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Just to add a tiny bit of conspiracy, has anyone else noticed that the new Rebels jersey looks a little bit like a hybrid Force jersey?

Kind of agree. The 10 has to be an exciting player, which To'omua isn’t. 12 is his go.

And just as I read this DHP scores. To'omua isn’t a 10, the problem starts there.

I fear that Petaia might be this generation’s Geoff Fenwicke - a hugely talented player that we will never get to see play. At least Jordan managed a couple of caps, Geoff wasn’t so lucky. I hope I’m wrong, I’d love to see him as an integral part of the Wallabies (and Reds) for the next...

Sure, they would be nothing like ours though, on a relative basis.

Sure, and my preference is for TT comp, but I don't think we need to be comparing ourselves with them as a measure of our success. It's no secret that rugby is the number one sport in NZ whereas we have to compete with League and AFL for players. The big difference between rugby capabilities...

yes, it relies on someone beating NZ for it to happen, which ironically is usually us. By virtue of the amount of times we play them we are also the team that beats them most often.

that seems to be on par for historical time-zone friendly matches. Where the numbers will look good is we won't see the <20K viewers for the middle of the night matches. Hopefully interest will even pick up as the season progresses, I'd imagine there would be a few people sitting on the fence...

No not at all, just don't send the weaker unit off.

I think the ref needs to make a judgement whether the player is intentionally bringing the scrum down or whether he just getting monstered by his opposite, who ironically is actually intentionally making him take the scrum down. It was clearly the latter in this instance and the ref should...

Yes you're now competing with us for the shortest tall timber title

I actually saw that post by McDuling on the Twitter. I agree with him entirely. When it's a 5-10m scrum like that it should be a penalty try, that will be enough of an incentive to make sure props are up to it, but they also have to play to get experience. In other parts of the field maybe...

I was reasonably happy with that performance last night. The 2020 Waratahs are like a young racehorse, you don't expect it to conquer the world straight away but you want to see consistent improvement (strategic/physical/mental) from race to race.

We all know that NZ generally are better rugby players. By and large except for a few fluctuations in our favour this has been the case for 140 years. I don’t agree that having to play NZ teams regularly so we can compare ourselves with them is the solution to our current woes. Look at the...

Agreed. The Crudaders v whoever game last weekend was shit in terms of good rugby. Good close game but no better in terms of skills.

I think like the SFS all the good seats at Suncorp are on the same side as the media boxes

I think I read 14,000. Only using the lower tiers as per the >50k management plan.

Would appear so..

Took 20 seconds for the dew to get a mention!

Since you quoted it above I liked it again