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Maybe I was a bit tough on Noddy, Scotty, but this thread illustrates well how people can be provoked into intemperate responses. So far in this one thread there have been fifteen separate posts which criticised Tom Carter; four negative posts for both Phil Waugh and Sosene Anesi; two for...

If the management of the Vale Hotel, Golf and Spa Resort is silly enough to leave their golf buggies laying around when they have a team of Welsh rugby players staying there, my only surprise is that there wasn't a convoy of buggies going past junction 33 of the M4.

No, JF, I don't share your jubilation and happiness about the problems of another sport. Rugby league is a very important part of the lives of large numbers of people in NSW and Queensland. Their commitment appears much stronger than that of most followers of our sport. Even someone as young...

"Appears to be incorrect". In exactly what way, Scotty? Have you bothered to visit the site fatprop directed us to to see whether I was wrong? I have gone back and checked and every number I used is still there. Not one of the numbers Noddy quoted are there. There was no "effort at an...

It was fatprop's link that I went to, Noddy. They certainly must do some heavy revising of stats on that site.

Do you deliberately post nonsense, Noddy, or just have difficulty reading or comprehending figures? "According to those stats" Cooper attempted 5 tackles and missed 2. Carter attempted 11 and missed 1. Just to reinforce the point 2 is not the same as 1. Let's have a look at the 8 Australian...

Moses, I would answer your question with a question: Is it easier to keep a vehicle rolling forward by pushing it or to stop it from rolling towards you by pushing against it? Momentum very obviously favours the attacking team once the maul starts to move. There is also the problem for the...

I'm having one of those mornings.Twice I've posted tongue in cheek comments and been taken literally: To which NTA responds: I naively thought that the exaggeration would have given a clue that the comment was not meant literally.

But, in fairness, Joubert may have taken account of the amount of force generated. Bit like the difference between being run over by a road train and being bumped by an old lady on a mobility scooter.

By Aussie I assume he means white Anglo-Saxon or Celt. Sixty-five years of creating a multicultural society and some of them still don't get it.

Sorry, Joey, I just couldn't resist the opportunity.

There you go; even a Leaguie understands the dynamics of back row play.

Marvellous, isn't it? On a day when the sun is shining, the birds are tweet-tweeting their heads off, Tommy's in his Heaven, all's right with the world; on this day of all days, wj decides to turn on me: Who gives a bugger whether it's attack or defence; on every scrum the No. 8 should be...

Settle, Lee. You were obviously feeling left out because this particular discussion gave you no opportunity to display your encyclopaedic knowledge of every rugby player who ever laced a boot on.

As you probably noted, Scarfman, I said in relation to the plan to switch, "Fair enough". What I was attacking was Hickey's reasoning for doing it. The Australian disrespect for forceful scrummaging and seeming lack of understanding of the biomechanics involved exposes us to ridicule...

Today's Australian carries a most extraordinary article by Bret Harris titled "Waratahs to try Phil Waugh at No 8". Apparently coach Chris Hickey proposes switching positions in the scrum between Phil Waugh and Wycliff Palu "in different situations on the field." Fair enough, but it is his...

If that were indeed the case, Doc, then there would be a high degree of correlation between excessive skin folds and superior strength. From my observations I don't think this is so. Players that appear to be wearing at least a couple of padded vests - which by the way is outlawed by the IRU -...

Your comment, Spook, is marred by a couple of generalisations. Just as not all "Tah coaches" are "eminent", so not all Waratah supporters are "shirt-lifters". Some, for example, are female; others are essentially private people who choose not to have their religious, political or social...

Perhaps Brumbies supporters are not as rugby-cognizant as I would have assumed. It's a bit of a worry when those on the franchise's mailing list have to be told that Jersey 1 is worn by the loosehead prop and Jersey 2 by the hooker.

I think the en force er might have meant "jump on an ergo".