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So. What's happening?

Except for games of touch footy right....;)

A lot of parents out there have kids who show promise and who love the game. When you were a Junior (ie from u12 up), what did you do/play outside of Rugby that you think contributed to the skills and ability you have now?

I just watched an interview with him done as he left hospital. He sounded good - no facial paralysis, no slurring, no apparent cognitive issues. He said the damage was to the back right of his brain and affected the visual cortex so his left field of vision is basically gone, but he thinks it's...

What a circus. The problem is you just get to a point where you don't care anymore. I feel like "whatever" now with this Genia saga. Just do something, make it stick and lets deal with whatever that is.

Look, a little cloak and dagger and argy bargy is inevitable in professional sports. Plus team management, players etc occasionally jump the gun, demonstrate poor judgement, act without discretion etc. As long as it doesn't get out of control or descend into unethical behaviour it's just part of...

So he's staying now? FFS. Now I have to spend an hour reading this scuttlebutt and for what? What a massive roller coaster and all you get is back to the start and a little dizzy. I have to admit, right or wrong, fair or otherwise, I think the whole thing has changed the way I feel about Will...

Of course technique is important. Strength is useless if you're applying it all wrong and a simple thing correct body position can make a huge difference to the force transmitted. However, all things being equal, the same player with the same technige is going to be better if he's stronger -...

Have you been getting assessed by someone reliable every week over, say a 6 month period during which other variables (like variations in diet) have been basically removed?

You don't train for a pointless exercise - you train to build strength, which makes you more effective at Rugby. The inevitable consequence of more strength is bigger muscles.

Kebabs can be quite a decent and nutritious meal :-) The session and pinching was on Tuesdays, the booze was usually consumed Saturdays, until I knocked it off completely in Sheer frustration at the gains I was losing and the progress I was reversing. At one pint I worked out that had I not...

No - I'm measuring body composition, and it was a few days after the night before. I trained and got pinched on Tuesdays, then tained again Fridays. Measurement is Body Fat and Lean Body mass - Ie Muscle. And for any individual, strength is directly related to muscle mass.

Here - read this - http://lablaundry.blogspot.com.au/2009/07/alcohol-body-decompositioning-magic.html

Not much. Depends on the idividual, but I have seen my own lean body mass drop 3% from one night drinking say 10 standard drinks and at the same time my bodyfat percentage go up 2%. From 1 night on the turps. I have seen it go 2%/1% from 3 drinks.

We disagree on a lot of stuff. Pretty much all of it by the looks. Too hard to discuss on here.

No Free to Air, no decent Highlights even at a reasonable hour, little if any coverage in network Sports sections on TV news programs. If you're a fan, you need to seek it out online basically or get Foxtel. And some of it is "our fault". If there were more fans watching it on TV, there...

Jeese, people seem to think you'll train a bit and suddenly get so huge it'll be a problem. Two hard and really heavy weight sessions a week (as heavy as the person can go with a structure to build the weight) for up to 90 minutes each with proper recovery and the right diet (obviously diet is...

I'm just glad something is being done. It needs to be.

Lacerated Livers, Broken Collarbones, every second knee - Bejeebus.

I'm all for a review and it absolutely needs a restructure, but this doesn't look like the right execution team.