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1 International + 1 Development international + 1 Japanese player. Force and Rebels get 2+5?+1.

Well, Tim Metcher has been signed to an "EPS" spot. The quotation marks were to indicate my questioning how official it was etc.

We've only got "EPS" spots left anyway.

Gold Coast got a metric fuck ton of young talent, on top of a couple of experienced recruits, and a squatter body not suited to the style of the game. Compounded with an unfortunate injury or two to mean he's become a relatively poor option. He's an outright professional in every sense of the...

Eh. The Opener was like watching two Barbarians teams going at it for mine. Lots of quick taps, broken play, poor combinations etc. With a bit of attacking flair, I thought this was better, more tactical line-outs and scrums, defence "appeared" to be a little better, and at least the Vikings...

This game felt like proper Rugby, compared to last week. Does everybody know what I'm saying?

Geoff bloody Cross was able to dominate some piss weak loosehead whom many were calling a better scrummager than Beast. Geoff fucking Cross. A player rejected by BOTH Glasgow and Edinburgh in favour of second string Saffa tightheads. Any and all scrum problems are the boks and the boks alone.

So there's gonna be some sort of EPS. Awesome.

Toby, Telusa and Tom are from overseas. They should be here. Paul, Pat, Cruze, Sean and Ben have played their club Rugby outside NSW. Scott and Luke are our Wallaby Allocation. Leaving: Mitch (Uni) Engo (Uni) Big Red (Uni) Little red (Uni) Debreczeni (West Harbour) Neville (Manly?) Timani...

I still think a half dozen more local blokes will probably get sometime. Without getting too deep, Greg Bauer, Fereti Sa'aga, Gus Hamilton, Martin Nafahu and RLM would probably get an opportunity at some point, whether that's due to injury, rotation or form. Otherwise, meh. I'm happy for the...

Largely stopped following footy, support the Lions, or support North. I think they're only a recent (within the last decade?) venture as well, instead of dropping straight into the ammos, they initially partnered with Uni Reds, who eventually took on the name. Regardless, your point that...

Lopeti Smash! :P

Perhaps 2 conferences of 6, play everyone within your conference and 3 teams in the other. Top ranked in either play 2nd in opposite, two winners play in the Grannie. Change the conferences every 4 years or so. So over 4 years, you've played everyone home and away, twice for everyone in your...

In the immediate future, if Randwick want to blaze on alone, they should be able to. Otherwise, holding off for a few years (about 5+) then adding a couple more (say a 3rd Queensland and potentially an Adelaide or Newcastle side, assuming a sugar daddy can be found). Would be my thought process.

Raw power indeed.

An injury replacement contract for Shippers is an option, otherwise we're having to look at some sort of WTS in the absence of the EPS. Still, the ability to bring in replacements from within state rather than importing them is vital in the short term, and a couple of those graduating to the...

Ah. That makes a bit more sense then. Carry on fellas.

Do people really not have FTA channels on Foxtel? For mine: 100 = 9 107 = 7 110 = 10 127 = 7Two 129 = Go! 131 = Eleven 207 = 7Mate 209 = Gem 210 = One I can't remember ABC & SBS exactly, but 102 & 104 respectively, plus 202 for news24 and 228 for SBSHD sounds about right.

Yeah! Rebels and Reds everywhere in the XXIII!

Obviously we've got some work to do before next week (Handling and Defence primarily it seems) but we got the win with the bonus point, and we again come up against one of the "weaker" sides in the comp. Assuming McMahon is not rested again, I reckon he'd slot into Openside with one of Taufu...