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The game (or two?) where I thought Hunt played 10 they seriously played 9 man rugby.

Random aside, just saw the biggest blunder from a ref I have ever seen, in rugby or league. Marshall takes a quick tap, runs 40m, then gets tackled by Gillet. Ref sends Gillet to the sin bin for being offside, after the guy has run 40m. While Gillet is off the field, the Dragons come back...

And it will be owned by the Sheinhardt Wig Company, no doubt.

Douglas is being rested, hamstring niggle I think.

That AB lock pairing I think will go down as one of the best ever. Retallick is just a freak.

Also surprised that no-one has mentioned how Link is using Skelton off the bench - he is coming on for a backrow (either Palu or Fardy), not a lock.

According to ESPN stats: Retallick made 7/0, Whitelock 12/1, Messam 7/2, McCaw 9/2, Read 7/1. Simmons made 8/1, Carter 2/1, Fardy 4/1, Hooper 9/4, Palu 11/1. Simmons may have faults, but his tackling is not one of them - he is consistently up near the top, and rarely misses more than 1...

Very strong Spirit team, should account for an injury-depleted City team. So the Spirit will supposedly only be playing some of the Force players at home games. Anyone know the full story?

Seems that City are loading up on the injury list already. Off the top of my head..... Injured forwards: Browning, Schatz, Gill, Faagese (?) (sure I spelt that wrong) Backs: Genia, Cooper, Turner, Tapuai, Va'aulu (?) I am sure that some of the rotation, e.g. THP, is so the coaches get a look...

Godwin is coming back from a long injury lay off, and wasn't in good form (apart from defensively) before he was injured anyway. I wouldn't expect much of him for a few games yet.

Quirk is injured, out till next year or so.

If Carter had brought has kicking boots in 2010, there would have been! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Tri_Nations_Series#New_Zealand_vs_Australia.2C_Christchurch But your point is good.

If true, thing just got very interesting indeed. Could be very embarassing for the Reds. Will be interesting to see what happens. What have Toulon said publicly so far?

If we get Chabal (and Kotze) instead of Vito, I think I will just sit quietly and depressedly staring out into space, whilst also pondering how insane the Reds recruitment must get before I start seriously querying my membership.

I posted it elsewhere, but here's a link to the ARU's upload of NRC games to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9_ssxku-NI-JwEE5COFsmbs9GBTyzJMf

Try this for a start: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9_ssxku-NI-JwEE5COFsmbs9GBTyzJMf

Tallis has said a few things about rugby now that makes it clear he watches it, and has watched it for a while. Which has totally surprised me, as I would've thought he just would've said an odd snide remark and left it at that.

Interesting that someone mentioned MMM. Have an annecdote about they normally regard rugby from the last weekend. Heard a bit of their radio program on Saturday, with some of the random hosts (Girdler, Sailor, Maroon (main host), and one other) all talking. "One other" was asked if he had...

Problem is that the Tahs have very little control over this stuff - it's all the SCG Trust and the guys they've franchised out to that run the catering places. I hope that the tenants of the SFS band together and get something done, because the amount of money they pay to rent the venue, plus...

As you inferred, the club itself had a load of money. There was a period (~80s?) where they would continually buy the best talent available from all around the country. Hence why they were hated and other supporters people celebrated Manly not winning during that period (and after, fans of...