Recent content by Riviera274

U Union is doomed in Australia! Good athletes leaving school will choose AFL, or NRL or a European club academy side over playing for Manly or somewhere in Queensland. You end up with the situation in Fiji and Samoa...all the good athletes have gone and only the dregs are left to play club...

The writing is on the wall for the Wallabies unless world rugby rules are changed. After 2015 RWC there were almost 21/2 wallaby teams playing in Europe or Japan froma playing base in Australia smaller than Ireland and not much larger than Wales. Effectively this makes it almost impossible to...

It's not the players who are the problem ....it's their docker mates from the Union Corse

No problem....can I bring the boys from Marseilles and Toulouse......knives, chains or chain guns?

Probably the most popular Australian ever in Ireland. Every publican in the land from Connacht to Munster to Leinster wanted to talk to you about Big Jim Williams

You're right. Lark ham did remind me of the King,

I bow to your argument.......trouble is I've never seen James make a line break .....mind you Wilkinson didn't make many either....so are they just kicking machines of the highest quality. Trouble is when you've played against Barry John all other fly halves pale into insignificance.

Thanks for that. Sat next to 'Weary Dunlop ' on a flight once. Very interesting character indeed.

J Just asking? Never seen a rugby match in Melbourne....saw Bob Cowper at school so perhaps he's the only other Vic rugby player of note

Is he the best player to come out of Victuoria....or just the only one?

Great knockout tackler and yellow/red card collector....possibly the best in Europe

I'm not much of a Troll.....but when you live in Europe you constantly get this background noise...We're superior...what do Antipodeans know?....We invented everything...etc.etc...but never any factual basis for English or European superiority. After all - based on the last 100 years - they're...

Pretty much every week....except he when I wander down to watch Irish or Exeter

This sounds like an argument for localism. From your statement you could extrapolate that Federer never won the U.S. Or Australian open, that England couldn't win the RWC in 2003; that Australia had no hope at any world events. It ain't necessarily so that travel dominates sporting results.

A Agree about the sponsor. Can you advise when a Super winner ever played an HC winner....it's never happened so the argument has no facts.