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The NRC organisers are yet to pick up on the fact that the best thing about provincial comps is not so much who wins the grand final - but rather who holds the shield. So I thought I'd start the thread so we can keep track of who currently holds the shield and what games are classified as...

Each option has been discussed at length on this forum, yet no real consensus is ever reached. I thought I would include a somewhat detailed poll. Vote away and Discuss.

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I think second row is easily the weakest area of the wallaby team at the moment. Simmons and Douglas are holding their spots almost by default. Horwill is a good player but is under a constant injury cloud. Timani is trying to get out of Australia as soon as possible. Fardy and MMM are seen...

I think the question on everyones mind is what team is wearing the alternate strip?

It gets released on Sunday. Here is what I would pick assuming Folau is sticking around, Beale not in contention. Props (4): Robinson, Slipper, Palmer, Sio Hookers (2): Moore, TPN Locks (4): Horwill, Douglas, Pyle, Timani/Neville/Simmons Opensides (2): Smith, Gill 6/8 (4): Mowen, Palu, MMM...

Reds, Force and Brumbies have all side stepped the ARU and established their own academies. The Tahs and Rebels have a raft of invitational players training with them in the pre season. What is the point of bank rolling an academy if the super rugby sides have made it pretty clear they want...

Important to note that Cooper is not the only player still in negotiations over next years contract.

As the club season starts to wind down I reckon it's time we pick a team of unsigned talent. Only rule is players in the team can't be signed to a super rugby team for next year. Since the EPS haven't been finalised yet we'll include players even if they already have EPS spots. Some...

Along with the centres this is easily one of the weaker parts of the wallaby team. The current pecking order seems to look something like this: 6. Higgers, Dennis, Schatz 7. Pocock, Hooper, Gill 8. Palu, Samo, McCalman?, Mowen And then you have Auela, Jones, Brown, Vaea, Kimlin, AWH...

With burgess gone and white injured we have non existent depth at scrum half. Phipps is the current backup but he was pretty poor during the super rugby this season and there are questions marks about whether he is even the best halfback at the rebels, let alone a wallaby regular. At the...

I've been doing a lot of I told you so lately to people regretting their decision to vote LNP at the last election. The result is in the past and has been talked about enough I feel. A lot of the decisions his government has made re: the public service do not surprise me at all. I think...

The obvious one for me is the scrum - I'd like to the packs bind first and then push. Also each prop must approve his opposition props jersey before the game. I'd also get rid of short line outs (i.e. whole pack has to partake) to allow the backs more space for first phase plays. At the base...

The rugby program as a whole has proven itself to be inadequate. Very rarely at provincial or international level does the program produce teams that are 'more than the sum of their individual parts'. As I said in the other thread, the attitude, nous and execution of 10 years ago have now...

The thing that has stood out the most to me this season has been that the Australian teams are simply being overpowered in the collisions. It makes it hard to defend when every time the opposition players run at the line they are able to stay on their feet for that extra metre or two before...

In writing this I have started to question what motivates players and what the Australian jersey really means. Some would say this game is meaningless, that it is a waste of time and you know at times I would probably agree. But the more I think about it the more I think this game is one of the...

After tonight's game I think it's about time we had a place to vent about Ali Williams so as not to ruin game threads. I'll get the ball rolling by pointing out that the dickhead was almost 5m past the 10m line during the haka tonight, he did the same thing earlier in the tri-nations as well...

With the super rugby starting to die down, international season is quick approaching. Deans and co. only have a few more weeks to make up their minds about the squad for this years shortened tri nations series. The competition provides a litmus test before the world cup to check if certain...

Interesting news this week that from 2012, GPS rugby will be played over the course of term 3. Although not confirmed yet there is talk the AIC and TAS may well follow suit. This presents a great opportunity for growth of the code in qld schools. With term 2 now free there is the potential to...

Should be a good contest.