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True. A second kicker is always useful (ah for the days when we had a lock as a backup kicker). There is clearly some cases where 5/7 is a good option but most of the time, I'd take the 3 points. I think Australian teams just need to be better at taking the points. You are completely right...

Lol. A bit mean there. The latter will be pretty big though. If it actually does go through then it seriously puts the long term future of the SANZAAR partnership at risk. NZ might be stuck with either a trans tasman competition or to go it alone.

Pretty simple. Get Hodge to practice kicking until the cows come home. If a penalty comes which is by any means kickable kick for goal (some exceptions if you need more than 3 points but it would have to be late in the game) I've never understood our desire to try for the 25% chance of the...

Well, I think that is where some people want a complete destruction of the Rugby power in Australia as it is the only way they see that it can be rebuilt. It stuns me that there is the SRU, NSWRU and the ARU. The waste in duplication. The lack of any ability to have a strategic direction...

I completely agree with the ARU but then they are also not shy of taking risks and, if they feel necessary, causing damage to long term fans - I still know Fitzroy supporters who are still bitter. But I think it goes back to a long term strategic plan. Someone needs to come up with what they...

I thought Debreczeni was signing up with the Honda Heat. I'd sign up Hanson as he has been a good player in the past and we need a hooker. Maybe under a new coach he will do better.

Are Australian rugby fans that shallow and fickle? It isn't like Australia is that bad - we just play NZ a lot so we look worse. The Waratahs won super rugby a couple of years ago. The Brumbies top the Australian conference and aren't even bringing in 9000 for some of their games. I...

He is right in that replacing Pulver wouldn't magically fix Australian rugby's problems. There is no magic fix. It requires significant hard work, some appropriate risk taking, investment in the overall community and probably 5-10 years of time to get anywhere back to where Australian rugby...

Taking the conversation to something more important. I know that some of you saw the initial post by Tom. Here is the next post. http://openmybrain.com/2017/06/15/the-beginning/

Sorry Daz. I'll stop biting.

Let's rephrase as a Force team with some Rebels thrown in :D

Because the Rebels are the only ones actually signing players.

You are funny. Do you really think we want to keep Tony after this season? One team is publicly announcing that they are signing players and is engaging in searching for a new coach. The other isn't. The two options left are the Force goes or we keep 5 teams. I hope it is the later.

I'd be a 1. I can't see this being anything other than our worst season. Yes, there have been things out of our control but Tony is responsible for the overall performance.

Sigh. Compare to the 2003 Rugby World Cup where the lowest crowd was 15,457 at York Park in Launceston for Namibia v Romania

Makes sense. He was only 17 when he was in Perth so you would have expected him to be somewhere. Hale seems to be the obvious option based on its rugby history. Sad actually looking at the old forum posts on him. Such an exciting talent and then you hit the first arrest in December 2008...

Do all states want 4 franchises? I wasn't aware that the WARU and VRU wanted that. The Rebels apparently do, but they have a different ownership. The players are also going to lose out. The only winners will be the lawyers.

I completely agree but I was responding to BLR who was saying that it is the Rebels fault that they keep on losing players and I was wondering whether the same applied to the Force. I really worry about both the Rebels and Force next year. Hopefully we both survive but I'm not sure what sort...

So what is the reason that the Force is unable to retain their players?

Rubbish. The ARU did exactly what they did at the Force. Left them with the players that hadn't been signed up by other teams. Did nothing to encourage players to move to the new teams and when decent players looked like leaving either for overseas or other teams did absolutely nothing to...