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Yep, neither Hooper nor McMahon have much (any?) experience at 8 in internationals.

So RE Pocock's knee incident, to me it looks like he's using his knee as a lever point to push himself away from the Wales player. So he puts his knee on his chest, then pushes himself back, and the player can't follow him with the hold, since his knee in the way. Doesn't seem like a 'strike' to...

Never mind, found one, albeit crappy quality. Crisis averted!

Does anyone know an alternative streaming service? My TV is broken and was relying on Foxtel Go. Can't watch it at the moment, and I'm going slightly insane...

I agree, judiciaries, whilst necessary, often punish things inefficiently I think. With this example, Hooper and the Wallabies get punished, but England, who were wronged, don't see any benefit. If this really should have been a red card offence, the two referees should be heavily lambasted for...

If calls like that are going to be made (which I think they should), they need to be called consistently across the entirety of every game and to the letter of the law. The English would be right to be annoyed if it was called, because I'm sure you could find 20 other examples of it in other...

Bonus points could matter a lot in this game. If Scotland beats Japan (expected), and both beat the US and Samoa, and Scotland loses to SA, second place will come down to the BPs earned. If Japan can stay within 7, it should be considered a very good result for them. South Africa picking up the...

Those numbers seem relatively positive to me. No Australian games and most of them in the middle of the night and still getting ~40-50,000. It's a shame they couldn't squeeze Australia-Fiji into a 9pm slot, as it would have suited time zones for both countries better than the 1:45am/3:45am game...

??? He's had an objectively poor game

And it's quite difficult to keep someone with potential but no runs on the board. Look at Taqele Naiyarovoro, lots is being done to try and keep him, but there is a lot of push back on it, saying money should be invested in the grass roots, only players with passion for the jersey should get a...

It all depends on how much it cost I think. The Tahs probably weren't going to be able to splash out on a top international prospect, so if you can get Guildford for a song, it seems like a good deal. Here's to hoping he stays out of trouble.

I'd imagine it's just easier, and for all intents and purposes it's the same to anyone not relatively well versed with either game. The missus knows both games, but wouldn't be able to tell you which is which if you put a random game of one or the other on.

We could keep Folau, but let, say Adam Ashley Cooper, Tetera Faulkner, James O'Connor, Sam Carter and Scott Higginbotham play overseas (just picking one from each franchise). That frees up space that would otherwise be used on their contracts to be spent on ensuring we keep guys like Folau and...

In terms of football's "cheapness", this actually is a factor for the FFA. When football came to popularity around the 2006 world cup, they had ~4-5 genuine superstars of the Israel Folau ilk (and even bigger), and as opposed to paying them more than $1 million a year, they payed them (relative)...

I thought it ran to 2031? After a bit of digging: http://www.treasury.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/19285/Stadium_Australia_updated_contracts_summary_June_2002.pdf The link is to the contract with ANZ stadium (not certain if it's the most current). Page 24 runs through the...

Conspiracy theory moment: The South Africans paid off Eddie Jones with a juicy Stormers contract to actively sabotage the Japanese Super team. This was done to ensure the team would never be finalised, and Japan couldn't enter a team. The plan being, with Japan pulling out, the South Africans...

Very true, apparently this effect means that professional players in most sports disproportionately have birthdays in the first quarter of the year. The mechanism is that, once you get picked in rep teams with better players, you learn more as a player and have a higher chance of success further...

I have found across a number of sports that schoolboy rep selections are pretty much universally terrible. I'm not certain of why but I have a few theories: There's no real recourse for doing poorly. In rep teams, coaches tend to rotate anyway, so results don't matter a huge amount...

Is McCalman's lineout work that much better than Palu's? I ask that honestly, not as a leading question. I haven't seen much lineout work from him, but I also only watched a handful of Force matches this year. My understanding was that they were both pretty average in that regard. As for Palu...

This is the reason why I think Toulon has been so cut throat with QC (Quade Cooper) and Leinster with Kane Douglas. A lot of people were saying "why would you keep a player who doesn't want to be there?" and I think a big part of the answer is that otherwise a lot of other players might suddenly start deciding...