Recent content by Strewthcobber

Think that under plays it a bit. Skelton was staring in a test match for Australia at age 22 Obviously he still had things to work on but he was a lot further along than where Miles is now.

I jokingly said after the Crusaders game and then Chiefs team was announced that HMP is clearly the sacrificial lamb for the harder away games. Now he starts in Fiji. Starting to look like not much of a joke

Two different things going on. Jiff eligibility benefits his club - they have to have a certain number in their 23, so the club wants that (3 years in the academy gets that tick) Then there's French eligibility, which would be the same for everyone else. 5 years after he is first registered...

Joe Brial played for the Canterbury sides for a bit after school, not Toby, although both grew up in Queenstown before moving to Sydney. As Joe shows, too early to say yet if the Tracey boys have slipped out of the Aus rugby systems. Plenty of time yet to come back

Not harder to represent Japan. The proposal is 8 players on the field in JRLO must have Japanese blood (and it won't apply to players with 30+ caps). Doesn't impact eligibility for the national team - and you'd imagine Suntory will prioritise their 206cm Cat-A player

Eddie will select Hockings to play for Japan against Wales on 5 July.

Contract status as far as I can tell............ 2025 - Daugunu, Flook 2026 - Pakeho, Paisami ??? - Goldsborough (presumably on some kind of deal - academy?), Henry

"Sounds interesting.....how much does it pay?"

Don't we just outsource this to private schools?

Remember the hugely successful "Not going to France for the croissants" Eddie Jones ads (but I agree - need to promote, the trick is promotion is worth nothing without performance)

Same as FTA isn't it? A loss leader to drive people to pay for Stan. I agree the conversion rate for that will be pretty tiny! The difference is you might get the odd person under 40 watching on YouTube.

Wales made $215m aud in revenue. Their urc salary cap is just about twice our Super Rugby cap. It's the six nations rivers of gold

Social Blade (?) has the Super Rugby Pacific YouTube channel with 769k views last week, and 3.07m views over the last 28 days. No idea how legit any of that is, but feels like this is where the game should be looking.

31,437 for the recent double header. Not sure "bad" is how I would describe a crowd that big!

I'd pick him in the squad, but I don't think Schmidt will. Speaking of JOC (James O'Connor) at #10, couple of quiz questions..... How many test matches has JOC (James O'Connor) started as #10 and Australia won? And, when was the last time this happened?