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I've heard they might be playing in South Africa

Fixtures are out. That's a lot of travel for some of those NH teams

In a ruck - You can't be bound to the ruck and handle the ball. You can detach and pick it up, as long as you are behind the last feet when you do (onside). Hands on is not bound, and you can pick it up if onside. In a tackle - you can pick up the ball as long as you come from an onside...

Worth noting that for all their careers Skelton and Kerevi could have been picked under the Giteau laws, but our coaches chose not to select them

Have heard the foot behind the ball thing before, but not really sure where that comes from in the laws? Nige does talk about it in the clip All I can see is the offside line (which is back foot)

That he didn't do this probably says more about Tane Edmend than JOC (James O'Connor).

Headline should have been "JOC (James O'Connor) dropped after not following his coach's game plan"

The big problem - under the CBA, Australia A player payments and tour allowances are the same as the full Australia test squad - so it costst a fair bit to put the Australia A team out there. And basically no revenue tied to it

I reckon it's a bit oof a dual problem. We flog the hell out of our test players (Lions x 3, SA away, England, Ireland, France, NZ all away just this year), but then don't have enough good rugby for the players at the level below that. Our test players then can't wait to sign overseas for the...

It can always be worse than it is.

We are probably about to test what the player group achieves without a world class coach in charge.

I think we have to start accepting that if we keep employing world class coaches, and we do, and they keep ending up with a 40% win rate, then it's not the coaches. Point B is they may in fact be overachieving with our player pool

The rumour I heard was he'd just had enough of dealing with Thorn

I don't think Nige actually saw what he was describing here, for the first one. The issue isn't that he wasn't bound, the issue is he's offside (in front of the last feet) when he picks the ball up

What do we think about the Japanese penalty from 3:10 in the latest Whistle Watch