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So when are they leaving? Friday?

Ireland named. Backs (16): Tommy Bowe (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster) 54 Gordon D'Arcy (Lansdowne/Leinster) 79 Craig Gilroy (Dungannon/Ulster) 5 Robbie Henshaw (Buccaneers/Connacht) 3 Felix Jones (Shannon/Munster) 6 Rob Kearney (UCD/Leinster) 55 Ian Keatley (Young Munster/Munster) 2 Darragh Leader...

Fox don't need a Saturday night game. They've got the Asian Champions League Final, the Melbourne Derby (another reason it's not a Sat night in VIC) and the Test v Pakistan. At 5ish , they have the ITM Cup final, The Test and another A League game. There's only room on the Fox Schedule for 1...

Wales named. No Adam Jones or Hook. Both fair enough calls. Tightheads: Aaron Jarvis (Ospreys), Samson Lee (Scarlets), Rhodri Jones (Scarlets) Locks: Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys), Jake Ball (Scarlets), Bradley Davies (Wasps), Luke Charteris (Racing Metro) Flankers: Dan Lydiate (Racing Metro)...

Scotland Squad named, Gilchrist to captain. FORWARDS: Adam Ashe (Glasgow Warriors), Johnnie Beattie (Castres), Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors), Blair Cowan, Geoff Cross (both London Irish), Alasdair Dickinson, Ross Ford (both Edinburgh Rugby), Chris Fusaro (Glasgow Warriors), Grant Gilchrist...

Sale game was worth a watch, good match in itself, Cipriani and Cusiter make a great pair. Glasgow game from the Highlights looked fab, recording it tonight. Haven't caught the rest, but they're recorded.

Needs more promotion, seems to be ~0 outside the Rising Media Pages and Hedgers weekly SEN interview. Also seems to be the club contingent that's turning up. Not seeing many of Saffas and Kiwis that I do at Rebels games. Plenty of the Pacific families though, great to see the young ones.

Rising crowd might be a bit short. There was a problem with the ticketing, the old man and I, plus at minimum 50 others. So they couldn't count those kids, and I've got no idea how they counted.

From the NZ team thread. Forwards Hookers Dane Coles (Wellington, 24 Tests) Nathan Harris (Bay of Plenty, 1) Keven Mealamu (Auckland, 120) Props Wyatt Crockett (Canterbury, 33) Charlie Faumuina (Auckland, 22) Ben Franks (Hawke's Bay, 37) Owen Franks (Canterbury, 63) Joe Moody (Canterbury, 5)...

Black Hawks would need some sort of investor behind them to bring in the required quality, but we're talking 8-10 years down the line, aren't we?

Fiji. Because it's fun.

Yes, please Fuck off.

For the EOYT, Scott Johnson wouldn't be an awful choicen Wouldn't wish a long term role on any team though.

Rising will need to improve from their performance against Country.

Get it up yeh, Bath, and Jeremy Wanker Guscott.

New coach needs to get in bloody quick to select an EOYT squad.

Didn't pay too much attention to the Country boys. Halfback was good. Forwards in general were quality (exception of Scrum time). Openside seemed to be a serial whinger though. JJT stood out for both the right reasons and the wrong ones. Fantastic if he has the tiniest bit of space, but folds...

Underwhelming first half. Jerseys a minor irk from a fan perspective. Rising lead 18-5 tries to RLM, Timani, and Debreczeni, 1 successful conversion, try went to the... QLD Halfback I think? Underwhelming. Lots of fumbles, lots of stupid penalties. Like watching the Rebs. Country look good...

Pink and Blue Stripes next year as a clash for us.