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I like to watch, confidentiality is to protect both sides. We don't (and probably won't) ever know who requested it. It may have been requested by the alleged victims, especially if they got a financial payout for purely pragmatic reasons.

Scarfman, I think the payout was purely for the civil matter of damages, since that is the limit of the powers of the arbitration system. My understanding was the the police declined to press charges on the criminal matter due to their inability to establish intent.

Exsdcept for the 4 in a row in 2007, 4 in a row in 2006...

People often talk about teams, especially the Boks, being "angry" after a loss, but the truth of professional sports is that losses are the result of one team being not as good as another, and all things being equal, the most likely result after a loss is an other loss. I hope it is true in...

I agree. I've been involved in a few business arguments over the years and my lawyers' advice has always been to settle. Even if you think you have a clear win, it's still a lottery. Quade's downside from losing the case would be a lot more then any settlement - literally millions. It doesn't...

Maybe defensive energy should be measured in Limas and offensive energy should be measured in Lomus?

BL = ha(e+am) Where h = hard

Langthorne, I think you're onto something here. We need a G&GR formula, our very own pseudoscience to make us rich and famous. The unit of defensive energy that the formula outputs can be the BL, for Brian Lima. For example (and this is just a starter, to illustrate the idea): BL = a(e...

I dunno. Lance's information seems quite direct.

I submit, Gnostic. My five second Google was plainly insufficient research. :-X

Mediation is purely between the complainant and the defendant. All that can happen is that the complainant drops or modifies their claim for damages. Any criminal charges made by the Police aren't affected. This seems to indicate there were no Police charges.

Or he was innocent.

It's the elephant in the room, Reddy!.

How about the Wing/Flanker?

Yet another point to consider is that the defender doesn't have to supply all the energy required to stop the attacker himself. Consider the case of a perfect bootlace tackle: a very small man can bring a very big man down in minimal space with the application of a tiny amount of force. In...

That's absolutely right Scarfman. The equation I used was the simplest one, literally the kinetic energy of a rigid body. Also, in slowing down and speeding up you will get rotation as well as elasticity. However there are equations to deal with all of those variables. Ultimately, a...

Yes, AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)'s leg drive is phenomenal. Defenders have to tackle him multiple times.

I've had a chance to mull over this with a glass of shiraz and I now reckon both measurements are needed to determine how hard a player is to tackle. Kinetic energy measures the energy a player brings to the collision, due to his size and speed. Momnentum, which changes with every small change...

Scarfy, it's an interesting question. Momentum is the force required to stop an object in a given period of time in a direction (i.e. momentum points in the direction of an object's velocity). Kinetic energy is the force required to stop an object in a distance. If you want to model the...

If an object is accelerating at the point of impact, then its kinetic energy is increased by the energy that is added by the force causing the acceleration, expressed as a vector to its direction of movement. :-)