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often? Six nations happening in the middle of a gloomy, freezing NH winter is a feature of the competition, not a problem with it. There's a reason TV ratings are massive, and most games would sell out several times over.

Our Super rugby season is stuffed by the timing of the June tours. They are essential for finances down here though. Suspect the north would be more than happy to get rid of them - and that's the way they are heading anyway with Lions tour years and breaks for pre-and-post World Cup years...

It's a bit like saying the MCG cricket test could be played anytime of year. Sure, you could move the boxing day test, but you'd want a bloody good reason.

Is that part of you also into some kind of weird, painful bondage Reg?

Here's the regulations. It appears that Olympics is an "and" condition (need to be a national and forfil the residencey, birth ort relative conditions. There's lots of other regulations in there for the Olympics which may mean you don't need both...

I'm saying that citizenship requirements are a fairly terrible way to decide on international eligibility for sports because they are easily rorted by richer sporting bodies, and even supported by the government. I'm also saying that Australia has special legislation to do just this, and has...

Australia made a special case for Fawad Ahmed; he got his citizenship in record time because he was thought to be good at cricket http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/646819.html It's not just in the smaller countries that citizenship can be rorted.

This years schedule (Sydney time) 2 games on Thursdays evening 17 games on Friday afternoon, 8 games Friday evening 2 games Sat lunch, 10 games at 3pm, 15 at 5:45, 16 at 8pm, 15 late games 37 early games on Sunday, 4 Sunday arvo, 1 Sunday late Happily, they seem to have got rid of most of...

How many casuals in SEQ do you think are going to buy 2 day festival tickets to a new rugby tournament using relatively obscure rules, that aren't already Reds/Super Rugby fans?

If the drinking restrictions/fun police issues remain, would anywhere else in NZ get a decent crowd even if they moved it? Related question; what does it say about sevens if only people wanting to get blind drunk are interested in attending?

Given the number of os contracts that our players have broken over the last couple of years is that really a path we want to go down?

No All Blacks will be released to play 10s http://m.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11787319

With 35+ players in a squad, two year standard contracts and some one year deals in the mix won't just about all of our super rugby teams have near 20 players out of contract for 2018?

Imagine how bad the studies into CTE and concussions must be for WR (World Rugby) to take these steps......

^^^ Good to see Looks like World Rugby tackling the easy 30% first. Given that it's covered by the laws of the game and merely an enforcement issue makes it the obvious route to take. How they deal with head injuries to the tackler appears to be a much more difficult issue. Will be watching...

Yep Reg, IIRC the only stat that is strongly correlated with success in rugby union at pro level is that the team that kicks the most, usually scores more points

We crossed that Rubicon a long long time ago. They already decide which laws to enforce and which to ignore in the name of letting the game "flow". There's probably more interpretation asked of Rugby refs than any other major sport on earth. What is a bit concerning is that we are all...

Quick look at A-League v Super Rugby on Foxtel, with all the usual disclaimers around both sets of numbers. This is a sum of the ratings for each round Good start to the year for the FFA but they must be pretty disappointed with the drop off once the cricket starts. They face the same...

I wonder if rugby analytics are far advanced enough to determine if teams are more likely to score next based on possession, or territory. Box kicks are widespread enough that it seems at least some coaches belive that they would rather the opposition had the ball in their own half than be on...

What's a non-wallaby Queensland team look like? Without QC (Quade Cooper) among others, it's pretty much going to be worse than the Reds isn't it?