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Surely it's just a commonly held beleif that Feao Fotuaika should be playing 9?

Great article in the Brisbane Times talking to Wright about his injury struggles: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/rugby-union/a-four-year-crisis-threatened-to-break-liam-it-s-set-to-be-his-making-20230828-p5e00g.html Really impressive attitude from him. Looks set to return to full...

Dupont is well on his way, probably just needs this World Cup to get him there.

I would normally agree but given he's been picked for the Barbarians and that is basically an extension of the Australian setup this year it seems unlikely. If he was on the shit list for turning them down I don't think there's anyway he'd get near that Barbarians side. I think there was...

It's a little blurry with cocaine because it can be considered recreational or performance enhancing, depending on when it was used. It might be an argument they can use to reduce the length of any ban he incurs, but I'm not sure how much difference it'll make in the end. Given his age and...

It's also used in cutting recreational drugs like cocaine and apparently is detectable in the system well afterwards.

Thrilling finish and Brothers hang on to win it, holding Wests up at the death. Wests will regret pulling Gordon during the yellow card period, having to try and score a winner without a fly half (and maybe no place kicker?) was just a step too far. Huge game from Wilson, Fraser and Ryan for...

Wests have pulled Mason Gordon off to get a halfback on while Sorovi is off with a yellow card. Not sure if they realise he can't come back on after the card is done.

Wilson gets his in the second half, levels the score and gives Creighton the chance to take the lead, which he does.

A lineout maul try to brother's shortly after means it's not too significant, though Creighton surely wouldn't have missed the easier conversion if Wilson's try was given.

Has been a phenomenal half from Wests, but Harry Wilson was robbed of a try under the posts there.

Can't speak to Sydney but Redcliffe would likely be a dud as far as Brisbane is concerned. I doubt you'd get enough there to cover the cost of turning the lights on. Would be better off going to the sunshine coast proper at that stage and engaging the crowd who showed up when the NRL relocated...

A portion of it, but it's not yet clear exactly who. The word previously was about 15 of them with the rest mostly made up of Japanese players, but I'm not sure how concrete that is.

Assuming the uni teams are out because their structure is not well suited to a shift to professionalism, Brothers (North), Easts, Souths and West's makes a lot of sense as the selection from Brisbane and it is timed well with them taking 4 of the top 5 spots. I don't know Sydney as well but...

The worst thing to happen to the all blacks this cycle was ScoBar playing some really good rugby in between the absolute brainless offences, he's gone and made himself an indispensable cog in the team who's even money to blow a game with an ill-advised attempted decapitation.

Trevor Hosea to Suntory Sungoliath

It looks like direct to the head for mine, against a man on the ground makes it significantly worse. It's something Barrett has form for and I'd rate it as worse than his hit on Hooper 4 years ago. I can't see how they mitigate it out if it does go to the judiciary, but I also can't see how the...

Not a comment on the specific politics, more a comment on the dependency upon a third party with their own own goals and motivations (the charity of a billionaire is not really much different in my mind). Unless the actual operations are offering a sound foundation it can all disappear in...

A state government famous for sticking to their commitments around sports funding/events....

Surely Barrett's second yellow should have been a straight Red. I'm pretty sure a technical red still sees an automatic trip to the judiciary though, would've thought he'll be out for the entire pool stage at least.