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That's a really good idea actually. Thanks.

Separate topic, my boy is trying out for the City Districts u12 team tomorrow afternoon. He'd be playing up a year if he gets in so I don't have any expectations. What are they looking for mainly at these trials? I've told him to make sure his work rate is high and that he shows good...

Some of the BJRU refs are great, most are ok, some are just shockers. What you can do about the shockers is the problem. I mean, as a parent what do you do? Video the entire game (the footage would be often of dubious value in terms of actually showing anything) and then analyze it with a...

If this was an education issue with kids from different schools or different teachers getting marked harder or softer, then the answer devised was moderation where the work of one student is compared to another and the results looked at. In my day we had, for example, ASAT exams that ranked...

Bru, you say that change needs to start from the ground up, but then cite the IRBs success with spear tackles which is very much top down. In my experience, the sort of reform we're talking about here MUST be top down. The process we're discussing is an adjudication process, effectively a...

If you have a tough conference you'll kill it against the other conferences teams then won't you? Get BPs and everything. The answer is more games so every team plays every other team home and away. Then the relative strength of the conferences is irrelevant.

There is no justice when one player gets yellow carded in a vital match for 10 minutes and suspended for a crucial finals game for the same type of offense that is not even reported in another instance in the same game. When the consequences are so dire the expectation of and right to just...

Awesome vids!

Principal contact with the chest with the tackled player in a squat sufficiently deep to have his thigh parallel with the turf. Bullshit decision.

The whole thing is a bloody joke. Seriously. Freaking nanny state BS. Citing and suspensions should be reserved for deliberate and clearly reckless hits that are nasty, not stuff like this with a tackled player dropping substantially into the tackle and impact clearly across the top of the...

That's a bad example. Sir Ritchie needs about 20 Yellows for No reason just to even out his Infraction Karma.

There are tin foil murmurings at LU that the Tahs threw the match because it's worth more to the ARU for the Reds to be in the finals with a home game at a packed Suncorp Stadium than a scraggle in the ACT. Points to the lack of discussion about a Brumbies team making the finals for the first...

It doesn't deserve any suspension. He got 10 minutes in the bin. It was penalized. It was not intentional, the tackled player dipped significantly into the impact, which wasn't that high anyway.

Straight from the Harvard Business School best selling "How To Let Infighting And Ego Ruin Your Organization And Take Everyone Down With You".

I reckon the Reds

Sorry, in my view BB was at a deep squat at impact and QC (Quade Cooper) came in at a height that would have been fine on anyone other than BB in a squat or Peter Dinklage at full stretch.

Look at around 23 seconds..BB is basically in a full squat. His thigh is parallel to the ground at impact. That's more than a "dip" into the tackle.

We got to our seats as they kicked off. I missed all of that.