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David Wilson (68)
^^^Alas, the article is behind Rupert's pay wall. I get the gist of it from the headline though.
Former Wallabies assistant coach and Test representative Jim Williams has joined the Greater Sydney Rams for this year's National Rugby Championship. Williams replaces Brian Melrose in the role and joins Waratah Jed Holloway as a new face around the clubhouse. Holloway joins NSW teammate Hugh Roach at the club, as well as Chris Alcock (Force), Guy Millar (Force), Jed Gillespie (Rebels) and Steve Mafi (Force). This could be a big year for the NRC, as it will be the only rugby played domestically during the World Cup. The new SANZAR broadcast deal has shored up the competition's future until at least 2020, and a concerted publicity campaign - and some good rugby - could be the third-tier competition's best chance of thriving.
GR:
Bit of a hint GR, Holloway was at the club last year and was the captain.
Didja spot the piece earlier in the week from GeeRob where she had the Brumbies playing on Friday night giving the Tahs 24 hours' notice of what result's required? Check here: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/w...ash-with-queensland-reds-20150609-ghk16d.html That's simply sloppy journalism and/or incompetent fact-checking by the sub-editors. Spiro's starting to make a lot of similar minor mistakes in his dotage.
"third-tier competition", to be fair to GR that's a term we all use in the context of the rugby vernacular. "National Rugby Championship" was written earlier in the article, it's good writing not to use the same words more than once in the whole piece.
Don't know if GeeRob will replace him or what is happening. He was a nice enough bloke but his rugby depth was wafer thin and I didn't learn much from watching even after Grumbles was pitch-forked out.
After seeing GeeRob on Rugby HQ, I suspect my rugby knowledge is greater than hers, and that is not saying much.
She is just a tabloid journo, and should stick to the human interest/mud-slinging-with-immunity stuff.
Having said that, she is still better than Grumbles.
doesn't she look uncomfortable using the player's nicknames
Hidden behind the paywall. Can anyone copy and paste the article?
My issues with GP are:
1. He routinely makes basic errors of fact, such as berating the then-ARU for setting up the Force before giving the Rebels time to establish themselves. He's far from the only Hurld writer who does it, which tells you all you need to know about the quality & perhaps quantity of the sub-editing staff, but in the age of Google it's unforgivable.2. His propensity to wildly extrapolate on actual facts, even when he contradicts himself in the same article. His piece on ticket sales for Yokohama is a classic example: sluggish sales potentially resulting in a crowd of ~40K in a 72K-seat stadium is portrayed as a big problem for NZR when in his own words JRFU are underwriting the match therefore it doesn't matter if the place is full or empty, NZR's exposure is nil.3. His tendency to wait for other commentators to have their say then come out a day or two later & put forward a similar point of view as if he's the first to have thought of it.I'll forgive him his Auck-love 'cos every one else is just as bad in that regard.