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I've seen a copy of the proposed draw for 2013 and below are the major points. Season to start on 6 April Full comp bye on 22 June (for Lions Test in Brisbane) Full comp bye on 27 July (Super Rugby Semi Final weekend) Grand Final 8 September Earlier start to the year and earlier finish. I like...

With McCabe out Deans may actually have to implement an attacking game plan. I'd love to see Tapuai play 12 but can see advantages in Barnes or Harris playing there. Harris is a 12 and nothing else so it would do him good to play there.

The difference between the Super teams of 2011 and 2012 is that all of the best players had to go through the RWC and had any confidence from the previous season taken away from them. Deans is the man who lead that campaign and the buck has to stop with him. The thing about basic skills is...

RUPA wouldn't go for it and they currently have a lot of power.

Mark Reason normally isn't my cup of tea but he nails it in that article. It's almost to the point that I want the Wallabies to loose so that Deans gets canned. I have nothing against the playing group but there seems to be no direction from above. It's been that way for a while now and it has...

He went back to Sydney after he was cut by the Reds. Not sure what he's up to these day. Would have thought OS might have been an option.

How is it too late to change now? The new coach will have 6 months to get things in place before the Lions tour. Surely that is plenty of time. If Deans goes after the Lions tour the new guy only gets 4 weeks before the Rugby Championship. It could be argued that that wouldn't be enough time so...

I think he should go. Even after the Puma and AB's game I wanted him to go. He doesn't seem to have a coaching style at all. When he started it was all about fast wingers who could be put into space, like Peter Hynes, but before the RWC last year he changed all of that seemed to want to crash...

Welcome Cutoutpass. I too have cause to be optimistic in regards to this game, unfortunately off the back of the English and not our good form.Not sure about Gill at 6 but it's worth a shot as Dennis isn't showing his Super form from the start of the year.

The ARU could set up a project through the Australian Sports Foundation that would allow them to take tax deductible donations for development projects. http://www.asf.org.au/

I'm expecting pretty much the same team to play as last week and we'll manage a draw or a narrow win/loss. Here is the team I'd like to see named. 1. Robinson - No other option really 2. Moore - Thought he was good once he came on 3. Alexander - Kepu didn't work 4. Douglas - Was ok 5. Sharpe...

George is a fantastic guy who was an integral part of the Premier squad at Sunnybank this year. He was consistently one of the best on field whenever he played. He was also a valuable club man away from the field too with many of the players gravitating to be around him. He is undertaking his...

From what I hear, from a few players, Jordan is coming to Sunnybank next year. He has been telling players at Sunnybank he is coming and apparently has told Pat Richards. I don't know how many games he would be available for as 7's duties will have him tied up quite a bit. I'd expect him to...

My thinking was more about showing the prerecorded QF's and then you could show the semi's and final live, although I didn't state that in my post. Then it would create some interest in the finals and give the networks more content in the shorter time period.

Rex is a PT so I think he would be able to fit clients in around his training. All of them will be sacrificing work opportunities to take part in this but I am sure all of them are happy to as the reward for being picked up would be a massive carrot.

I like the idea p.Tah and would support it if it came off. Another option would be to hold the event over 2 days and sell broadcasting rights in a 2 hour package that could show the QF's, SF's and final for the men's and women's. This way we would be able to use the tournaments for conditioning...

The quote is from this article from Sheedy. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/afl/afls-answer-to-rugby-sevens/story-e6frexwr-1225860354628

Because he was more value to the teams he played for at 10. Any coach that moved him to 9 would have been laughed at as his footwork was his greatest strength and its effect would have been reduced at the back of rucks.

If you look at it a "Rugby" channel would make a lot of sense. There is a heap of content that would keep people interested for 12 months of the year. If you had the rights to Heineken Cup, Premiership, Top 14, Rabo Direct Cup, ITM Cup, Currie Cup, Super Rugby, 6 Nations, Rugby Championship, IRB...

I agree Stu. If they do go down the track of a 7's series I think that they should incorporate the current tournaments like Noosa, Byron, Darwin, Central Coast etc and add tournaments in Melbourne, Tassie and Adelaide. Have a 8-10 tournament series with maybe 10 core teams and then open up the...