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Cheika had a dig at his own captain on Thursday and I was one of only a few people to see it as I don't think it was included in the Fox Sports interview. I wonder if folks can find the quote. I didn't quote in it my piece but maybe one of the other people there did. Bottom line is that...

McAlister is on the outer in Toulouse. Toby Flood has announced that he is going there next year and with old stager Beauxis there already and the promising Barraque waiting for more chances, McAlister won't be needed. McAlister's contract hasn't been renewed. He is currently injured and...

I forgot to mention that there is some more training dribbling in a blog I did yesterday after Folau, Hooper and AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) were all back at training. http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/waratahs-folau-odds-on-to-start-at-fullback/ As usual, if you have any comments to make, please make them on the...

There is a blog up now about the new National Under 20 Championship. Its purpose is to act as a selection trial for the Oz squad to go to the IRB JWC later in the year. Of course, the training for the boys before they are selected in the three Aussie teams, and the trials they have to...

The first card in the second half, relating to the first penalty try, was at the 41st minute and the second card for the second penalty try was at 46 minutes; so Cardiff had only 13 men for five minutes. But the third penalty try was right at the end of the game and everybody was back on deck...

I wrote a bit about the thread subject in a blog of the Junior Gold Cup on page 2. http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/new-aussie-competitions-part-i-junior-gold-cup/ If you have any comments please make them in the blog. Thanks LG .

I forgot to reply to this. I don't think I have seen three penalty tries in one match, let alone three to the same team, let alone, three to the same team in one half. But I don't think that Cardiff can complain too much. They had obviously been warned before oranges because of the...

There is a link in the blog article if you look for it on page one, but the ARU have indicated a new opening date. I'm sure that folks on the thread can give us the correct date info closer to the opening. http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/new-aussie-competitions-part-i-junior-gold-cup/ It...

We'll have to wait for some bad weather because the change just happened last weekend and conditions were goodish. Incidentally the couple of artificial pitches are getting a big tick this winter as regards to fewer collapses in bad conditions compared to what they would have been otherwise...

I'm putting up a blog on the comp tomorrow, and it will have these details in it. 60 games of U17s and the same for U15s. Wow. Good hustle ARU. Each team is carrying out these activities to reduce the levy locally. I'm guessing that they would be training the guys and looking at them...

Agree - The power hit was one of the excuses for not enforcing the crooked feed, because often there was no tunnel to put the ball into. But now the power hit is no longer, the skew feed has to be cracked down on otherwise the convention of allowing crooked feeds will be reborn. As regards...

I thought he was too but I thought I was wrong when I saw him packing down at LHP at training, but I may have been mistaken about that too. Those things happen when you're 75. .

Yeah those are the only two contracted no. 7s though Lam could be drafted if there is an injury because he has had all the training content. Ryan Hodson from Eastern Suburbs has also been with the Invited Players. He goes OK and got on the park for the Melbourne Rebels last year, which is...

This would almost always be the case at this time of the year. Wow - I'm surprised that Falefa has been chosen, if that is correct. I would have picked Talakai ahead of him. I thought JF struggled to get around the field when he was training; so he'd have to have a problem with the pace of...

Not that strange really, if the whining is done by coaches. I am amazed at how pragmatic players are with such changes as these and also to changes of laws even. They just get on with the job—and it is their job, after all. But coaches have set up their systems to deal with the refereeing...

Somewhere on some thread where the new scrum engagement sequence was discussed, I said that I didn't like the way the referees were telling the scrummie when to put the ball in—"Yes 9 !!" The reason I didn't like it was because as soon as the the referee said "Yes 9" the opponents would...

No backs in there IS. They were combing their hair, somewhere else. It was interesting that Fat Cat (the player, not the forum member) took a couple of the scrum drills with the Invited Players involved. TPN also had a bit to say. Cheika himself did the bulk of the scrum coaching: he goes...

He hasn't been seen at Tahs practice for a while. I understand that his missus had trouble with a pregnancy or birth, but I never followed it up. .

You could be right Bruce. They seemed to have trouble with this first scrummaging effort on Thursday. . . .

Yeah there is no use practising scrums without the heavies there. Maybe they had scrums the days I wasn't there, but it was the same last year and the year before. Not many technical lineout sessions either - just more starting training moves from the lineouts. General skills has been the...