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Versatility would be Hodge's biggest asset in coming off the bench. He's played virtually all the backline positions bar scrum half and wing this season, and he was supposed to play on the wing in the opening game.

GB sides named for the first of 4 tournaments. GB Royals Cory Allen 
Tom Bowen Alex Davis Jamie Farndale
 Alex Gray Warwick Lahmert Ollie Lindsay-Hague Ruaridh McConnochie Luke Morgan Scott Riddell Joe Simpson Luke Treharne (C) Fixtures (all times in BST with a live stream available...

Forgot to mention the Nations Cup, which is taking place instead of the Tbilisi Cup what with Georgia on tour. Romania, Spain and Emerging Italy will take on the Argentine XV, Namibia and Uruguay. In 2 pools where nobody plays another opponent within the pool. Interesting format 9th June...

Shitey games are often good ones when you win. See Newcastle 2012. :D

I deliberately not commented on this one until that comment. It's a discussion in the club rugby threads, NRC threads and heck, specific threads on the general discussion forum. You were rightfully celebrating a qualitaty product of the state/city/system, particularly how it did give him an...

Shute Shield opposition fighting strawmen? Hehehehe

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It's too late. I think it needs to be after the next RWC cycle. I think that we'll now need the 4 years of the academies being up and running, and with the expanded squads that Glasgow and Edinburgh will need every cycle (having lost 21 and 14 players to RWC duty respectively), that's the next...

Is he the one the SRU said thanks but no thanks to about 15 months ago? EDIT: Yes, yes he was: http://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby-union/door-closed-on-kevin-locke-as-sru-drops-pursuit-1-3709533

Toulon guaranteed to be playing at least until the 11th. If they win that final, or are lucky this week, (by my count, beat Bordeaux with a bonus point and Racing to beat Montpellier with neither picking up a bonus point), it'll be till the 18th, then if they win that, the 25th, which is all...

OK, rant. Nowhere else to put it, needs to get out somewhere that isn't a scottish forum. SRU have ended a formal relationship with the London Scottish. This pisses me off. It’s unworkable, both sides are screwed over etc. etc. We need the ability to develop and bring on more players. It’s so...

http://melbournerebels.com/2016/05/31/local-star-hosea-commits-to-rebels/ Trevor Hosea has committed to rejoining the rebels at the end of his schooling. Don't know if there's any contract involved or not, details are sparse.

Who knows. It's almost definitely an attempt to alleviate the losses from the lack of an 8th home game. As I've said, it'd be nice if a half dozen blokes likely to make the Rising side would end up in the squad, or award some of the U20s who didn't end up going to the JRWC.

But when the tackle was made it wasn't a maul (pedantry, yes, salty, also yes)

South Africa: Forwards: Pieter-Steph du Toit, Eben Etzebeth, Siya Kolisi, Frans Malherbe, Bongi Mbonambi, Sikhumbuzo Notshe, Scarra Ntubeni, Jaco Kriel, Julian Redelinghuys, Warren Whiteley, Trevor Nyakane, Adriaan Strauss, Lood de Jager, Steven Kitshoff, Francois Louw, Tendai Mtawarira, Duane...

Japan named their squad for those Tests and the Canadian one off as well Forwards: Kensuke Hatakeyama, Masataka Mikami, Shinnosuke Kakinaga, Keita Inagaki, Shota Horie, Takeshi Kizu, Futoshi Mori, Hitoshi Ono, Kazuhiko Usami, Naohiro Kotaki, Kotaro Yatabe, Ryu Koliniasi Holani, Hendrik Tui...

Kick it off with my boys. Vern Cotter named a tight, experienced Scotland squad on the 10th May, with Mark Bennett being declared unavailable due to a decision to pursue Olympic Sevens. Since then Alex Dunbar, Tim Visser and Finn Russell have been ruled out through injury, and have been...

So while the important tours (Australia v England and New Zealand v Wales) to this forum at least are up and running, I think it’s fair enough to put up a catch all thread for the remaining tours. The games being played this International period are: Ireland’s 3 match Tour of South Africa...

Pat, Bip and Sefa running out for the Broncos sound pretty good too IMO.