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Yeah, I'm not suggesting a continuous declaration of everyone's conflicts of interest, no need for that. The Rogers-Levi one just stood out for me. I actually think it's to the show's benefit that the participants have strong ties to rugby admin, it's just reasonable to acknowledge those in some...

Amazing - should be in all threads.

Mat Rogers is always interesting, has some genuinely different and useful perspectives, but he was asked on Inside Line this week if he'd pick Maddie Levi in the Wallaroos - c'mon, surely someone on that program has to point out that he's her manager.

It'd be an awesome experience, but I've always felt like American football would be a pretty dull game to play professionally - training must be just endless repetition of route-running and blocking.

Tight end is a pretty skilful position, in terms of understanding responsibilities for blocking, receiving. Hard to believe Jordy can pick that up in 6 months, but nevertheless, good on him.

Because in the stadium, you're still miles away from the action? Seems like a terrible stadium for rectangular games.

Happliy surprised that Bell and Tupou are still in the line-up, though they were due to be rested. Aside from hooker, a pretty strong team. Amatesero must be on the outer, he's not injured.

Cheik

Mo Longbottom must have the best pass in Australian rugby. Great game for 3rd, well done.

As I understand the Wallaby rest requirements, Bell and Tupou have to be rested next week at least. Seems like McKellar mostly went with resting the backline Wallabies this week, perhaps more rotation in the forwards next week.

Good to see Foketi coming back via the bench. Sinclair goes from captain to left out completely.

With the defensive ability they're now showing, they should just be kicking deep and challenging teams to start from their own 22, rather than these remarkably low percentage midfield bombs.

Yep. McKellar was vague in the press conference, "not long term". So I'd assume it'll be about 4 weeks or more, since that's what he said about Sualii as well.

No, I want the OG Tah Man, jumping out of a Black Hawk helicopter with the game ball. No messing around.

The Tah Bar not doing it for you?

Was the TMO's reluctance to upgrade to red just because the camera angles weren't great? From what I saw, the way he lunged forward looked nasty, and he probably couldn't have hit anything but head, but there just wasn't a clear angle of the impact.

Gotta say, I'm loving the passion in this thread, surely that's a positive indicator for the health of the competition. Even if most people are just arguing over which Qld coach is worse.

Do you mean the situation where Scotland were penalised after driving the French player into touch? I thought that was harsh - the ref called "tackle" a split-second before the French player went into touch, I don't think the tacklers could have been expected to stop quickly enough after that call.

No, can’t do that for spring tour games: might end up with that English commentator who is an absolute punish on 6 Nations games. Dewi Morris, I think?

That's such great content from the Marlins, reminding us all that some Shute Shield clubs still can't see beyond their own picket fences. Now: "We're into the 20th year of our 2 year plan for a few Shute Shield clubs to be the dominant force in Australian sport. We just need to throw off the...