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Bloody stupid to limit the Sevens players NRC game time IMO. High quality gametime is good for everyone, and particularly if the squads are all still doing evening training, it wouldn't get in the way of the Sevens training.

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Looking forward to this coming World Series. Few coaching and playing changes about, more Womens tourneys. Plus Argentina, Canada, Japan, Russia, Samoa and Scotland all competing for 4 Automatic spots in the Sevens World Cup.

Mostly joking. Little bit serious. Quite a few are switching from back row to hooker, both at Juniors and Seniors. Stuart McInally and Fraser Brown are best 23 hookers at Edinburgh & Glasgow respectively, but also play Blindside and Openside, once again respectively, as part of Squad...

The modern hooker needs to be able to play back row.

Should be good.

Horwitz must have friends in high places. Early in the year (might have been after round 1 tbh) Rugby 360 were doing Wallaby Bolter of the week or something because Cheika was on the show, and while he talked Hodge, which was the obvious choice given he'd played 3 positions, scored 2 tries and...

Good then injured with a head knock for the last ~3 weeks.

Right. Left Hand Fend is stronger. Right to left pass is Stronger, Right hand offload is stronger. Plus Right Wing/Right Center is where he played all his League Career.

He's wrong. But lineout dominant backrower works.

Higgers won't be eligible till the end of the Japanese Season. Deal needs to be 2 years long and even then they can play only after they return to Australia, the regular season doesn't stop till mid January.

With no inside knowledge, my guess would be that we were in talks with both him and Mafi, then Higgers eventually said something along the lines of "If I do come back, I'd like to play in Queensland again." Then we fully committed to signing Mafi.

Meh. Teams like the Lions, Wasps, Glasgow and Connacht play high quality attacking styles in the very conservative British/South African style of play/leagues. Within 2 tries either way is still a crapshoot as to who wins Any more than that and you still don't win, well then, your discipline...

Being able to walk is massive though. If you're talking about living in Burwood or Glen Waverley, then yeah, Broncos over quins every day of the week. Being able to walk down with the kid and the gear rather than having to deal with car shit, especially if there's smaller ones is so valuable...

We'll just have to win so the final can be in Sydney. What a sad unfortunate circumstance. It was never my desire.

6 Nations yes. RFU and the Pro12 Unions were saying that after the World Cup, they'd potentially push the club season back ~4 weeks to get the Super Rugby and British Seasons finishing at the same time, for a window with better flow. The counterpoint to that of course was that Outbound tours...

Fundamentally, the RFU and FFR have come out and said they're happy to do Six Nations Part 2 instead of the June and November windows. Lucky for you blokes the Pro12 and Premiership are talking about deferring the season to align the end of the British Rugby Seasons and Super Rugby.

They talk about South Africa, then Fiji in Bristol, then the French Barbarians.

Could always be an arsehole and take Tupai off us. Or slightly more realistically, Rowan Perry.

A longer NRC is a good idea, it'd just require a bit of a more significant buy in from both Clubs and Super sides. Play the first round robin through the last part of the Super Season overlapping with the June window, take a break for Super/Club Finals, then play the second round robin during...