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Maybe, but the most striking moment to me about the England game was that when we were 16-27 down, with 24 minutes on the clock and a dead-cert three points on offer, neither of the commentators who played in the Wallabies' golden years advocated taking the points.

Given that it's routine to assess presidents and prime ministers on their performance after 100 days, I think it's fair to say you can form an impression of how a sports executive is doing after nearly two years in the role.

Honestly I think what's happening in Hong Kong is casting a huge shadow over GRR's plans. Hong Kong (or South China Tigers) is clearly an integral part of Twiggy's plans for the Asian side of the tournament and it's nigh-on impossible to know what the situation will be like there next year. The...

Wow. If that's an economist's prediction, the All Blacks are screwed.

I've got to say that the recruitment of Shaun Berne back to Australian shores a couple of years ago looks like one of the most astute signings any Australian coach has made in years.

Good. Another day without an announcement and I was going to have to start dipping into the Fringe well as a source of rumour and speculation. I don't know how the Prime and Alternate teams were going to handle the home and away travel issue.

I'd say more but you'd just think I was talking out of Uranus.

Allrighty! The Martians will provide the eighth side for GRR. As we all know, rugby has been thriving on the Red Planet since Arnie terraformed it back in the 80s, and what with the encouraging progress made by the SpaceX programme organisers are very confident that they can resolve the travel...

Regardless, the lack of concrete information being put out is deeply disappointing.

I think we're all as much in the dark as you are, to be honest. I would have hoped to hear something a little more concrete by now.

I think an initial six of: Force Fiji Samoa Japanese side Hong Kong Singapore would probably be the way to go. Of course, if RA were at all supportive of GRR you think they'd at least endorse a Barbarians-style side to be based at a venue of their choice, giving non-Super-aligned players...

Wow. I thought getting Wolfmother was a pretty good effort.

I think the ACL made an initial $100k donation, and the rest of it was donated by about 20,000 other individuals.

What, have the well-connected board of Rugby Australia actually do something proactive and use their connections for fundraising? You're kidding, right? Seriously, I remember Alan Jones asking Cameron Clyne why he wasn't doing just that during the height of the Force axing when the financial...

I think the ACL would argue that their charitable purpose is about protecting the interests of Christianity in matters related to public policy (the "L" stands for "Lobby" after all) so I'd say that they're well and truly fulfilling their purpose in supporting a case which they'd argue has...

Anyway, one of the benefits of GRR is how it could improve the depth of the Pacific nations. Lo and behold, four GRR players (three from the Force, one from the Dragons) have been called up for Samoa: Congratulations to them all.

Just responding to Braveheart's overall point, Slim. As I said, I'm fine with boys and girls playing rugby together at that age. I just think the reasoning for these Sports Australia guidelines is a little off, that's all.

That might be true, but it doesn't really matter how rare it is or how sincere transgender athletes are in their transformation. The fact remains that biological males in general have real physical advantages over women, and allowing them to compete as women is grossly unfair to female athletes...

I thought all sports were. Certainly I played with girls in my soccer and cricket teams at that sort of age (in fact, the cricketer was one of our best players). That said, if RA adopts this policy they could be opening a real can of worms because eventually they'll come under pressure to let...

Oh, c'mon. If greater money spent = greater interest then Clive Palmer would be running the country. Besides, any time private ownership (ie private money) has been mooted as a solution to Australian rugby's problems you've gone on about how "the game isn't for sale." Anyway, the Force got...