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Prematch Reds v Sharks James Horwill (about Ed Donoghue) something like: "He can be a bit of a prick at the breakdown." Leinster v Ospreys Lions' players Alun Wyn Jones of Ospreys and Sean O'Brien of Leinster were having a series of disagreements on the field. Referee Nigel Owens brought...

Oops - Thanks, the ITS stats are wrong - I usually use them because my memory isn't the best. I knew he was in the 22, and thought he had played, but when I checked, they had him as not playing - and I thought I'd had a senior moment: http://www.itsrugby.co.uk/game-91204.html They never...

I'm not sure what Cheika thinks about Chapman but I reckon he might have gone off him. He started in his 2nd and 3rd games — against the Rebels and Brumbies — but his minutes since then have dwindled from half an hour down to zero against the Bulls, though he was on the bench at Loftus. He...

Disagree with that, though not so much when all the (non-Wallaby) Super players are back playing after a few weeks recovery from the Super Rugby season, but that is not a heap of weeks as a proportion to the number of rounds. The ITM Cup is short (last year teams played only 10 pool games each) and is...

Amen to the Amen. I've seen Kurtley Beale play the game since he was 13 years old, but I can remember just one kick with his left foot, and that was charged down. Berrick Barnes is fairly decent as a lefty. And whilst I'm talking about him: you'd think he would have been exactly the type of...

PS - It has been good to see Crawford playing well. He's was one of those good club players that you weren't really sure about: was he good enough for Super Rugby or not? You can never be sure until they actually play in a Super game, but the Kiwis, with their ITM Cup, and especially the South...

He had a great game didn't he; but Foley should not be judged for test rugby on how he played against a team like the Kings were the other night. He should be judged on how he played against the Bulls, or similar tough opponents. Judge him in the next two games against the Stormers and...

None - but Matt knows his rugby that's for darn sure. Knox fans should give it time. I'm sure his brief is for the whole school not just the Ones; so maybe we'll see a difference later on as younger players emerge having been coached well from a younger age. .

None of them are complete photos. They are my photos and I cropped all of them, then scaled what was left down. So now they are about 120K only in size (to reduce them for the blog); so you couldn't print them and put them on the mantlepiece. They are tiny. I don't keep the originals as...

I wrote a blog on the game at Knox yesterday, with some pics, here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/cas-barker-thrash-knox/ rtd32 - could you please have a look at it and let me know if you can see any boo-boos so I can change them. Cheers LG

Yeah - it was a gala day as well as the start of the footie season. Agree with the comments of the two teams. Harry Jones lived up to the hype at fullback for Barker - not only on his own account but also to set up other players. I was impressed by him last year - including his cameo for Oz...

There is a preview of the game included in the blog I wrote here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/preview-aussie-matches-in-round-12/

There's a review of the game in a blog I wrote here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/preview-aussie-matches-in-round-12/

Foley is still basically a Sevens player. He plays well close to the tackle line, can put guys through gaps if they aimed themselves right and he can surprise opponents by running himself as he did at the Cake Tin. Now and then he does something useful with his foot like slotting a goal to...

FH is cursed by vesatility. In the test matches he started in last year Hougaard played on the wing half the time and scrumhalf for the other half. He would be better as a scrummie if he played there all the time to hone a few skills, as he would be as a winger just by always playing there...

The Reds are looking good aren't they? I like watching them play as I did the Brumbies when Larkham was in his pomp. The Reds are notionally in the lead because the Brumbies haven't played as I write this. The standard table is a poor indication sometimes, but especially when some teams have...

Vermaak is starting the game; so they will have to watch him like a hawk. I've written a bit about him in a preview blog here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/preview-aussie-matches-in-round-11/ .

I remember Ruan as a schools player before he went back to South Africa and always wondered how he would do in pro rugby, so maybe we will see him in action sometime for the Brumbies, after getting 20 minutes total for the Force in a couple of games last year. He could do a bit of damage with...

Pete had a good game against the Cheetahs and had other fine dodgy moments but he has had a good run and it's time for Kingston to get another shot. No harm would have been done to Kingston, at his age, for being benched: it's part of growing up as a professional player. I like the way that...

A breach of team standards covers a lot of stuff from rodgering the missus of a club official to being late for training, which is a serious matter. The Force will miss Alfie because they lack firepower and X-factor in their backline at the best of times. It's good to see Godwin back after a...