Recent content by Giulia

Soft kids. Mums to blame. Guy sounds 80.

Have the semi-final dates been announced?

Stadium seats look well back from the field. Paying to watch the Hurricanes in person would get old fast.

It was too late for the Sydney Morning Herald to print it (yet apparently not too late for The Australian) is an odd thing to mention given people reading news on paper is very much on the way out and the author himself notes it was scheduled with people watching it in mind.

Sounds like some teams are resting players. That hypes nobody.

Hot take: Future draws should be set up to avoid where possible having two Six Nations or Rugby Championship teams in the same pool

There'd be a lot of empty seats at Optus Stadium for Australia vs Hong Kong China or Chile

vs South Africa, home venue TBC — 27 September is 1 day after the AFL Grand Final you can probably rule out Rugby Australia fixturing it in Melbourne https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-26/wallabies-test-match-fixtures-for-2026-released-all-blacks-japan/106056526

Are European Rugby Champions Cup, Top 14 and United Rugby Championship likely to move to Stan?

Super Round I think it's happening because groups in Christchurch are fronting the money not because Super Rugby/SANZAAR particularly cares to celebrate a new stadium.

When I subscribe I immediately unsubscribe so I don't have to remember to cancel before the month ends. Watch Station Eleven next time you have Stan it's a great miniseries.

Country-wide change to get everyone buying a new jersey?

NRL PNG club will fold or be rebranded and move to AUS-NZ the moment governments stop fronting the money. No fucking way it ever makes a profit.

If I were a New Zealand tourist I'd be inclined to go some place new the 3rd weekend and watch on TV not visit Johannesburg a 2nd time

In the 2010s there were good episodes when everyone on the panel would work in AFL & NRL newspapers and have something to say about what's happening off field. Now it's 35-40 year old ex-players of various sports wanting a media career who are never going to say anything too critical.