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He's already on the clipboard. It's a pity that he missed the tour to NZ because of a last minute injury else Oz rugby fans would know more about him. We will all wish the best for this young Victorian rugby player - everybody except for TV commentators, that is. .

I see that Yohann Maestri has pulled out of the test match with lumbago and that Joselino Suta, who was originally named on the bench, will take his place. This is a bit like England losing Courtney Lawes: not good. Instead of a 24 y.o. 201cm 120kg athletic, genuine 2nd rower who has started...

To be fair: without JOC (James O'Connor), QC (Quade Cooper), Genia, and a fit Ioane and Mitchell, the Wobs don't have players with attacking flair, Beale excepted. It would be barking dog madness to embark on a flair kind of game with the players they have, and one hopes that KB (Kurtley Beale) doesn't try to compensate by overplaying his...

Agree on Burgess and Giteau as the only guys I'd want in the Wallabies squad but there are a few players I wouldn't mind back for Super Rugby. James isn't no 2 at Clermont. He and the other old fellow Skrela are sharing the role. They have both started in 5 games in Top14 this year but James...

Sud Rugby has written an interesting blog about the test match here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/voila-your-inside-track-on-les-bleus/ Further down I responded so: That's a good write up Sud Rugby; enjoyed it. I wouldn't be quite as confident about France, though they are due to...

I don't know what Ireland fans think of their team but it doesn't impress me. They're showing the effects of an aging team in a few positions. 2nd rowers POC and DOC were in the team too long for their successors to develop. Ryan is a decent enough player but he's no Paulie and before this...

Mudskipper I think you've hit the nail on the head about restraint of trade - unless such restraint is permitted because the player waived his rights by signing his contract which had such a provision. (Though perhaps such a contract itself can be said to be in restraint.) Also, I think he...

Gold that.

I think the non-contract scenario for Super teams has gone back to the future. At the Tahs they use to have the academy and some blokes were paid (pro academy I used to call them though they became known as the Super Rugby Training Group) and others weren't (amateur academy). The Reds must...

It was good that Meyer chose to keep the youth initiative after Goosen was injured, and picked Lambie at 10 instead of M. Steyn. He was making noises last week that he was thinking of Lambie only as a fullback, There is a bit about the Springbok squad here...

Woo hoo - good to see a local lad play with the Rats and not go to Uni. I'm looking at you Phi Waugh. Just kidding son - you're one of the finest products of the Narrabeen Tigers. I don't think it will take Jim long to get to first grade. Normally I frown on things like this but fellows like...

Here's some stuff on the EOYT squads: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/autumn-tests-the-northern-teams/ http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/autumn-tours-the-southern-sides/ .

Absolutely, and I don't think it will be the only team he will be captaining, just quietly. .

Browning was always going to be a notter of some sort - not tall enough, not big enough or not fast enough - or not a lock or not a back rower. When I first saw him in 2009 he was playing lock for Qld Schools and even though he was only 15 years old at the time he nevertheless looked like he...

I understand what period the gong is for but is it the case that the players vote on a 3-2-1 basis? I really don't know for sure. If it is the case then we should not be posting about who we think is the best player, but who we think the players think is the best player. It should be the...

Guilty as charged Your Honour. Incidentally, Exeter was already playing in the AP (1st Div) when Kimlin was there because I saw him on TV and they don't televise the 2nd Div. .

Jeremy was around the Tahs stable for a while but never got a Super contract and I thought he could have. I don't know about shouting his name from the rooftops but expected that he would have got one of the 3 scrummie spots at the Rebels. However when they started up they went with a utility...

No more remarks about who coaches or chooses or recruits what or whom please. And no playing the man. Thank you

You only need one ball • Ulster v Castres – Rd 1 – Heineken Cup - - In the 22 minute the Ulster scrummie Paul Marshall chipped the ball through to the Scarlets in-goal and chased it. There was nobody in sight except some players warming up near the dead-ball line. They scrambled away but...

In the case of Swanepoel, who I was talking about, I doubt if his leaving Oz for a while would count against him since he spent 10 years in Oz. And on the residency thing you can leave a country for a while: they mention that you should reside physically in a country for 10 months for a year of...