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So the modus operandi is now to make our best players feel guilty when their contract expires? What a simply great approach.

But was it really a wrong call? The fact Roach was able to play on is somewhat irrelevant to the referee's call as the ref doesn't know at that juncture if the player can or can't continue playing. He heard a cry of anguish and reacted in what I'd say is the correct way. When play resumed, it...

^^^^^^^ my real concern would be that a significant number of our best would go offshore while most of the best ABs would remain chasing the black jersey. The competition could well end up more unequal than Super Rugby is at present.

I am more inclined to the view that we need a continuation of Super Rugby in some format because a purely domestic competition will really struggle to earn the type of dollars required to keep our better performers and coaches etc at home. However, it does look very likely that any TV deal post 2020 will...

1m English pounds are worth about $Aus1.7m at present exchange rates. Quite a good bit of moolah more than $700k in my books, even allowing for inflation in the intervening years. However, I do agree that Wendell was overpaid at $700k pa. He did lay on a good try or two in the 2003 RWC though.

1/ Sitting in the bar of the Walkabout pub in Temple, London in 2007 watching the Brumbies beat the Crusaders. 2/ Watching the Highlanders beat the Brumbies at the House of Pain in 2003. 3/ At Stadium Australia for the Wallabies' RWC semi final win over NZ in 2003.

And other forgettable converts, though probably not so highly paid: Blacklock, McLinden (or was it McFadden), Schifcofske. Anyone remember them?

I am with BH on this game. The refereeing made little difference. But I do have some sympathy for Shiggins' usual referee complaints as well. The standard of officiating in the NRC has been very poor imo. Luckily the players have approached the games with good intentions to just attack at all...

Just doesn't seem to have the pace or ability to take the line on to play 10 or 12 at Super Rugby level. Maybe convert him to a No 7?

That's a bloody good backrow, with Mowen also in the mix. Easy to see where some of our current problems in the Wallabies arose. Similarly with the potential No 10s; Lealiifano, To'omua and Lucas. Admittedly, not all down to ARU or national coaches, but still an indication that things could be a...

ILTW, I have no difficulty at all with the Fox streaming so long as my ISP is operating at a decent speed. Never had an issue of not being able to log on to the site or with losing picture. What annoys the fuck out of me is that when I connected IINET about three years ago, I was getting around...

Actually Ha'angana came off the bench and I think mostly packed down at No 6. But he is a big bloke all the same, just not as big as Latu-Meafou.

Sounds like the Matt To'omua of old. He did seem to ease off on defense a bit after a few head knocks out here.

I won't agree nor disagree about the amount of his contract JD. It just happens to be the agreed value between him and his employer in a free market situation. Isn't that what this country is all about? Bankers aside of course.

Slim, he would probably be worth more as a 7 than as an 8 also.

I think you are speaking with your tongue well and truly planted in the cheek BH, but I can see it now. The Brumbies win the Aus conference next year and it's all down to the easy schedule that have. Just like their under-representation at the national level is passed off this year.

It's really hard to keep the interest up, Dru. I have felt like pulling the plug myself a fair bit just recently, but intend to stick it out for the present though til I see where things are going and if they improve.

How many times does it need to be said that Pocock did not get $750k or anything for not playing. He and the ARU/Brumbies negotiated a two year contract worth $Xm which was spread over three years to allow him the sabbatical. It cost not a cent more for him to take the year off. Why is a...

At 6? Don't want to see Coleman/Arnold broken up again in the second row.

Sigh....