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The advantage in a switching prop is in the greater squad, so both players on one side don't have to play every game.

Euro Snob syndrome. Every year it happens. Fabulous European clubs (and occasionally mid table sides like West Ham and Liverpool) fly to Australia to do meaningless preseason friendlies and the combination of trash and snobs that don't give a solitary shit about Australian Soccer fly in from...

Having said all this, I don't think we should be signing imports if we don't see them in the best 23. The 4 we've signed are fairly obvious replacements for Higgenbotham, Neville, Alo-Emile and Hegarty, all of whom were best 23 players, and the other major departure (Burgess), we're looking to...

Stupid call. Hawkins is the first one you could say that there's probably Australians that could provide the same effect. What Australian player would provide as much as Ellison on field, off field and willing to leave the Northern States? Ditto for Thompson. Who'd be better for us than...

There's still plenty of room in the side for NRC players, although signing him now rather than mid to late ITM Cup/NRC does seem odd. It probably boils down to the fact that a few new playmakers will be needed next season for all around. Tahs losing Lance and Volavola, Reds losing Cooper, us...

It was world cup style rugby. Tie the game when there's time to win it afterwards, roll the dice when there isn't. Calling it a courageous decision isn't accurate or deep analysis. It was generally in line with how most would play knockout rugby, so it shows that Moore knows how to Captain. An...

Horan is a perpetual reminder than you can excel at something with virtually no understanding of it.

So if we modified 2.4... 2.4 Shield Holders may choose to accept Challenges in play-off, pre-season, friendly or away fixtures, subject to ARU approval, but are not obligated to do so. And 4.1 4.1 At the end of NRC season, the ARU may choose to increase or decrease the minimum number of...

Can't answer the last question, but that's more or less what I was looking for. Someone with a stronger grasp of legalese, formality and the English language in general. Thanks mate.

Taking a different tack this time. Based on a 35 man squad, we've got 7 potential new signings. 1 Japanese, 1 full time, and 5 EPS. Pencilling in Gaki for the Japanese spot, this would be my break down. 30. Fly Half EPS 31. Loosehead Prop 32. Lock/Blindside/Number 8 33. Scrum Half 34...

Good depth signing. Always going to be difficult to find a quality tighthead in Australia given that a few are heading off, and others are locked into contracts elsewhere. He'll be competing with Metcher for the bench spot.

By the November internationals 2016 we should have at least Jones, Stirzaker, Hanson, McMahon, Sefa, Smith and Weeksy on the tour. Optimistic, but it's a future thread, if there's a place for unfounded optimism it's here.

More or less. I'll copy and past the contents below, forgot about the docx stuff. Loosely based on the Ranfurly rules. Please talk changes to style, content etc.

Another quality signing for mine. More experience in the pack. Not necessarily international quality, but he's spent a long time in the ITM Cup and Kiwi Super sides, and should help with providing experience lost from blokes like Higgers and Burgess, as well as making sure blokes like Jeffries...

Having a quick look back through the previous posts here, as well as looking at the rules for the Ranfurly shield online, I've quickly whipped up a very rough draft of what I'd expect the rules to look like. It is very rough, the wording and formatting needs some work, but I think it somewhat...

He's 18 years old for christ's sake. He's not going anywhere. We'll probably sign at least 1 Victorian based player from the NRC, because we've got 8 spots to fill, but it's worth waiting because the liklihood of someone being signed is minimal.

Christopher? Classy. :p

Thought Hugh was on a 3 year deal, not a 2 year deal. Get him back.