Recent content by KOB1987

I'm confused as to whether the conversation had moved onto Reece Hodge or not by the time HD posted

I'm pretty sure Joe is a non-smoker but will try to find out.

Joe will keep picking Ikitau at 12 and Sua'ali'i at 13 because that's the centre pairing he has decided he wants to develop, and I'd say Kiss will too. It's only an injury or suspension that will break that up. I also don't buy the argument that they are playing out of position - they are...

In all seriousness it was all a bit weird how he was thrown into the outer for a while. He does like to party a bit so I wonder if they were dealing with some issues behind the scenes they didn't want to make public, but that's just me hypothesising. It could also be part of the reason for the...

As BH says, plus from memory Edmed was injured v the Chiefs and that victory gave Creighton (rightly or wrongly) a bit of a leg up into the 10 jersey for a few rounds. No one is sure why Bowen started v the Lions. Aside from all that, even if he was #3 at the Tahs, that's pretty much #1 at all...

There’s that, but if they can go back several phases looking for an innocuous knock on and then overturn a try because of it after the conversion has been taken, if they don’t pick something like this up until a few minutes later why can’t they take disciplinary action then? I get that...

I think that was just Buzz looking for something to write while he was having his brekkie beers. I know a lot of his school cohort, think he's pretty happy in Sydney.

I'm guessing that will be Lukhan. Squad announced today.

I agree, which is why I made assumptions based on the other things that were reported in the media. And I know what a surplus normally is but I figured perhaps a sports journalist may not. Anyway, it's obviously a good result but it's all a bit confusing so I'm happy to wait for the annual...

I think you might be right with regards to the gate takings - so maybe it's more like $135m less $20m or something

I could be wrong about it but I'm just piecing together the media reports, considering they are written by journalists and not accountants - if the expectation for RA's share was $100m, and a $250m gross exceeded expectations, RA get around half that, debt is currently $64m, and they're talking...

My read on it is that they are going to gross around $115m from the tour

It’s more a post for the ‘Wallabies beyond 2025’ thread but that doesn’t exist so here will do. An interesting stat I picked up is that in the World Cup immediately following the Lions tour the Wallabies have made the final - 89/91, 01/03 and 13/15. NZ also share the same dynamic - 93/95...

I notice the Aus hasn’t given the article any air time, Buzz’s narrative probably doesn’t blend in too well with the other articles they are running today about the Lions tour generating $250m and RA ditching the Giteau Law.

If they stick to the 'guidelines' that appear to have been implemented in its place I think it will work well. It won't be open slather, and there is still the incentive to stay in Australia (especially for developing players) as the preference will be given to those players. Of course there...