Recent content by The Mayor of Perth

At the risk of flogging a dead horse - what do you do when the captain wears no 7 and he's not the best captain nor the best 7? If you're Brad Thorn you show quite some resolve and put him on the bench. That won the title for the Reds IMHO. It would appear that Dave Rennie is not quite up to the...

Brumbies berried twice in a month.

If Folau gets injured, who plays fullback? Only Beale can. And then who goes to 12? Hodge can, and Kerevi if necessary but he's not a 12. So much juggling if Folua gets injured. Poor balance on the bench with Kerevi and Speight –far, far better to have Hunt on the bench instead of Kerevi.

I've been going to Melbourne often for years. Pre-2006 when I'd reply to business colleagues/clients that I was going home via Canberra to watch a Brumbies game, they didn't have a clue what I was talking about. Nothing much has changed except they now think the Storm play rugby. I was in...

Good work from Munster and a good move for Dave Wessels - I wish hime well. Here's hoping Force players can somehow extricate themselves from Rebels 'fallback contracts' and move to other franchises.

More about Mr Clyne... RUGBYWA STATEMENT Having now watched the ARU Chairman address the media today it is important that RugbyWA strongly contest the content of this interview. Mr Clyne mentions that on August 2nd the ARU invited RugbyWA to make final offer to the ARU and said that RWA did...

Lobes' latest spin (not that fault lies with him) below. So the ARU cuts the team that has had by far the least amount of unbudgeted support funding. "As communicated at the beginning of this process, ARU has invested almost $28 million of unbudgeted, additional “support funding” to Super...

Nothing wrong with Dave Wessels.

It has been crystal clear for years that the Brumbies could not be sustained at the high level I (we?) need them to be at in Canberra. Follow the AFL models, especially Hawthorn, and have the Southern Brumbies, representing ACT, VIC and TAS, play about three games in Melbourne.

The Brumbies have no plan for playing against 14 or 13 since Larkham took over. And Tim Horan - what a great player. There have been many great players in many sports who have made terrible commentators - Timmy might be the prime example.

if ever a game highlighted that we need 4 teams and not 5, this was it. Absolute rubbish. And who thinks Larkham can coach? He has presided over the worst rugby played in the 21 years that the Brumbies have been playing. And the 10 from NZ that no teams in NZ wanted - there's a reason for that...

Higginbotham just not up to Test rugby.

Although the Brumbies did run with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd 5 for a while.

Couldn't agree more. Wykes had a fabulous year for the Force and should have been rewarded with a place in the extended squad. It would have been good for his development as he may well be required in the not-so-distant future when Sharpe and Vickerman are gone. The squad could have been 41 to...

Yep, and if they get over the Blues Kaplan awaits!