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One thing the discussion needs to remember is that the outlier is with the lack of penalties given and not the amount of penalties awarded. Although SA refs award (only slightly) more penalties in general it’s the considerably less amount of penalties awarded to the home side. Almost as if one...

Be warned the telegraph is throwing another hefty shot at RA tomorrow with an article on Folau. All seems to be conveniently timed with these broadcast rights tussle going on.

I’d like to see 1 Gibbon 2 Rangi (Only cause Uelese can be eased off the bench) 3 Smith 4 Jones 5 Philip 6 Wells 7 Hardwick 8 Naisarani 9 Louwrens 10 Deegan 11 Koroibete 12 To'omua 13 English 14 Kellaway 15 DHP 16 Uelese 17 Orr 18 Anyone but Ainsley, is Fa’amasuili fit yet? 19 Koegelenberg 20...

I have already thrown a few bids on. Just don’t outbid me lol

They were from the official super rugby website. Looking at the stats it actually not the penalties that are been awarded, its the lack of penalties to the home team that is the outlier. Given the large sample size (n = 25+ for all metrics looked at) all metrics bar 1 fall within the same range...

Harrison is classify a starter. Overall I think he’s been okay in a side with the worst performing pack in Super Rugby. Lolesio has been good but I don’t think he’s been superb either, which is understandable given age and experience. We did see him on the back foot against the Highlanders and it wasn’t...

Hodge is out for over a month, the loss of Maddocks and Semisi Tupou is still carrying an injury. Harry Potter would be the next cab off the rank then you’d be looking at Glen Vaihu after that, so very shallow

Super Rugby unfortunately goes all the way back to the Super League war in Rugby League where League was poised to in mass sign Wallaby and All Blacks players over their struggling for who will play ARL and Super League. This lead to the major SH Union bodies coming together to decide to go...

We have signed Tom Pincus from Bristol as injury cover for the remainder of the year. Ex-QLD country and also played in eng championship before moving to Bristol. Wasn’t getting many opportunities there. He’s a wing/fullback btw

16 players is a great effort.

It would be, but they corporate dollars would be based on people wanting to invest in brands/areas where they can get positive returns. Small towns in NZ wouldn’t be ideal for that (the afl would have teams in Ballarat, Hobart and Bendigo if that was the case), the increase would have to come...

Neighboring towns and infrastructure around Bath is considering larger or more advanced than what’s on offer in smaller towns in Aus or NZ. Opposing fans been able to travel to the game and towns within an hour drive of the Rec would make that 88k population dramatically increase. The extra...

Having to mastermind my next downfall. In all honesty I have prior commitment in Geelong. Going from Melbourne to Ballarat back to Melbourne then Geelong then back to Melbourne would be a stretch too far for the day.

Let’s live in the real world, in no reality can NZ afford any more than the current 5 sides. The 6th biggest city in NZ would have less people than some suburbs in Sydney. Equally any competition that doesn’t have the Brumbies, Reds or Tahs brands would fail miserably. 11 teams (5 Aus, 5 NZ, 1...

Is there anyone that knows of someone in ballarat that would be interested in going to the game tomorrow? Unfortunately I cannot go, so I have two memberships that could be used if it appeals to anyone.

The stats are pretty damming, especially when you consider in a 2 horse race the one team has won 27 of the last 29 penalty counts. Now I’m not saying it’s cheating as I believe the game is better than that, but equally it isn’t a coincidence either. Thats a 7% chance of going to SA and getting...

Only thing that annoys me about mauls is that it can be pushed backwards straight off the lineout then the opposition regathers and then 5 seconds later they get forward momentum. To me that shouldn’t be allowed and they should be made to use the ball immediately

I actually think most penalties in some of these lopsided games are valid. It’s the incredible attention on one side and not the other that frustrates me. Today was a prime example of it. You could make an argument for most of the pens, yet there seemed to be a reduced focus on the home side...

Penalty counts over the 3 Arg games are 11-7 (2018), 12-7 (2019), 13-3 (2020). Todays one was the 5th biggest margin in that time. Argentina is a small sample. Say they lose the next count 8-5 it does bring the average down quickly The +19 game I’m pretty sure was the Rebels at Lions where the...

Yeh sure 1) Just the penalty count 2) yes 16 more penalties than the opponent across the entire sample 3) yes individual games. SA teams had a game where their team won the penalty count by 19 and likewise an Aus team lost a penalty count by 10 at home. The most throughout the sample The most...