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Well I hadn't watched my recording of the Stormers game yet until today (due to an excessive amount of gardening this weekend to pay for my so called "excessive" amount of time spent on things related to rugby). Thoroughly impressed by the Reds. Grant it, the Stormers went to sleep for a bit...

Now a rugby team gets a bailout package. :nta:

Spot on. Cheetahs have three very good players in Smit, Nokwe and Brussow and a whole bunch of players who battle to make the step up. As a whole, the Lions have a more competitive outfit. I predict at least two upsets from them. They may not win more than 2 or 3, but they are going to knock...

Surely if there are players at the front of the "maul" who are able to drop off and rejoin at the back, it was a truck and trailer in the first place or has the truck and trailer law been dropped with the maul change? If a video editing buff can clip one of the Bumblebees mauls? I don't think...

Surely that does not constitute a maul? More like a disjointed rumble forward with nobody really sure what to do. There were two of them in the Brumbies game. It was about 18 meters long. I hate this new shithouse law.

Nah. Just watched the recording now and after 50 mins the Stormers were cruising in all aspects. They were arrogant enough to think they could cruise home. Reds robbed by the ref? Nah. Full credit to the Reds though, they played all the rugby for the last 30 mins and actually looked good...

Something like this? Pause Juggle Step back Look left Look right Pass The forwards did great work through the phases but there was always a longer than needed pause before the ball came out. As a result they just didn't catch the Chiefs on the hop.

Any club signing him should be boycotted.

Horrible, horrible game of rugby. The shittest team lost. They fired Link because the rugby was't attractive enough? What was that then? :nta: Tahs are goign to lose close games becuase of missing kicks at goal. Anyone else think Burgess has a shocker? He may have a career in juggling, but to...

Cheetahs by 4.

Therein lies the dilemma. O'Neill wants the Super XX to fund a local comp in Aus. NZ and SA are not goign to agree. Any two stage comp with local pools looks pretty doomed to me although it would be exciting.

It's an issue in the regular season as well but its worse in the finals because an SA team arrives here and plays four days later. Not enough time to acclimatise. It's a known fact that travelling East causes worse jetlag. In the regular season they play four or five games away from home...

Can't see this working. SA is not going to give up the Currie Cup which starts in May and neither is NZ the NPC It looks like too much Rugby. What, 16 regular season games plus a finals series that could go up to four games? That's twenty games. So the 3N / 4N then ends just before the Spring...

As for the argument that the game is about competition for the ball it shows the different perspectives Saffers and Aussies have on the game. Here in Aus the argument of ball competition is a compelling one becuase there is always comparison to league (and the need to differentiate). In SA its...

Ah Ok now I remember the debate about the lineout. In fact in 1989 we played trials in the University comp that allowed lifting. The jumpers loved it and the props hated it. As for the injections, who knows. I have heard plenty people say things like those Saffers, they can't get that big...

This really looks like a wind up and its not even clear who would have started the rumor. SA stands to gain nothing from leaving Sanzar and joining a second rate European competition during the SA summer. By the same token, Aus and NZ will only lose. Scotty pelase explain to me how things...

Did we? Just curious.

This is a game that the Blues would have lost in the past. That was pretty workmanlike, which is not something you associate with the Blues. Look at the list of players they will bring back and they look very useful. I hope we see things play out a bit different this year with a lot of upsets...

How will you tell? Just curious. His involvement will be very helpful and I understand he'll hook up with them when they travel down here. Anyhow I tip the Sharks by 7. Sorry Paarl.

Traditional Sharks colors are black, grey and white. All the SA teams play in colors that are almost exactly the same as the Currie Cup unions. The only ones to change were the Stormers when they went for black. Some marketing person must have thought it would be fun to get everyone turn ot in...