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I've got a feeling Nick Phipps might be carrying an injury. He didn't get on the field against Sth Africa in the plate final last weekend and tonight he did not start against Wales.

Round 2 of the World Series kicks off today in George South Africa. Australia is fielding the same team that competed last weekend in Dubai (see below). They are favourably drawn in pool A alongside Wales, Scotland and France. They should win those matches and face either Samoa or Fiji in a...

This is a good pick up by Parramatta. He scored a try in the 7's Plate final against Sth Africa last weekend and moved from the bench at the start of the tournament to the starting line-up by tournament's end. Yakopo is also new to the Waratahs Academy. He has good pace, strong and has that...

Shaun Foley wore number 4. He missed two one-on-one tackles in the quarter against England. Beaten by pace both times when Ollie and Dan Caprice got on his outside. I don't think Foley has got the pace for sevens. Hamish Angus * 1 Trent Dyer * 2 Bernard Foley 3 Shaun Foley 4 John...

Big heads. The coach made them wear the "marmalade" coloured jerseys after that because they did not deserve to wear the white of England. Looks like it worked! But when are they going to wear white again?

I was very impressed with Ollie who was one of the players of the tournament. Great step, good speed and he made some good players look ordinary. Saw Johno Lance a bit on the Fox highlights and he went ok but I think fitness let him down a bit. He dropped off a couple of times in backing up...

England win qtr final 24-21 1st half 0:40 Oliver Lindsay-Hague ENG Try 1:15 Ben Gollings ENG ConMiss 2:16 Ben Gollings ENG Try 3:00 Ben Gollings ENG Conversion 4:18 John Grant AUS Try 4:46 Hamish Angus AUS Conversion 2nd half 1:47 John Grant AUS Try 2:23 Hamish Angus...

He has a sevens contract with the ARU as well as a contract with the Rebels. I think the ARU may have demanded his inclusion in the sevens because so much experience was lost after Delhi with players moving to Super 15 teams.

Starmers: Sevens stars to watch in Dubai Nick Phipps, Australia Coach Michael O'Connor always does an admirable job of shielding the new players from any kind of glare or false expectation, but at the same time you hear that John Grant scored six tries in the final of the Noosa Sevens in...

Aussies off to a flying start in Dubai defeating Scotland 41 -14. From IRB; Australia made the biggest impression in the opening round of pool matches, scoring no less than seven tries against Scotland, with six different scorers contributing to a 41-14 victory in Pool C. Pool C The...

Link's got a big gut

It's more about speed, power, strength and skills ......and as we saw today little blokes just love getting on top of their bigger opponents. The Wallaby backs would have just loved that talk all week about being beat up by their 100kg+ opponents. Thanks to our forwards our boys were able to...

How do you reckon today's crop of players would react to this Brock gem. John Welborn recalled before his first match against Queensland that Brockhoff was brought in to talk to the NSW players. Brock's speech went something like this: "It's in the noodle fellas. Passed down from God...

I think I remember reading that Brock instructed his troops to "kick anything above grass level".

I also thought Lachie Turner increased his chances for selection. He scored a good try by following Burgess and taking a difficult pass. He then came close to another try in the 55th minute when he chased his own grubber and won the race to the ball near the line, but knocked it on in the act...

Fair point

Some good performances by the forwards. No flair from our 10, 12 and 13. Burgess played well although I think Phipps should have been blooded.

Just plugged into this. How did Turner score his try?

I'm not sure 7's don't pay their way as you suggest TOCC. Big crowds at big stadiums (Wellington Feb '11 sold out in 4 minutes, 40,000 at Twickenham for the final day London Sevens). A multi-million dollar 5 year sponsorship by HSBC, the 6th biggest bank in the world. Add to that the TV...