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Crap. Boxing, some random AFL show and something else I can't remember - golf? It is feast or famine sometimes on the three Foxsports shows.

My run of picking a shit captain continues.

I wouldn't follow my captain choices; I had epic fails from my last 4 or so captains - Sivi, Schmoo, Payne and one I can't remember.

Benched. You may want to change that, if you still have a transfer left. My team is dodgied up for another week, with some carefully thought out transfers dumped at the last second for some relatively random whim-based ones. JC JvR, Big Mac, (Myth) Battleship*, (Chilliboy) Franco vd Merwe...

BTW the gf saw the bit with Barnes and I swear she didn't look away the whole segment. There also might have been a little bit of drool on the couch afterwards...

That bit with Barnes was probably recorded weeks and weeks ago. It is not uncommon to see badly injured players running freely on crap like Piggies and Princesses.

I set Poki as my captain at the start of the week but had since considered SBW. I am iffy on Poki because my last few outside back captains like Sivi, Payne, etc have failed to score well. I am keeping Ioane as well simply because I have no idea who I would bring in for him. I have three...

For the (anecdotal) record, I've only ever worn headgear a few times (as I tended to lose the blasted thing constantly at training). One of those few times I was wearing headgear was the only time I've ever been knocked out in a game of rugby. And if you're wondering why I got headgear, it's...

Veratau was poor at the Reds for a few years after looking like a decent enough prospect at the Brumbies.

Actually, Mumm is one lock who has impressed me with consistent scoring, but he's definitely a bit pricey at $346k. Other options are Sharpie at $335k, Franco van der Merwe at $290 (who has been a consistent scorer in the 20s - actually not bad value for money). It's actually quite hard to...

I like Pretorius because the Cheetahs don't have a bye in that awful run of 3 weeks. If I took Burgess, then I'd have 3 Tahs - Beale, Schmoo and Burgess, which is probably too many. Currently I am thinking of brining in Willem Alberts this week, then subbing him over to Messam next week. My...

The standard touch rules should be used, assuming you have a guy who has refereed touch games before. Eg, play the ball, no marker, half must pass, no kicking, ball touches the ground for a hand over, etc.

Gits (or someone, anyway) is slowly addressing his crabbing issue as well. The crabbing seems to be less pronounced. Whether that is due to To'omua spending a lot of time at first receiver, who knows.

I do believe a lot of Digby's family are actually in Brisbane, which is why he moved back from the Force in the first place. I wouldn't bank too much on family luring him to Melbourne.

If I recall correctly, there's also some studies which say that headgear does not do much in terms of actually stopping concussions. Not sure on the accuracy of those studies, or how they relate to today's headgear.

What's more, the Cheetahs and Rebels do not share a bye, so you can rotate both of them - so long as the Cheetahs don't bench Pretorious when the Rebels have a bye, that is.

The Reds would be better off starting Schatz at 8 and Houston off the bench if they want a more mobile backrow. Schatz has a higher workrate, is more mobile, and will play tighter than Houston.

The best prop for the Rebels has been Yoda by a country mile. I would guess that 90%+ of the problems/penalties the Rebels have had with/against their scrum have been against Henderson. Henderson has been penalised a little too much for me at scrum time so far. If Yoda was Australian...

The issue with halfbacks is that a fair bit of great halfback play isn't rewarded with points. Getting to plenty of rucks, getting the ball out quickly, organising the forwards, throwing good passes chest height in front of the man, and taking the right passing option will earn no points...

The NZ system is that each franchise locks up their top 25 (? or so players), and the rest go in a draft from which other teams can grab players relatively freely. If I remember correctly, that's how, for example, Brett was grabbed from the 'Saders, and the Clan picked up a few handy players as...