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The Bledisloe 2000 game was a cracker, especially in the second half as the Wallabies fought back. My own favourite was the 2004 Super final when the Brumbies put the Crusaders to the sword. I also have a soft spot for the 2003 RWC semi when Mortlock broke the hearts of the many AB supporters...

RN, are you saying we're in a tunnel? The rest of the country is on a bridge I believe.;)

If that happens Outsider and is essentially just a takeover with operations still continuing under the RA banner, then I think even with Forrest at the helm we'd still be locked into Super rugby. If RA is completely dismantled and replaced by an entirely different ownership/management/governance...

https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2020/03/22/coronavirus-domestic-season-suspension Revised domestic Super comp on hold at least until 1 May. I suspect it will be next year before we see much rugby again. All super teams to suspend training for 2 weeks and then resume with a modified regime...

I seem to recall Matt To'omua being rated better than the two of them after one year's schoolboys championship.

Beale-esque or should that be burlesque?

A bit of nonsense, but any side without Solomone Kata and Tom Wright would be missing a lot.

Simple. He wasn't on the ground which would have made it illegal. Muirhead was airborne when he made the tackle.

Hawko, it seems to me that with some referees, including Rasta, there is a very strong inclination to penalise teams defending in their own 22m area. That might be just a reflection that most teams are more likely to infringe in that area. The Brumbies had the better of ball possession and...

Let's assume that a modified local competition gets up in the coming months. Where does it start with the ladder? Do the sides simply retain their current points?; are the points they've earned to date adjusted to remove international games from the equation?; do they start from zero again? If...

That's fine Adam. I rate Swain the best of the three. Our ratings however won't be very influential in the long run.

In the view of a quickly diminishing minority.

Likely to happen next year UTG, but I'd still take Darcy Swain before either of Blyth and Hockings. Swain, in effect, is a combination of both - aggression and power of Blyth and skills in the air and lineout similar to Hockings. In fact, right now I reckon Swain is closest to Arnold in maul...

For all his lineout capability, Simmons was outjumped yesterday by Cadyrn Neville on at least two occasions close to the Brumbies line. I'm pretty sure Rob hadn't been replaced.

McKellar mentioned in the after match interview that the wingers are being rotated and it was Andrew's turn this week. I do feel more confident about Ryan's goal kicking than Noah's. but have to say Noah was very good today.

Yeah, chalk and cheese. Also add Simone and Hunt to those lists as well. For what it's worth, I think Maddocks showed a higher level of interest and was involved more once he moved to No 15. As far as I know, he left the Rebels because he wasn't getting time at 15; probably thought Beale was a...

Just can't fathom why the Brumbies aren't last on the ladder. Their defense has so many holes in it.:(:confused:

That's the sort of information that I think most of us would welcome from the Govt. Not saying we should suddenly turn optimistic about the whole thing, but atm the news just seems to get darker by the day.

It could well turn out that SANZAAR will abandon the 2020 comp altogether, but they haven't yet. There is still so much confusion and contradictory advice floating around, that it seems they are still contemplating getting the Super season re-running some time in the future. While ever they hold...

Apparently they elected to take the medical advice that the virus could not be locked out in the longer term, and was better to just try to delay and suppress it as far as possible to allow the medical facilities to have an opportunity to deal with it. Time might tell if that advice has been...