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Because it's very difficult to sell jerseys, shirts, caps, other merchandise in a colour the public doesn't want to buy. No AFL teams have green, no Major League Baseball teams, no big soccer clubs...

That's what's happening in Perth RH. A major reason given for moving Force games from Subi to Perth Oval was to arrest the decline in crowd numbers from average 28500 in 2006 to 17900 in 2009. The expectation was for crowds in the order of 18500 to 20500 in a stadium of almost 21000 capacity...

Sorry to state the bleedin' obvious but it is of the utmost importance to Australian rugby that the game is run well in NSW, as the state has to not only trot out the Tahs but stock the majority of the Brumbies, Force and Rebels. So I've read the last 20 or so posts and it seems to me that the...

Force same team as for Tahs except Sidey in for Inman at 13 and Hodgo/Poey/Mac 6/7/8 - a week off for Brownie.

Nope, Crossy played 13 'til week 8 against the Stormers.

I was confident he was going to stay until the Tahs match, that game plan may just have turned him.

Whereas More Food hasn't!

You're out of luck Slim, that's the team.

Spot on all round although I think you're a bit kind to Nathan Pearce. The best part of that was seeing some bloody good rugby from some of the young Lions. Get to see the Brums live next week - you beauty, get to see my teams 1 and 2 battle for the wooden spoon.

I'll be going with Whiteley and Saffy. Injuries to Dagg, Harris, Thomson and Murray; benching of Chisholm, Whiteley and Saffy; bye for Lambie, Beale, Sharpe, Sykes and Kepu = 1 ugly week!

That'd be the last two games wouldn't it? Since I put him in my fantasy team!

1. There has already been a fair bit of shuffling better refs to 'better games' or inexperienced refs to 'lesser games'. 2. Peyper has only just been elevated to the higher panel. 3. Joubert is a good ref.

Not a sexy topic but Hawko made some good points in Tahs v Rebels thread. Seems very odd to me that Jaco Peyper gets the Stormers v Sharks game while Craig Joubert is doing Bulls v Chiefs on the same day. And the following week in RSA, Sharks play Brumbies and Stormers v Crusaders but Joubert is...

Below strength Crusaders and the best balanced Force team this year, assuming Smith slots straight back onto the wing and Dellit stays at 13.

Yes. In 6 years of dealing with yarpie teams in Perth never has the white flag been put up so early. The body language of the Bulls was, "I wanna go home" all week, including naming the team 3 days earlier than would normally occur. And now the Bulls are 17 for 17 in losing their last game on...

It would take much longer to get a team list out of them at the start of a tour. They really do want to go home!

It doesn't matter what the Force accomplish this week, Brumbies will go to third with 4 points for the bye [with the Blues to stitch up Rebels in North Harbour].

The Bulls are a team on the wane, tired, who just want to go home. And, as pointed out in the Oz this morning, in 16 years they have NEVER won their last tour match. In your court Force. Still another week for Poey and Hodgo, Smith won't play (Shep straight in there), Inman longer. The late...

2 years. And as a 'foreign development player' he has staked his lot with the ARU.

I prefer to see it as that all-important battle for 3rd place in the Oz conference.