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That's all I saw there.

Let's just think through the potentially damaging logic path here: you win the comp, your players real and money value goes up, but some of the best must be shed to permit some others of the best to be retained. So the best proven teams are pillaged, so that unproven teams can possibly, maybe...

If this is true and salary cap-driven/caused I will go feral.

Looks definite if this is to be believed as of 5pm today: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/rugby-union/higginbotham-to-quit-reds-for-rebels/story-e6frg7o6-1226357966071

My proposal would rather be that the key to that room was mysteriously lost until the cricket season commenced.

Quade presser today. Do you like peanut butter? Worth a view. http://www.foxsports.com.au/Rugby/cooper-returns-to-face-lions/video-e6frf4pu-1226357664088?subcat=1111112039622&site=FoxSports

Guys, one Morahan swallow does not a summer make. He's been shocking for much of this season. Lucas has been far more consistent and will offer more as a second playmaker when needed. Re Beau - FWIW, I have heard his foot is not yet 100%. Suspect he's being rested when now not so crucial as...

I am sure the roar at Suncorp when QC (Quade Cooper) first hits the turf will do his fabulous contribution to, and character for, our team justice. A great rugby warrior and hugely gifted player, returns to the gladiatorium. The scene of many perfectly placed beautiful long passes, stunning jinking runs...

Yes Bb Bladen is old and I agree re his current flaws. But on a good day, I still find he's just possessed of a lovely tone and touch in the way he commentates (that is hugely better than anything from FoxSports). He has that skill to not intrude upon what the viewer sees, he lets the facts...

Our current problem is that our Fox Sports comms are quite convinced they 'have value to add' at every second, every minute of every game. And no one on their panel seems to function as editor, they are like an anarchist newspaper with a limitless supply of paper, ink and delivery vans. Each...

Agree. I was not quite aware how bad their record vs SH sides was until I read this (from the article above, my highlights):

Interesting article quoting acting Wales coach re their perspective on the coming tour: http://www.campaignseries.co.uk/sport/9706796.Wales_must_take_Wallabies_scalp_says_coach_Neil_Jenkins/

Bardon - may I say, you really do post a lot of quality per inch here. Fantastic, thanks. And from the land of my forebears (1820s to Aus, from County Tyrone). The situation of the Tahs backline that you, Hawko and others post so powerfully on was fully known, observed, worried over, and...

The other question is of course: is he truly a good enough coach in 2012 for 2013+ SH S15 conditions? The vast majority of posters here seem to believe the answer is: automagically, yes he is (based on the HC), no doubt about that. Why do we automatically conclude that based upon NH...

Quite. A side note on this: was recently in Auckland, and, once taxi drivers there engaged with me re rugby and the RWC, virtually every single one spontaneously wanted to apologize to me re the treatment QC (Quade Cooper) received whilst playing in the RWC. They raised the issue, not me. They were quite...

I don't think so. And for course that's not the point. You seemingly justify - or explain - the contrast with an ersatz sporting morality code that's a kind of Old England elitism: If a 'show pony' cheap shots a 'highly prestigious good bloke' it's sort of understandable that he's harassed and...

In fairness, this is not at all what Sully is saying. He's saying: there's no hard trend evidence that 'arvo' scheduling has driven up the 2012 Reds last crowd very materially, and I'd agree. Especially as we know vs Kiwi matches adds '000s to the base Reds crowd as local and tour group Kiwis...

Pray tell, to whom do you refer? Who are these 'plenty'?

As I've said elsewhere, if due to this mad salary cap scheme, a player of Higgers' evolving calibre and value to the Reds, and after years of mutual loyalty and development, cannot be 'afforded' by the Reds and thus has to leave, this is a travesty of exceptional proportions and gravely so in...