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Just a little bit of a good news story - out here in the Central West, the Loig comps are all off and the rugby kicks off this weekend, the local media outlets literally have no other sport to cover. Aside from that, the loig players are all positing for spots on the reserve grade bench for...

According to NewsCorp..

Unless other people/entities are helping to pay for all 5 Aussie teams, and maybe even the comp. Which seems to be gaining a bit of traction of late.

I think it's the points he makes that are reasonable. Neither SAF or ARG will be playing any domestic games this season and their better players will be contracted to NH sides. SO they would be sending an underdone 2nd/3rd string squad over at considerable cost. I guess from a development...

All that said, I think Blue's summation on his new thread on the matter is quite likely i.e. SAF and ARG say fuck that.

I don't think anyone is TBH. The NSW situation is far from disastrous at present, in fact it seems they've done a good job of containing the SW suburbs outbreak. Only 10 new cases in the state today down from 13 yesterday, and only 3 of those related to that cluster, this is nothing like the...

It's only the RC games being played in New Zealand and there are 4 Bledisloe's mooted so logic would suggest there will be 2 more in Aus after the RC. Both sides fly in to Qld? or Perth?, 14 day quarantine and game on.

I just realised my manual count had any error and there are 57 NSW origin players (not 67) contracted to Aussie super franchises v. Qld's 50. For Qld Origin players: Reds - 32 Brumbies - 9 Rebels - 5 Waratahs - 4 It won't surprise anyone but Qld's player retention is better than NSW's...

That’s a column in the spreadsheet so it won’t be hard to do that. Will report back

These were all the players listed on the franchises’ websites at the time, and Origin was defined as where they played their first rugby game aged 16+. NSW - 67 Qld - 50 ACT - 14 O/S - 12 Vic - 11 WA - 10

I wondered that too, presumably the context of the article was something around the dominance of Qld/NSW in the Wallabies, and/or the lack of players from other origins. It would be pretty close to 50/50, I went through an exercise during Covid where I traced the Origin of the players of all 4...

and approximately 50% of those 13 leaguies would be from NSW. BTW, Rogers and Hunt wouldn't be in that basket as they went through GPS schools up there.

On points it's equal 2nd v equal 2nd, even the F/A is only 2 points different. Match-up of the decade.

Jessica Halloran has returned to the Aus this morning to claim that a domestic comp would only be worth $10m broadcast dollars. Given her timely return from the abyss the inference would be that Murdoch’s preference is for a TT comp. One piece of worthy information she provided was that the...

Someone posted this comment on Wally Mason's latest attempt to put the boot into SRAu. I watched part of that Eels game and thought it was atrocious so was planning to try to find these stats myself. It is worth discussing a comparison between League and Union. So perhaps we should compare the...

I see he’s expected to be back for the weekend.

We might actually start this game with Faulkner. How far off is Robertson?

Actually not too bad

I think Maloney will get a gig once everything is sorted out, he hasn’t gone unnoticed. And I agree on Bray, I liked his commentary, my mum actually used to live upstairs from him. I do like the idea of ex players being in the commentary box, but it needs to be someone who can sound...

I had the same thought when people were whingeing about it. Selective criticism.