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Good for Folau, and good for the Dragons. Not a lot of sports clubs around the world would have the courage to risk a social media backlash by signing someone so controversial. If he holds to his word then I hope he wins them matches for seasons to come.

Nice way to let the cat out of the bag. Anyway, you know a competition is truly up and running when its teams have their own Wikipedia pages, so here's the competition so far (squad lists included, though not sure how reliable the Valke one is): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fijian_Latui...

That is good news. I wonder though if any young Auckland players who get caught shirking their training will be sent to Siberia?

I rate Koroibete. I said I was surprised that he didn't score more during the super rugby season. But this is a hypothectical team made up of players based on their super rugby form, and I was struck by the fact that on the face of it none of the players who made it had a great impact on the...

Well, six tries each ... That surprises me from Koroibete especially. And Jock Campbell, two tries from nine games - a few years ago you could have named the like of Drew Mitchell, Cameron Shepherd, Rod Davies, Lote Tuqiri for a Super all-star team like that. It feels like we've taken a step...

The thing that strikes me about that team is that there's not too much strike power in the outside backs.

Apparently sales skyrocketed after a short-lived experiment called New Yenda.

I remember this old movie Black Robe, where this Jesuit missionary was travelling through North America during colonial times. In one scene he was discussing the Native American afterlife with another European and I have to say the Native American version sounded a lot more appealing than the...

Well, if we wait long enough I'm sure some Russian guy will post link after link to free bondage porn, thus rescuing this thread.

Ah, the NBA, where you can say anything you like, as long as communist China approves.

Good article. Interestingly though Rita Panahi opposes the government's proposed religious freedom bill on the grounds that it might backfire and (I think) make it easier for organisations to exclude people who don't share their beliefs.

Just for a bit of respite: I don't know if there are any other Joan Jett fans here, but I saw this video for the first time the other day and it brought a smile to my face. It's about the dangers of oversharing on social media which is very relevant to this scandal (and a pretty good tune too)...

Thank you.

Right. The bushfire comments. Look, like I'm sure pretty much everyone else who heard that, I thought it was appalling. But it was also entirely unsurprising. Folau evidently thought he was being punished - persecuted, even - for his beliefs. You know what people do in that situation? A lot of...

None were named but I posted a link to a Daily Telegraph article upthread.

If RA just wanted to watch some footy they wouldn't have sacked Folau in the first place. They could have just said we don't agree with his beliefs but we respect his right to share them on his own social media, endured a couple of weeks of criticism from the Twitterverse, and weathered it out...

At the end of the day, Folau got the apology he wanted and apparently he got his contract paid out, or close to it. Rugby Australia, even though they got a resolution, had to pay out millions of dollars in compensation and now have to face days, weeks or even months of speculation as to exactly...

I get the distinct impression that Peter Fitzsimons only sees the world the way he wishes it to be, not the way it actually is, which is why he tends to be reliably wrong on pretty much every prediction he makes.

Personally I don't know why the amount of the settlement has to be kept confidential anyway. Of course people are going to speculate, and Castle saying $8m is "wildly inaccurate" is only going to fuel more speculation.

I think RA also would have been keen to spare themselves this spectacle: Link to the article here: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/rugby/rugby-world-cup-2015/news/israel-folau-files-new-14m-lawsuit-against-aru-over-sacking/news-story/18939b67f39405e891d8f419c020f010