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Was just switching the channels and found out that the Dubais Sevens is on live now - Day 1. Don't know any results.

Is this the fellow who was chosen for the Oz Under 20s earlier this year but in the end had to stay at home because of visa issues? I hear that he missed out because of injury but he was healthy when the Oz coach told me about the visa problems; so it could be a deflection. If this is the same...

Players have to prove themselves when they come back. If test Player A has been injured and backup Player B has been outstanding, I think it is up to Player A to show clear evidence that he will be superior in the next test match we have. And in this case, Player B (Hooper) has been...

No, it was told to me in confidence, and is just a left-field type of thing anyway that probably won't have legs. Not quite to the point: but I mentioned in 2012 when I saw Tolu Latu as a LHP in the Oz Under 20 team, that I wished he would be changed to hooker—and lo and behold he is one now...

Oz Schools will have a good chance against the two Ireland Schools teams. Their next best chance will be against the Ospreys Academy Under 18 players and the Scotland Academy Under 18. Most of the England Academy U/18 players will have been connected with Academy professional team even...

He was still training with them today. Cheika has one contract and one EPS spot left, and one will be a prop and the other a hooker—but is keeping his cards close to his chest. They are also looking at a couple of other players to convert to hooker as well, just quietly. .

They are some kind of cousin. - The grandfather of Wallaby Ben McCalman and - The great grandfather of Oz Schools captain Jack McCalman …… were brothers.

As I have mentioned many times - it is not an even playing field for that reason. Our Oz Schools teams do not play other schools teams unless by exception. This year they play against two schools Irish teams - but not for the "test match". .

He has a groin niggle.

I heard a whisper that some Foxsports staffers are interested in doing the games, or at least one game, on Thursday night because they are short on product then. Just a whisper. .

I think that Harry is safe for our code for the moment. He didn't go to schoolies and has been doing some training with the Waratahs Under 20 Academy and the Oz 7s hopefuls; so he was ready when he got the call to fly over to join the Oz Schoolboys tour. .

Green and Gold understands that Harry Jones is flying over tomorrow evening. Also scrummie Moses Sorovi is injured and could be returning home. .

I've already enquired about that for myself but no luck so far. The missus is still hoping for me though. .

There is news on that but it can't be released at the moment. .

It deserved a yellow card for stupidity, not for anything in the laws.

Exactly so. I was always waiting for Simmons to bring his schoolboy promise to the professional game and although he became a Reds regular starting player, and an on and off starting Wallaby, he was not convincing was he? He always had the skill of his school days but he didn't impose himself...

Exactly. On every tour they give a ration of games to all players and within that there is a ration of starting games for all players—which is how it should be for schoolboys. Obviously the better players get rationed more game time and more starting games, though obviously form can change...

Unbelievable game: Ireland ahead 19-0 at 18 mins; ahead 22-7 at oranges, can't score a point in the second half and the All Blacks coming back from the brink after Sexton had earlier missed a penalty to get Ireland eight points ahead instead of five. Then the try and the TMO looking at two...

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Harry Jones will do well in rugby union and I hope that he stays in our code. He is a good lad and has the potential to be a Super Rugby player if he gets through his first few years dealing with Colts and Grade. If he gets a gig in Sevens it will do him no harm to play on a big stage either...