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I know that there's regional tournaments everywhere, but big ones where everybody's involved. Maybe two 16 team tournaments would work best. Europe and North America in one. (Six Nations, ERC Div1A, promoted team from 1B, Canada, States and the next best North American side). Then Rugby...

Having now read it, it's not a bashing, so I've got no problems with it. It's a fair enough point, but ultimately it's a financial competition. As I've said before, the existence of the Lions series makes it much tougher to negotiate, but if you could have regional cups on the 4 year cycle a...

It's just a little surprising (at least to me) that there's such an upswell of Support for Georgia and Romania being added to the Six Nations, but no such luck for Fiji, Tonga or Samoa in the Tri-Nations/Rugby Championship, when they've been significantly better for much longer, and the same...

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Finished 5th in the European Sevens Series behind Ingerland, France, Spain and Russia, and finished 2nd in the European Repechage Tourney to qualify for the final Repechage too. Not too bad.

We can dream, Can't we? For mine, the dream/nightmare/drug induced hallucination is that Super Rugby goes the whole hog and looks for 6 new teams next time around. You then go for 3 Conferences, each with 2 divisions of 6 teams. Everybody in your own division twice for 6 Games. Everybody...

It'd potentially work in a 24 team cup, you could use the bottom 8, and have them play midweek fixtures. The games could go like this: Weekend 1: 1st Round of pool fixtures Weekend 2: 2nd round of pool fixtures Weekend 3: Final Round of pool fixtures Weekend 4: Round of 16 Midweek 1: Plate...

Simply put, that's the disadvantage of your season set up. In Europe, the U20s for the next JRWC are already the U20s, while over here, they're still U19s. Is that good or bad? Who knows. Seems to have worked for the English, but the Saffas and Kiwis make it work for them.

It's a lottery. Cautious optimism is always the order of the day.

The ideal time to do it is after all the regular spots have qualified. You're never much more than a year out, so you've got a good handle on the rankings in general, while the team that goes through in the Repechage deserves last pot seeding regardless of the actual rank.

Found the incident. https://streamable.com/t5rp For mine, I think Jonny will get away with an off field yellow, but as the assist, Ford will have a lot more scrutiny and miss a week or two.

They won promotion to ENC Div1A last year I think, so the team is in the best place to improve if the ones up top decided to do something about it.

I've not picked up footage of thè incidents, does anyone know when they occurred? I, along with 4 match officials and several hundred thousand fans seem to be completely unaware that they happened. If Fraser can play 70+ minutes, we'll be OK in the Hooker department, the big drop is Brown to...

Nick the 2nd Auto Qualifier from Europe and the Repechage spot from Asia, badabing badaboom, you got yourself a way to get all the Pacific sides if they deserve it, while still giving a spot to an Asian side. Sucks for whichever team would have been Europe 2/9, but what can you do.

Depends what you mean by on the decline. Are we in a worse place than we were 20 years ago. Undoubtedly. But there's been a lot of progress since the death of the borders, we've been slowly but surely dragging ourselves out of the pit of amateur organisation, management and development...

We've got no reward at the breakdown this RWC. I think that playing that style would be a mistake when the Wobblies are very good at that sort of thing. I think that we should throw caution to the wind and return to the Warriors esq play style we were using against Japan and Samoa. Part of the...

Famous last words.

In the same vein, the team that played in Newcastle for us is this: FB 15 Stuart Hogg RW 14 Joe Ansbro OC 13 Nick De Luca IC 12 Matt Scott LW 11 Sean Lamont Substituted off 38' FH 10 Greig Laidlaw SH 9 Mike Blair Substituted off 63' N8 8 John Barclay OF 7 Ross Rennie BF 6 Alasdair Strokosch...

Luckily you won't have to be watching the Wallabies after next week!

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