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IMO, that's an excellent deal (and you get lots more besides). Apart from the hapless Fox commentariat (I would pay $10 pm extra for a black button to delete their inputs), the actual production/camera/edit quality is very good, and watching a sport like rugby or cricket in full HD is just so...

Could not agree more Braveheart81. Honestly, I think it's a disgrace that they - and their oligopoly-based huge profits - have been granted all these extra channels, and now barely deploy HD, a technology for which most modern large TV screens were designed and which immeasurably increases the...

From an English sports journalist now living in NZ - "A Word on the AB's Play: C****s" Just offered in passing... http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/a-word-on-the-all-blacks-play-cheats-20110831-1jl9l.html

Major! I would have rather thought you'd consider today something of a red letter one. What with Scotty initiating a thread hailing HRH R McCaw as a brilliant and respected figure for him, and Barbarian coming out of some kind of complex closet and confessing that he 'wouldn't mind too much if...

Spot on Richo. I flew down for the Sydney England Test last year with my wife with Platinum seats and we both agreed the rugby viewing experience (especially with the stadium way less than full) was really disappointing, even with these 'best' seats. I agree with you re SFS, etc. At last...

1. A point of clarification and why, yes, a nerve was hit. You did not in your first post here - the one I objected to - call QC (Quade Cooper) 'a twat'. You stated he possessed 'the mentality of a 12 year old delinquent' as the defining description of him. 2. Persistent eye gouging is a bit heavier that the...

FFS, of course I'm not literally 'telling on him', that's my emotive comment (for which I make zero apology partly as the mods here have rightly said that personal abuse of individual players is bannable, in principle). And Ali Williams fans can take care of him, or so I would hope, but I don't...

MR - a number of us do like you, and respect what you have to say. You're a good sport and bring a biting wit and many good (and amusing) observations to this excellent forum. IMO, we benefit here from fair-minded Kiwi supporters (it's the dark and desperate AB-loving internet sociopaths that...

Sorry, calling the mods. This is just flagrant abuse of a fine player. Do you know this to be true Blue? What evidence do you have to attack a player in this condescending, holier-than-thou, condemning manner? I have actually met and had quite lengthy chats with QC (Quade Cooper) on two occasions (have...

Thanks Groucho. +++111. And a massive boon for fan pull into Aus rugby. I have rarely if ever found the kind of virulent Cooper-hate that occasionally - and grossly unfairly - appears here from time to time in the many 'general public' Reds or Wallabies fans (old or new) that I come across and know.

What we do know is that Suncorp will have at least Wallabies 1 X Bled and 1 X Wales in 2012, as these games are packaged with a Reds Ruby 2012 membership for those so inclined.

Interesting poll in the NZ Herald. Out of 1,400 respondents (a reasonable sample size), 65% no less don't want SBW to re-sign with the NZRU: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby-world-cup-2011/news/article.cfm?c_id=522&objectid=10748392

Draw for the whole S15 2012 is already done and at least part-published as we Reds fans/members got the full, detailed 2012 draw at the Reds Gala Dinner on August 20. E.g.: Reds v Rebels Brisbane 7:40pm Bris time (although I think this was meant to be AEDT, not AEST as was announced as above)...

Bruce - you'll recall our joint expression of cynical hilarity when, at the last big 'ARU announcement relating to the future of Australian rugby', it all turned out to be the truly epoch-making news that yet more BC games were to be played at that scintillating Sydney rugby stadium so beloved...

Good question Jnor. I have often wondered on this. One clue to this 'quite regularly, a different leak in a different place' is IMO an element of the Robbie era that relates to ChargerWA's point above/below regarding his man management attributes (which I agree with ChargerWA are very debatable...

If we don't get our place kicking into a consistently high-70%s+ zone, and get an excellent defensive and offensive line out working, last Saturday risks being another false dawn. We were fortunate those major line out errors and QC (Quade Cooper)'s poor pressure place kicks didn't cost us victory. As I said...

Yes Mr T. As much as I normally agree with Bruce - a great of these fora - I think this time his 'model' is too harsh in its latest guise, in evaluative terms. We cannot expect the Wallabies to win every Q of every AB game. We know the ABs are immense competition, they are masters of cunning and...

Actually, I disagree, IMO the ABs played generally well in 1H if you isolate from their play the impressive strength of the Wallabies play. They would have surely dominated from the first 5 mins lesser teams than the Wallabies were on that night. The point is, the Wallabies played so well as to...

Do you know though Scotty, IMO one of the truest things you ever noted was along the lines of: '...the most effective and successful teams are not necessarily the ones comprised of solely the 'very best' players, oftentimes the best teams are comprised of the right players that will make up the...

Agree 100% MR. Doubly appalling was the 'I'm wholeheartedly committing to a 2012 for rugby in NZ as people have treated me so well, offered me so much support' etc.. and then to have the pathetic hypocrisy to effectively say: 'well, I didn't really value all that support so much after all if the...