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Slightly grizzly analogy, but here goes. I remember reading in a Jack Reacher novel years ago a description of how when the human body suffers a catastrophic heart attack, the brain will shut down the body to keep itself surviving for as long as possible, which perversely means that you're...

Just dislike or prejudice, eh? Then in the context of this scandal, if Folau is homophobic then he's also atheophobic, alcophobic, kleptophobic and if you take him at face value on the idolatry issue, probably Cathophobic and Buddhiphobic too. Whether or not that's better or worse than the...

So, here's another branding suggestion for GRR if they want to build bridges in Asia. Assuming Hong Kong is part of the comp next year, just call them the Hong Kong Tigers instead of the South China Tigers. Events there over the last week or so indicate that a team representing Hong Kong will go...

Well, it certainly delivered as a spectacle from a playing point of view, and if it were played at HBF Park with 10,000+ in the crowd it would have been the undisputed highlight of the rugby week. Beyond that, I also have to say that Bray and Turinui is far and away the least irritating...

What do we think, 1500?

The great shame for Australian rugby as a whole is we'll never know what that squad with that coaching team could have done in future seasons if they'd just been given a chance. They were the great improvers in Australian rugby in 2017, and even though they lost more than they won those losses...

Well, when the Force were axed the Waratahs got Rona and Newsome, the Brumbies got Naisarani and Peni, and the Rebels got everyone else who didn't go to Europe or stick it out in Perth and the Reds got SFA as far as I can recall. I find it hard to believe that the acquisition of a couple of...

Great example about the Socceroos. Under Ange Postecoglou we couldn't score except for penalties, under Van Marwijk at World Cup time we couldn't score except through penalties, and now Graham Arnold's the coach and we still can't f#&%en score! Add to that fact that none of the leading...

There's almost an institutional shortage of smarts right across Australian sport. Personally, I think it all comes down to too much emphasis on "sports science" and over-coaching, which means that the players themselves lose the ability or confidence to think on their feet, adjust and...

Where have you been for the last decade?

Can you just imagine how much less competitive the 'Tahs would be without the contraction of Australian teams?

Eh. Personally, this thread feels more like Purgatory to me.

You know there's a whole industry set up around the premise that corporations can persuade the public to adopt certain behaviours and attitudes? And a separate industry that allows corporations to influence government decision-making? Maybe it is all a load of rubbish, but it's rubbish that...

Look, I'm an agnostic who's received a strictly secular upbringing, but as someone who like millions of other Australians over the years received an excellent education in a Christian school, I know that's not only a cheap shot and strictly unnecessary, but just flat-out untrue.

Well, I hadn't really intended to say anything more about this myself but that was before Peter Beattie beclowned himself this week. I don't know if anyone caught it but he was interviewed by Chris Kenny on Wednsday and, in reference to rumours that Folau was interested in returning to Rugby...

Wow. If those are sacking offences for a player, you'd have to wonder what the administrators have written in their code of conduct given that none of them are out of a job.

Not to mention good old fashioned pride. There's a certain type of personality that will let the whole scene burn before they admit they got something wrong.

Because they're an inclusive organisation, Honey Badger. Keep up.

Spectacular if true.

Fiji are playing Samoa this Friday in Auckland, which I believe is the first GRR match on New Zealand soil. It's going to be broadcast on SBS Viceland, it's 15 bucks a ticket and there'll be a live music set, so it would be nice to see it get a respectable attendance.