid/374/ArticleID/9312/Default.aspx Did anybody watch these live streaming matches last year? Did they have commentary or was it only the officials talking to the players and each other—or...

He is a natural number eight who is a line bender but he has a problem with managing the pick-up at the back of the scrum. Most of the times that the ball is scrappy in that area, it is not the fault of the 8, but others manage the problem better than Lopeti does. The other thing I noticed at...

Agree, Zacker has the best pass in Oz probably, but Burgess is of the Mike Phillips 9th defending forward school, who does not mind taking the ball up the middle in traffic like Phillips either. The game of Burgess is more important if your forwards are not going places. On the other hand...

They certainly would have a longer history as they started in 1863. If that last match was anything to go by it's going to be worth watching so I hope that they get a good crowd for the club's sake. Agree Bruce, they will take it very seriously and all the more this year. The Shute Shield...

So Easts played in that game too? I saw it—I think it was a curtain-raiser before a Tahs v Crusaders match. It was a good game of footie and Easts deserved their win. .

Easts shouldn't worry too much about losing players from their first grade team because Sydney Uni will have barely any of theirs. I don't know who will be in their best first XV in 2014 but of the XV that ran-on in the 2013 Grand Final for Uni: - 12 played Super Rugby last year (a majority...

Thanks for posting that Benched. I saw Barker in that opening game of the season and the Harry Jones-Tyson Davis combo was deadly—but that was frequently after the forwards had sucked in defenders and made their job easier. They were good forwards: not that big but hard workers, like...

We knew already that Argentina would be in the PRC for the first time but there are a few odd looking games in there that are probably not part of the PRC itself. Usually the visitors have been playing in Oz and NZ and the Anzac teams did not gain points because only the visitors points...

My mistake - I thought it was for this year and that his contract had expired, not would expire later this year.

Cheika has said that he is after a prop and a hooker for the available contract and EPS spots; so I can't see Fifita fitting in there. You never know though: maybe that's the reason why here has been a delay in resolving this issue because Fifita has been denying the rumours for a month now...

I asked a question of the ARU about Jets' idea (in comments about the Under 20s blog) of live streaming their games and I got this answer. We are in the process of negotiating a live streaming platform with YouTube. This should be in operation shortly for matches and events throughout the...

Yesterday I put up a blog of what details are known about the the National Rugby Championship at the moment here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/new-aussie-competitions-part-iii-national-rugby-championship/ As usual: if you have any comments about what is in the blog please make them...

Famously so: it was in the "Battle of Nantes", in the mid-80s. He got a kick in the balls and it peeled the scrotum of one of his nuts. He also lost some teeth. He got the zambuck to stitch his nutsack up and he went back on the park. Hard bastard. .

These things including the Falefa tweet were mentioned in the thread last week. As I mentioned then about Falefa, Roach and the two vacant spots: they will use a separate press conference to make a big deal about it as they did when they contracted young Tolu Latu. As I said: I wouldn't be...