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Please study the actual text of the Diggers' 'ruling' and compare it with Jones'. You will find much to contemplate therein in terms of equity and the consistency of principles applied. More generally, aside from the above, are we saying that 'priors' of 4+ years ago merits a suspension 250%...

This article highlights a number of issues with our 'innovative' and 'unique' multi-layered new player contracting system, linked as it is to further complexities with the RUPA and the Collective Bargaining Agreement and generally reduced squad numbers on ARU-enforced cost cutting grounds.

We were justifiably heaping praise on Harris as a 90+% kicker will win you tight game after tight game, simple really. And/or gain you what can be comp-deciding bonus points through a lowered losing margin. We can get excited re Harris' 'general' play, which for me is roughly as it was from...

Haven't in the past recognized your acute sense of humour, tl12.

Yep, based upon the visuals. Diggers, at 5 weeks, the very 'unlucky' one in the mystery land of SANZAR's faux 'judicial system'. These inexplicable suspension variations, and the relative light or heavy impact they can have on the teams of the affected players, are a disgrace, no other word...

Just a btw: I have a number of rugby friends who know Harris right through his NZ history, and unfortunately they believe that the Harris we are seeing now is the one they saw then: not a great player, not a greater passer or worker of the ball, and a 70-ish% good but not outstanding kicker over...

I've been thinking, and positively so. Isn't it very clear that we largely out-tacticed, out thought, and, for large tracts of the game, outplayed the mighty Cru at home today? Just some highly identifiable, but small in number, errors or imperfections cost us, mostly via Harris and the sadly...

Maybe, but their net names appear not, and why bother, you're not going to alter opinions in NZ with fake protests on an NZ site...so they seemed genuine to me.

Have to say it's both heartening and interesting to see the number of Kiwi and Cru supporters in their Comments below the text of this article in stuff.co.nz who categorically state the Reds as the better team and/or that Bryce handed them the match...

Can't wriggle out quite that easy Gaggs, you were a big defender of RG's with many an eloquent explanation as to how all the Force's 'historical problems and inherited constraints' were the explaining variable of RG's clear and consistently poor w-l ratio over 1.5 seasons. That same ratio...

For all the justified praise for Higgers, once again this match we see a potentially crucial weak spot: under pressure in attack, when Higgers' support is not easily accessible or in the right line, he often makes a very poor 'hopeful' short pass into nowhere, usually low and messy of a type...

Slim and Blue, I am always troubled by the seemingly logical argument that 'many bad ref errors but equally distributed to both teams' 'had no impact on the game'. In fact, the impact can potentially be huge as what may have unfolded in play - had the penalty been correctly not awarded - may...

Qwerty, quite right. As posted above, Harris' kicking misses and mistakes were crucial to the Reds' loss: 5 kicking points missed, penalty kick missed touch, restart too short, can't afford this v top team at home, esp Cru. He made similar mistakes and misses last week, and I noted the major...

Win or lose, a terrific Reds performance so far, especially away...

Bryce shocking, but btw we could pay a bad price for Harris' kicking being off, as it was in Auckland.

A mere aside: we were being told early in this season that RG 'was an excellent coach struggling with constraints inherited at the Force.' The concerns that posters like Gnostic, Waylon and myself held about this bloke's actual historical rugby track record (as distinct from his excellent media...

Importing the likes of Barnes, Cross, Pretorious, Anesi, recently chasing the Reds' Lucas, when NSW has the country's best player feeder base, and yet showing much less daring with coaches, that's the irony. (btw, meant Jake White above, not N White)

The thought has crossed my mind more than once: if the Tahs had possessed the vision to hire Jake White rather than leave that courage to the ACT RU...what might have been. The telling fact is that they did not. They were again happy enough with the products of their own system. And they let...

All above sounds like the tech product review equivalent of the after game review of the Rebels first ever match.

Gnostic, I'm convinced this 'abusive' over-playing of TPN in these situations arises from the fact that the Tahs coaches inwardly know that their fortunes actually rely, and over rely, on a handful of forwards, without whom the entire ship cracks and leaks to death. It's actually a form of...