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Re: three phases - I can't show the source data from Super Rugby and World cup tournaments right now, so do treat it with 1g QID of skepticism, but I have seen it before (there's bound to be an L3 coach on here who probably has it sitting in the dank depths of their hard drive). Basically most...

So they don't go by the modern chestnut that teams are less likely to score after holding the ball for more than three phases?

BAM. And it goes beyond today's game; Scotland played quite well. We lack footballing brains. Our teams have 'playing styles' and 'game plans', but the last Australian team I saw that actually seemed able to read a football game was the Reds under McKenzie (and that's not just my Qld...

Like he did in 2014?

Subbies flame warz lol

It's not always easy to pick form in these games, some teams have come in hot, while others have had to find their feet. But I look at the score England put on Samoa in their first match, and worry about how difficult we found the going in the first 40 minutes of this match.

AIC old boy myself here, and we have to remember that these things come in swings and roundabouts. When the AIC was formed, nobody would have anticipated Padua, St Pats, and St Eddies winning 1st XV premierships, or an extended period of neither St Laurence's nor Ashgrove winning or sharing...

Kenya to win the Africa qualifiers? Have you seen the results thus far?

Hmm. Not really convinced that DP would want to be the All Blacks' gimp for a week.

This. We all know that subbies refs give their saturday arvos so we can play. So of course they're going to miss hand in the ruck, backs creeping up at the line out, or the ball being taken back into the 22 (especially when those awful soccer markings are on the field as well). But I do get...

'Would Dundas want to throw their guys into 1sts?' is the question.

I'll go a step further than DP and suggest that the system of bulk derbies and rewarding mediocrity with home finals is part of our malaise.

PB, I can't speak for others here, but I'm not so much concerned about the opposition that NSW lost to, as the manner of the capitulation.

I believe it is a primate; please see the attached image.

King oath!

I'm truly speechless.

Keep fighting the good fight. ARU notwithstanding, kids who start in rugby tend to stay in rugby - the sport actually has a culture. Most of those kids playing soccer are forced to by their mums, and end up giving the game away when they're old enough to realise how basic and inconsequential...

Running from the top - no, nothing against the Shute Shield competition, just a bit rich that some sections of a semi-professional competition feel a need for funding, when there are other areas of community rugby that are in far more dire need of support. I don't disagree with providing...

Back to the howls about 'grassroots rugby' from those involved in the semi-professional Shute Shield. Why do we never seem to hear this from the Subbies club officials (Hello, Pfitzy!), the SJRU or BJRU, or even Queensland Premier Rugby clubs? I could be completely misguided, but I fail to...

Funny, I seem to recall that the Waratahs took seven seasons to crack the super 12 finals, despite the advantages being a traditional rugby state, having the Shute Shield for development, and having the luxury of casting of quality players to ACT. The NSWRU also required an ARU bailout in the...