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To be fair, they got a fair chunk of it back when he paid his drug fine

Pulver in 2014 “In the case of Karmichael Hunt, we have him on an Australian agreement working in tandem with Queensland Rugby Union.

Given all the departures (and returns) its quite hard to come up with the 25 players or so who will be on a top up for next year....

Could is fine..... The second part is where you lose me. Hooper had twice the rucks involvements as James Haskell did in Melbourne. 38 v 20 (kudos to whoever produced those great stats ;) ) Does anyone think Hooper had a better game than Haskell?

Is he playing against the same opposition, using the same game plan as in 2015?

That's fine - but coaches clearly disagree with you. To use Hooper as an example there are times in games where he does not compete as much as a traditional 7 would in offensive rucks. His coaches are directing him to stay out to provide attacking options. They feel he provides more value to...

[ This is where I get hung up too, and it's why I have no optimism for rugby over the long term in this country - I think we will essentially have no international players in our domestic leagues in the medium term, and hence will be picking all Wallabies from OS. We can get to that position...

Force Fan does amazing work collating these stats but surely all they tell us is how each super rugby coach uses each player in their individual game plans. It's interesting data, but it's a mistake to use them to compare players. They are all part of different systems and are performing...

Interesting choice by the marketers for TRC this year

Don't think anyone will disagree, but it's not how ratings are supposed to work!

Just had a look - for the games I have recorded.... Average is slightly up on last year - at low 60s per game. Disclaimer is that more games haven't made the top 20 cutoff this year Edit - should also mention some Sunwolves games are appearing this year as well as aussie and kiwi games

The problem being that the ARU make the bulk of their money from the Wallabies, not the Super Rugby teams. The national team subsidise the other pro teams. (See the 2012 annual report for details under the previous TV deal - they haven't split the current one as far as I know, so it's...

Shute Sheild 37k I wonder how many in the sample group are ex-pat kiwis? The New Zealand games top the ratings for this week..... @MediaweekAUS: Sat TV #SuperRugby #FoxSports #BRUvFOR 61k #HIGvCHI 70k #CRUvHUR 73k

LFG :(

The early game on Friday has been regularly out rating the late game all year.

If you are going to play rookies, you are going to get rookie mistakes..... All I'm saying is it's unfair to blame players in those situations. It's a coaching and selection problem. But we all know that already.

Blues v Tahs 66k Reds v Rebs 45k Must be close to the reds lowest ever result

Pretty tough to drop your rookie 10 in his second game for that. How many clearances from his own line do you reckon he's had in his entire career? If that's the standard you're going to set it's going to be hard to put a team out

Are you allowed to substitute him back on like that if Tupoa doesn't think he's injured?

Gill goes over after the best period of the match for the reds. Too much pressure after 4 penalties in a row from the rebs 24 - 14