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Three successive posts: This tendency to bring kids through prematurely really annoys me. Let him enjoy his nappy stage in peace. And anyway, at 13 months he's far too young to be heading off overseas.

So Horne was the third best 'Tahs player - on the basis of 10 minutes of game time? Presumably because of one impressive run from an unmarked position - and guess who put him into space?

Are you sure you're not making this up as you go along, wj? My mail was very different to this. I think that the upheaval had much more to do with treachery - toward more than one participant - than an obsession with cost cutting, although God knows the finances were in a mess. And similarly...

As distinct from the previous two weeks when an established test player clearly exhibited "a decent tactical game to get them out of their own half", eh, Gagger? Personally I didn't think the plugger from Clubland suffered by comparison.

The classic five-eighth is primarily a quarterback - to use modern terminology - who has a fairly complete range of skills and the ability to make appropriate decisions and execute under critical pressure of time and space. The other defining aspect of the great five-eighths, no matter how...

My view is that he is the most complete five-eighth in the classical sense in the country. He has all the skills for the position plus the cool head necessary for the quarterbacking role so he would make a good addition to the Wallabies squad. IIRR he played some A games in 2008.

Bugger the 'Tahs, it is his natural playing style which he developed as a Colt. All that the Waratahs, post-Todd Louden, can lay claim to is that they trained it out of him. Or maybe credit for that lies with the Wallabies. Either way, thank God he's rediscovered it.

Actually, NTA, it was much later when Uni were threatened with exclusion. Your confusion over the decade may have been because of prior events. In 1978 and 1979 and again in 1983 Sydney Uni were relegated to Second Division, but fought their way back. Given the Club's current dominance it is...

Re: 2010 NSW Club Rugby Interesting development at Penrith with Uni's Colts Technical Director from last year, Nick Ryan, and Wallaby Al Kanaar assisting Penrith's Colts this year: http://penrith-press.whereilive.com.au/sport/story/bolstered-penrith-emus-to-push-rugby-s-cause/ Ryan and Kanaar...

Could I just make a comment here in the spirit of friendship? Firstly, I would make the point that I do not speak on behalf of the rugby club at Sydney Uni. I am President of their parent body, Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness. Given that I post under my own name and make no secret of my...

I've been scratching my head about that one too, topo, trying to work out which position Uni was so desperately short in that they deliberately triggered a bidding war with Gordon. In doing so they would run the risk of the Club's existing players starting to put their hands up to be paid. I...

No, thatguy, I did not forget Luke Burgess. He was not an outsider, he simply came back to the Club where it all started for him. He started in 3rd Colts at Uni and worked his way up until he was offered a contract with the Brumbies. I do know better than most people what happened with him...

You're on to me like a flash, aren't you Lindommer? I thought I could get away with an obviously misleading statement that "in 2009 Uni fielded teams in the State Championships at Under 13, Under 15 and Under 16 levels". But you shot me down by pointing out that your student son had "NEVER seen...

The issues are David Campese and Berrick Barnes joining Sydney Uni. I have no idea of the circumstances leading to Campese deciding to coach at Uni. But with regard to his previously announced proposed involvement this year with Parramatta, the obvious places to direct enquiries would be either...

I think that TheRiddler's rather subtle point was that had Alexander been there he would have "had a woeful night and collapsed at every opportunity "; whereas PhucNgo is suggesting that had Alexander been there and the scrum was collapsing at every opportunity, it wouldn't have been his fault...

Now I'll die content. I've read it all. There are no more surprises left in life.

Well I got a good chance to see the Hickey system of scrummaging at work last night. I've seen it and it doesn't work. At least we know that Hickey wasn't taking the piss when he said that at eight "you are not pushing". The Hickey answer to the Argentinian bajadita does indeed involve the...

It is true, rw, that Sydney Uni will not be able to field a side nearly as strong as their Grand Final team given that 30 odd players have franchise - contract or Academy - or Aussie Sevens commitments. But I suppose the same applies to some extent to Brothers. Rest assured that Sydney Uni will...

Langthorne, I have also been critical of the 'Tahs in this game. Some of my criticism has been posted on this site and some conveyed privately. I agree with what you have included under "tactics" and "attitude". In mitigation I think the forwards were put off their game by the French style...

I agree, Ash, that it has to be coaching related. I had a strong sense of the déjà vus all over again watching ball being butchered in an eerily similar manner to last year. The only time that the ball started to be moved through the hands was when Holmes and Hangers were on. I'm still a big...