Recent content by Jagman

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I'll eat my hat if Sua'ali'i is not playing for the Waratahs next year. (figuratively of course)

More than seven years is a long time to wait to see something start to bear fruit. almost twice as long as the average super rugby career. Reds were a better outfit pre-2014.

Haven't seen the game but best to remember that no team wants to telegraph their game play much at this stage. In 2015 NZ were in an uproar for how poorly the Allblacks played against Argentina (even though they still won) but the ABs ended up winning the whole thing regardless. I'm convinced...

the mathematics of it must require a single additional tran tasman clash. Tahs lucked out

I thought the additional rivalries were not supposed to be trans tasman. In any case the Tahs certainly have it against them. At least they don't have to face teh Rebels twice haha

Can someone please explain how the Waratahs end up playing the Crusaders twice. 6 games against NZ sides when all the other Aus sides only play 5. Crusaders even more likely winners with this draw unless the Waratahs can snatch a miracle.

Its pretty impressive though to play 2 tests, one off the bench from memory, and finish 6th on this poll.

It could be classified as a Test if the team is test strength. Its a combination of nations just like the Lions.

I dont disagree but it's weird to have all the captains in positions that generally dont play the last 1/4.

Apparently White and AAA are the vice captains to Slipper. If all of them start you'd expect all of them to be absent for most of the last quarter of the game. I wonder if this means AAA won't be starting.

before the NRC existed the continuing online argument as far as I could tell was that Australia needed a 3rd Tier national comp to develop players or they would never reliably compete with NZ and SA who have one. I bought into this and believed it would eventually make a difference to Aus Super Rugby...

But were they better with the NRC against NZ and SA sides who have always had an equivalent comp. There's always going to be a best Aus side. But even the Brumbies were terrible against NZ with the exception of 2019. The other problem is that it is only this year since 2016 that Aus sides have...

I'm not against the NRC but is there any evidence that the comp did anything for the quality of rugby at the levels above in its 6 seasons? Its hard to think that the Aus Super teams could have been even worse between 2016 and 2020.

I know his father is a Union man, former shute shield player and longsuffering waratahs member, and a great bloke too.