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It's a loss leader & while it's true most Super Rugby players go from school to Super Rugby academies I think there's still enough talent coming out of the Provinces to keep treating it as such.

Best he doesn't go swimming, then, someone might mistake him for a dolphin or even a baby whale...

NPC Unions are non-profit orgs whereas NZR's stated goal is for all Super Rugby franchises to be at least partly privately owned & very much for profit. Not sure how you'd go about merging them or even why given NZR's community game/ professional game model & governance structures.

Marc Hinton, who tends to be right more often than wrong when it comes to stuff like this, reports that sky are offering $85Mn p.a. for the 2026-30 rights cycle which is a major reduction from the current ~111Mn p.a...

This was a result the comp needed however much I wish it was at the expense of the other Auckland-based team. the way to beat Moana (& away-from-home Drua) is early points. If you don't do that they start to believe in themselves & look out. This Crusaders team was never coming back from 10-28...

Would you prefer the ref call "held" & require the ball carrier to, 'ow you say, Play The Ball?

Yes, that one. Live I also thought he got his knee more or less immediately to ground but the replay seemed pretty conclusive that he didn't.

Clarification on the situation in 'canes v 'tahs where 'cane made a choke tackle; ref called maul; and 'tah then got a knee to ground. Caused some consternation on the match thread but I thought it was a pretty standard collapsed maul therefore turnover?

@Strewthcobber and/ or @Wilson will know. Hopefully both so Rhino can blend their thoughts like a master blenderer...

Would come under "targeting the lower limbs" wouldn't it?

Auckland Council have voted 17-2 to spend $110Mn of Gov't money to install retractable seats on one side of Eden Park. Rugby configuration: Cricket configuration: Didn't commit to the $282Mn spend on putting a roof on it, though:

CRUSADERS (1-15): George Bower, Ioane Moananu, Fletcher Newell, Scott Barrett, Jamie Hannah, Cullen Grace, Ethan Blackadder, Fletcher Anderson, Noah Hotham, James O'Connor, Macca Springer, David Havili (c), Dallas McLeod, Chay Fihaki, Will Jordan Replacements: Codie Taylor, Tamaiti Williams...

Would the Italian players change jerseys but not ends at half time? Maybe some Turks could sub in for them...

Graphic on tonight's Crowd Goes Wild: WANTED FOR MURDER AT EDEN PARK THE CRUSADER GANG

Just one game this week: Saturday 29/03 Crusaders v Moana 19:05 NZDT In which CruSadists COULD* go top-of-the table IF* they secure a bonus point AND* Reds do not v Force immediately after. * gotta keep the Hubris Police aka @Wilson happy after my whoopsie the other week wrt Reds win/ loss...

^ knows how to close a game out, something Kemara nor Reihana can (yet?) do. That said I'd persevere with either of the younger guys starting & JOC (James O'Connor) finishing.

He's going alright for an old bloke, isn't he?

That's just cruel

This just in from Stern Vern