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Japan and Georgia makes zero sense. You're better off scheduling Russia and Georgia (since they're right next to each other and all) and Japan and a PI nation.

The nature of the posts makes me think that he's probably a teenager of some sort, so I'd be inclined to say mate, younger brother or something like that. Not that I think talking a player up on here would achieve much at all.

Moorabbin is in the South East. Not a good option. Aside from that, it depends on how established you want the club to be. Footscray only recently regained its place in premier division. If it keeps going well by the time your young'un is up there it could be a successful team but its not...

I'm curious, what did people think of West Harbour's front row this year?

I dunno. You could make an argument that NZ's choking is historically limited only to the quarters and semis.

Turner and Hodgson called up: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-02/turner-hodgson-to-join-wallabies/3205650

Link is dead now, and I couldn't find it with a manual search. May have changed his mind. Not sure if I am happy to have someone who is not 100% interested though. Edit: Although SMH has an article on it...

I see where you're going with that! Sort of like the shaking hands after a match bit.

Nobody was always quite the erudite individual. I am not sure if he has quite the same mass appeal as Adam, but his articles are good.

With all due respect to the more balanced NZ supporters here, is it a NZ national pastime to hate on Stu Dickinson? Edit: I think I am a little miffed because of the sneering disrespect in this post. The bloke was a international quality ref for a good while and is now stepping down. Even if...

That does certainly work with our structures. We will be playing with a 6-1 bench split or thereabouts though.

Now that you point it out, I am inclined to agree. It could just be that Mr. Roland makes enough during his day job that he is happy to take a 'pay cut' during his 'holiday'. Or he could just love reffing and as per above, is in the fortunate position to be able to financially entertain it...

I'd be inclined to get an outside back for the russia game, then reassess where we stand re: injuries after that. A tier 1 nation lining up a no.8 on the wing (despite his prior experience there) is embarrassing. It says an awful lot about our belief in our depth back at home. Players coming...

From my experience with props and ball running, avoiding tackles is not an issue.

To add to why this would not be a 'weakening' of the scrum. In a recent interview (that I can't find :( ) of either the Argentine scrum coach or one of their props, the person involved in the interview admitted that the bajada no longer works because of the focus on the hit these days. There's...

For the sake of pedantry Lee, you can make an analogy between the early engage as current and the early shove, which existed in the pre-form scrum days. If I remember correctly, a drive before the ball was in the scrum was a FK. In those days it was more a case of watching and timing your...

He could go to a saffa team. Iirc, they're less fussy about imports.

It has been done. http://www.melbournerebels.com.au/News/ArticleDetails/tabid/270/ArticleID/4433/Default.aspx Starting to have a LOT of depth in the midfield, yeah.

They only ever hired 8 of the 10 foreigners they were allotted. That was going to drop to 8 this year, but they've lost both Yoda and Kevin O'Neill iirc. So they should have room for another international signing.

He's doing his best to do the opposite at the moment.