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.... as have Robert E Lee and Thomas J Jackson (called "Stonewall", but was anything but.) They could manoeuvre around stubborn defences. .

As it used to be. The referees have a difficult job to do and it's not their fault. Well, they can blame their fathers a bit - but more of that later. The power hit may be a spectacle that fans like, but the price that has to be paid for it is anathema to someone of my generation. It has...

That's good news: I read a report that indicated that he would not be joining the Force until the end of the current Japanese season. I can't find the link now - and the info was probably bunk anyway going by what you said. Edit - Found it in the Canberra Times. With more than four months...

About the post that Gaffney was DOR: this was in the Aussie from Brett Harris: Cheika, who will coach the forwards and defence, hoped to finalise his "compact" coaching staff over the next few weeks. With Alan Gaffney focusing on backline play at the set piece, Cheika is looking for an attack...

That is good news that the signing of 3M is official. He probably has been for some time except for dotting the Is and crossing the Ts; so my carping that both the new 7s should not have been signed before a 4th lock was given a full contract, was probably not warranted. It's just that the Genia...

According to the Canberra Times, Speight completed his 3 year residency in August 2012. Agree with your comments about him; I'd put him on the plane. .

Usually we have an annual EOYT Bolters thread but we used so many players this year that it is unlikely that there will be too many new players. On the other hand, because we used so many, some 2012 test players would fit the description of bolters. And it depends on the match programme. In...

Wow - that surprises me because I rated him as a flyhalf, and fear that the switch could affect his rep chances.

Who are your picks?

Salesi Manu was a bit of a gentle giant at school and when I saw him for Manly before he came over to the Rats in 2011. He seemed to change about the time he switched and when Salesi Ma'afu was injured earlier this year he was playing some hard nosed rugby for the Force. He shifted a few...

Too many of us are beating around the bush. Higginbotham was stupid and deserves to be out for a while. Had an official noticed it he would have been red carded and we would have lost the game. Hooper needs a big kick up the arse too for the yellow card earned by his late tackle. They...

Perrett may have been shoehorned into the spot in Super rugby and played there for his club, but he is not really an openside. I was going to say Trent Dyer but he has been nabbed as has Jordy Reid, not really a specialist 7, I know, but he's done OK wearing the shirt for Manly sometimes...

I don't think anybody has done one of these for a few pages: Main Squad Props: B. Robinson (LHP), J. Tilse (LHP), P. Ryan (THP), S. Kepu (THP). Hookers: TPN, D. Fitzpatrick, J. Ulugia (also LHP). 2nd rowers: K. Douglas, S. Timani, G. Peterson, O. Atkins. Flankers: M. Hooper (7), P...

Yeah, I said it was academic. I guess my point is that because only 3 locks are definitely signed as we speak there should be another already instead of (one of) Alcock or Cotterill. It's not as though Sharpie's retirement was unexpected. As you know at the Force: unsigned contracts aren't...

This is why we need an alternative to the Oz Schools system. [Jiggles was talking about the 3rd tier on another thread.] We need another system to get the lads who missed out on getting "recruited" or don't want to go to to what they think is a posh school, or developed as rugby players in...

Gold, that. Arguments to the contrary have validity, as they do in politics, but we are not talking about health care or school lunches: we are talking about attempting a brave new step in a sport. If it fails there will be no starving people, nor dead bodies in the streets because of it...

Disagree with you Gaffa. I think you need 4 locks in your contracted players and to count McCalman as one of them is like whistling in the wind. Yeah, I've seen McCalman play lock in Grade rugby and play there sometimes in Super rugby like everybody else has and it proves my point. It would...

Although Walton is in the EPS, 2 Locks are needed to correct this imbalance and to get a 17/13 split.

This fits in with the Randwick conspiracy theory. Tom Tombleson played wing for Randwick. Didn't know that Gaffney was DOR at the Tahs: they used to call him senior assistant coach. It was a role he had with Sarries for a couple of years. In Europe the DOR is anything from being the de facto...

From Schools Rugby Tribune: SYDNEY, NSW (17/10/12) – The AAGPS rugby competition will undergo significant changes, effective 2013. St Ignatius College Sportsmaster, Andrew Szabo confirmed that the 2013 season will have six schools contest the 1st and 2nd XV competitions over two rounds...