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Keep up the regular updates, I'll be interested to see how the team from my old hometown (Parkes) go.

On Saturday night driving home from the stadium listening to 666 ABC Canberra I heard Marco Caputo drop a corker about Cipriani. "The Rebels spent big money on Cipriani and judging from what I've heard on the grapevine, his best performances in Melbourne have been off the field." Tim Gavel, the...

When they ran out on Saturday I thought "what, is this a Brumbies v Raiders match?"

That looks like turning out to be a Jake White masterstroke - his captaincy has been excellent so far.

Red Baron, you have a bit more analysis on the game than my earlier post and it's exactly my assessment. I'm looking forward to heading out to Canberra Stadium next Saturday. A win will be a good birthday present.

All the elements are there that the Brumbies lacked last year: Heart - the 2011 team would have given up after the Chiefs' first try, but they came back and scored themselves Commitment - the intensity was there was the full 80 minutes and the body language was positive Technique - the scrum...

Although the Brumbies didn't win that one there were a lot of positives. Everyone expected the Chiefs to run rampant but they were constrained by tight defence and the Brumbies forwards more than matched them in some aspects. Mogg played well at fullback, Lilo did well at dix despite that howler...

Which was a bit disappointing given it was a Saturday afternoon but probably not unexpected as it was a long weekend and half of Canberra had headed down Clyde Mountain to the coast.

Thanks. It's currently forecast to be fine and in the mid 20s, so it should be good conditions after all the rain we've had in recent weeks. Hopefully I'm acclimatised as I've recently returned from six weeks in Japan and Canada. I played a game in Vancouver in 5 degrees and rain and then had a...

If you're going to the game on Saturday try to get there a little earlier to see the ACT Veterans take on the Navy Old Salts. We're kicking off at 1:30pm.

That would be a great initiative. I remember that David Campese used to play rugby for the Whites when he was in high school but had to play league for QHS as the school did not have a rugby team.

Which is why websites like Pro-Direct will prosper. They have a warehouse in a small town in Devon and can ship a jersey to an Australian address for less than half the price of a retail outlet here. Even if the dollar depreciates 20% it's still attractive pricing. Manufacturers and retailers...

I went along to the forum last night and BJ's summary in this thread and the blog post is fairly well on the mark. I think that the prevailing attitude of the members who attended was a willingness to learn about the plans for 2012 rather than seeking recriminations for 2011. The contrast with...

Having grown up in Christchurch, I'm sure he would find Wagga Wagga to be very cosmopolitan in comparison. BTW, being a local surely you would know this

Someone at the airline (I'd think it was Emirates) has a strange sense of humour putting Sam Warburton and Vincent Clerc in seats beside each other on their flight from Auckland after the World Cup.

Que? The Chiefs' home ground is Waikato Stadium in Hamilton, not Forsyth-Barr in Dunedin.

It's a bit like the Sno-Info forum every May, when everyone is suffering SDS (snow deprivation syndrome) and the rate of trolling and arguing goes up.

It was a good sledge because it still rankles Kiwis eight years later. Then again it might just be the national psyche, they're still going on about the underarm incident 30 years after it happened.

Agreed, "four more years" is sooooo 2003.

Not on the opening night of the RWC they didn't, due to drunken idiots activating emergency stops and a lack of tracks to get around the stopped trains.