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Auggies looked the best team of the four by some margin especially in the 2nd half, but Marist might have been affected by the bus trip. The Marist coaching staff were whingeing about the Sydney referee having pre-conceived ideas and I thought they were dudded a few times but no doubt Auggies...

Outstanding work Braveheart. I would have had Robinson and Cummins in. Also probably Fardy starting instead of Simmons, because Mowen can do the calls. .

Etc etc Where do you get these cumulative figures from Ash? The only one I know of is where the top ten, or something like that, is listed per category.

Is now official. Quote by Link: “When we picked the team we didn’t spend one minute looking at how many Test caps a player had or the number of debutants. It was picked on performance over a sustained period of time and on how we want to play the game,” McKenzie said. “The fact that five...

Here is the media release about Grey. *********************** Waratahs Rugby Media Release Thursday August 15, 2013 Nathan Grey to join NSW Waratahs coaching team Nathan Grey will return to NSW to join the Waratahs’ coaching team for the 2014 Super Rugby season. One of the state’s most...

Yeah WTG. This ends the discussion of the sanctions against the players. Remember - there is a Schoolboys Rugby Violence thread where everything can be discussed so long as people are civil. It just has to be separated from the 'normal' thread - so please don't mix it up even if you think...

Yeah - Auggies looked really good though they tried a bit too much razzle dazzle sometimes. Oakhill had some good moments but the scoreline was skewed by intercept tries against Knox at the start and end of the game (= 14 points) otherwise Knox would have had a sniff. Auggies have some good...

The stationary position is key to the change even if it is for a brief moment. I wish the referees would pay more attention to this matter than the two refs in Argentina did - especially the second one. I thought the bind on the 'bind' command should have been longer so there was not so much...

Well, now the team is out and weeks of speculation are over. Those who look at the results of Super teams and make a forensic comparison of the number of players each team "gets" in the national team will be happier than they have been. There is always a lot of interest invested when a new...

NSW Rugby Union Media Release Wednesday August 14, 2013 Sydney Uni and Newington to stage 150-year rugbyre-enactment Sydney University Rugby Club will celebrate 150 years of Australian rugby with a historic re-enactment at Saturday’s Bledisloe Cup match. The exhibition match against...

Marist faded badly in the second half. The bus trip could have been a factor as Wood Rat mentioned, but the Auggies forwards would have been another one. Should be a good final. Charlie Taylor will be back for Auggies.

Yeah the scrummaging angle is interesting . I can't imagine that being a decent LHP for his age would have done Latu any harm in scrummaging as a hooker. I have nothing against Roach but his lineout throwing. He's a hard young player. .

What school Iluv??

Volvo - Agree, he is an outside back who can play flyhalf from the bench, if needed, but probably won't be unless there is a butcher's bill. And as you indicate, Horwitz should be in the EPS – and be 3rd string flyhalf. He won't be too young. Even if Horwitz had played in the early rounds...

He played 7 for Qld I and Oz Schools in 2005. I remembered his playing for Oz Schools v Japan at Scots and the Japanese lads side-stepped him. But this wasn't when they had the ball, it was when Pocock had the ball: he terrified them, as TPN did at the same age in school rugby (as a...

I liked Jeremy Paul's method once when he tackled Jonah Lomu in Sydney. He got close enough running at an angle and jumped on his back, which was illegal, but he got away with it and the big guy went down, as I recall. But seriously, if the ball is kicked to Savea the chase has to be...

Good post, and some have argued that Simmons shouldn't even be in the matchday 23, but he has to be (though this is not to your point). I postulated last year that our lineout sergeant, Nathan Sharpe, would be a huge loss for the Wobs in 2013 and since his retirement there has been no...

I'm glad that Charlie got a gig in one of the codes. I thought he was unlucky to miss out on the Oz A Schools Rugby Union side.

When the discussions turn nasty they will be muted - don't you worry - and it's always the same things: scholarships, rep selection bias, fights, refereeing decisions and anything about those matters that people saw, or thought they saw, or heard, or thought they heard - and someone objects to...

I can't remember when there was Bledisloe on when I was more gloomy. Maybe it was because of the Lions. We had three shockers last year, which is about average, but I was hoping our first one of 2013 wasn't going to be in the 3rd Lions test, but it was. Come to think of it: if you get the...