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Reid, Seany and Colby are all contracted for 2017. Unless you'd be into Fuglistaller, might be best recruiting from within, or grabbing or Sevens forward. Or maebe even Rowan Perry.

T is 100% coming back to you guys because he's not staying at Glasgow, and his get out clause only lets him come back to the Tahs.

That's my bad. Misread or misinterpreted something somewhere then, thought they basically ran the 4 Super Sides, then added the Chiefs for Super 12. My point, somewhat still sort of stands. Talented individuals shouldn't be excluded. I mean, a Harlequins side would still make up most of the...

What's everyones predictions for the PRO12 with 2 rounds remaining? I've got: 1. Leinster 77 2. Glasgow 75 3. Connacht 74 4. Scarlets 67 5. Ulster 66 6. Edinburgh 58 (Superior PD) 7. Munster 58 8. Cardiff 57 9. Ospreys 49 10. Dragons 30 11. Zebre 20 12. Treviso 16 From : Treviso def by...

Does that include the Sevens tournament?

If you look at the Super 6 and Super 10 tournaments, the Kiwis were originally putting up the 3 or 4 strongest NPC sides. They quickly realised that was not conducive to proper development and switched from Provincial to regional before the comp was even formalised as the Super 12.

Wonder if Dan has dome enough to secure a contract extension. Don't know how much his back injury has affected him, but he's not been a standout in any appearances, chuck in the fact that Placid came on to play 15 and Hodge went to 10 in round 1 rather than the natural 10 jumping in, and we...

Perhaps I'm projecting my own experiences onto this too much. My own junior club was Whitecraigs, the Senior side is middle of the road, 3rd division sort of team. Little bit nicer grounds than your average club at that level, due to geography and demographic. Warriors and domestic training...

Maybe some sort of 10s carnival would be the answer to the Big Bash. We've got 8 NRC Sides. If you blocked out 3 weekends, you could have 9 prime time slots. In Day (Week): Round, Location format Friday (1): Round 1, West Sydney (Parramatta?) Sunday (1): Round 2, Newcastle Tuesday (1)...

Saw that too. I think there's a combination of a "put up or shut up" scenario and one which could potentially be good for setting the groundwork for the sort of club framework/competition. Rationalise the Shute Shield. Merge or cut teams till you've got 7 left, then add a...

Significantly less pathological hatred, much more, irked by the fact that a lot seem to fail to realise that best in the land =/= anywhere near good enough for what's necessary. Also irked by the clamouring to be seen both as grassroots village clubs and as elite development vehicles. 12 clubs...

Good move. He'd be my pick for the Bleck Seeven jersey.

Basic problem is that I see the current trajectory as potentially unsustainable, and has a 60ish% cause the death of the professional game in Australia in 25-30 years. Dramatic changes, particularly sweeping ones like some are advocating, has about a 70-80% chance of killing the game in 5...

What a game. Not the greatest pass by Bogan there at the end, but Woody should still be swallowing that 99 times out of 100. What the hell went on with the scrums at the end too?

Jack has problems either up top or maybe that ankle he was carrying into the season. Doesn't want to run at the line, shuffling the ball along rather than taking the contact, lots of defending on the wing. Hope he fixes up whatever he has soon.

Cool. Just knew he had moved on from his media role from the Rebels recently and that was the first time I've seen his name anywhere else. Good to know.

Based on his performance, I think Tamati felt that if he was missing that, they were going to win the bloody game or die trying! Poor de Jager too. Never looked comfortable after getting the jewels rearranged. Hope there's not any damage beyond embarrassment.

Jones is having perhaps his worst game in rebels colours.

For someone who played the game at a very high level, Jackson consistently appears to have very little understanding of both the Laws and the game itself.

Watch that kill off the game at a rate of knots with the vast majority of Test players heading overseas for contracts which go from much bigger to ridiculously bigger, and kill off any interest in the game from the non rugby states for at least a generation.