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Well, no home ground advantage obviously

Not saying they would actually be attacked but it is certainly an intimidating atmosphere. Should have clarified a referee *might* feel threatened even if there was not necessarily a real threat. Apologies

Was the game at Headen? I think the crowd can be a bit overwhelming sometimes especially with having to walk back to the car park right behind the home sideline. Can't blame a ref wanting to get home vehicle and health intact to be honest.

Division 2 Club Championship Club Points UNSW 1205 Petersham 1114 Forest 655 Sydney Irish 646 Briars 643 St Patrick's 633 Very close at the top and bottom of Div 2 CC - if it stays like this, is there any argument to be made about potential pro-reg? Could we see 2 Div 1 teams...

Knox (from https://rugbyresults.fusesport.com/summaryladder.asp?seasonid=989)

It's certainly not good reading early on for Drummoyne - last in 1sts, 3rds and 4ths, not in 5ths at all, 2nds are 6th and their best placing ATM is 5th in Colts. They still have a chance of turning things around but will need to get their skates on quickly. It will be hard to argue, based on...

I partially agree with the sentiment that we were, at least in parts, better than them in some of the games - finishing and points scoring were our issues, as well as stamina. We had a lot of players covering multiple grades due to various unavailabilities - on a better day, we might have...

Law 9.12 (Dangerous play): A player must not physically or verbally abuse anyone. Physical abuse includes, but is not limited to, biting, punching, contact with the eye or eye area, striking with any part of the arm, shoulder, head or knee(s), stamping, trampling, tripping or kicking. Sanction...

Pro-reg will not work on a regular basis given Subbies is strictly amateur, unlike SRU (but you already knew this, I suspect). Looking through Rugby News archives, I do wonder how different the landscape would be if there was, at least, a second tier SRU competition. I'm sure a club like...

31-0 winners over UNSW in 5ths (Halligan game) too so a clean sweep at 2 different away venues

It's all a bit of a beat up - the shorts are more than enough normally, especially with UNSW having sleeve and torso designs on their jerseys now. I more got my teamlists mixed up with the colour coding!

The advantage rugby has over league in the concussion issue is the lack of constant head-on collisions off a run-up. That is the big issue that league will have to contend with and it's hard to see how they'll fix that with a 10m offside line.

Exhibit A your honour

I'm talking from a fairness and financial perspective - it's a bit of a crap shoot to who has 8 home games and who has 7 (if my math is right). Now, it could be 8 and 6, or worse. There's no reason any team should host an extra home game when it's possible to balance it.

There's actually something unique about this weekend in the 6 team comps - this is the first week of the second cycle, so the 2nd leg of meetings. If these are just washed out as normal, teams will play both games at home this season. Hopefully, common sense prevails and Subbies move the 3rd...