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Exciting prospects who are very raw (a perfect description for Foley) are just the sort of players you want on rookie contracts. This is especially true of prospective 10's. It takes maturity to run a team from 10 and while Foley is a decent prospect he's certainly no Beale. So I hope that...

I thought you had to play three games to get guaranteed access to a full contract. But there's a lot of conflicting opinions out there without much actual information (mine included).

I dont recall seeing much of the bolded part anytime. Just finished watching a replay of the 1999 semi-final. Apart from Fleck the backs were just spectators watching the 10 kick the ball relentlessly. Saw what I thought were the beginnings of some back play after 2007 in Super rugby but it...

To address the issues raised: Just because the statistics show that one referee is biased against a particular team does not mean there has to be another referee biased in the opposite direction. I know of no other international referee who has this sort of issue. There may be one, but not...

Having watched Blackadder I should have known that anything Baldric says is unreliable. :)

Baldric has just reported that Botha and Matfield are both doubtful for the game. That has to even the odds a bit, even if they play it doesn't sound like they'll be 100%.

Means Palu is getting no bench/game time. Looks like my hopes for a Samo/Palu wrecking crew are quickly fading.

If it had been the AFL World Cup she would have broken a leg to be there, even if Tony would not give her a pair for the occasion. Bloody Mexicans! And in the spirit of even handed political comment, you don't need to reach very high to get higher than BOF, as posters earlier have attested.

"Newspaper publishers believe they will be at a commercial disadvantage to non-accredited media organisations, which would not be bound by the time restrictions on video footage and would be free to place advertising with their journalism." There we have it. The SMH has officially stated that...

Hit or no hit Lee, the Uni scrum was awful! I couldn't believe what my television was telling me. Haven't heard from Bruce or Topo on the forum for a while, both of them are probably too distraught to post.

ABC don't put it up on i-View till Sat night or later. Down here in Adelaide I can get the SANFL in the avo. That really is the pits!

What are you trying to say? That Clancy knew the protocols a few months ago and just forgot? I think that's a stretch. My point is that Lawrence was then and is now a way better ref than Clancy. There is so much daylight between them you can hardly see Clancy in the distance. I'm...

Fatprop, please do not do this! My mental health is likely to become unhinged. I keep remembering that we have a 50+ test cap THP back home playing Shute who walks all over this player (and I don't mean Slipper).

Early on in the clip there was a 13 who made him look sensational. Anyone know who he was? He'd be worth recruiting.

Recent events in Shute (the Manly v Uni game) now have me very concerned that Ryan and Tilse are not up to Super standard. The Uni front row was completely owned in that game by a front row that was not as good as most Super front rows. Based on that, it seems to me that we have more need for...

1. Kaplan is so widely criticised in Australia because his refereeing is, by statistical analysis of his record, biased against Australian teams. Australia in internationals and the Waratahs in Super rugby, win less than 20% of their games when he referees. Both teams have win/loss records...

Reckon Manly are still worth a shot, but the other three won't go remotely close.

You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Our key reserves (TPN, Slipper, Sharpe, Hodgson, Palu, Burgess, Barnes, Mitchell) have had virtually no rugby for months. What happens if we get injuries, and injuries are a slight possibility in a seven week comp, ask the Tahs. None of the...

Whoever is in charge of the website needs a big kick up the bum. Opened it up today to find info on the Tahs Super draw (nothing there) and front and centre on the page was a reference to today's featured player - Locky McCaffrey. Great, except he's now signed for the Force!!

In the past Cliffy has been a slow starter after injury but I thought that this year he got back up to speed pretty quickly playing for the Tahs. He was awesome in his play against the Clan in what was his third/fourth? outing from injury.