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Bridging is normally called against the attacking team looking to seal of the ball. Defenders often get pinged for diving over the top but I am not sure I have seen defending players called for bridging all that often. Its pretty hard to see but Sean O'Brien appeared to win two penalties for...

I noticed something in this match that I had not seen before but it seemed to be employed a couple of times and so may have been a new tactic. The first man to the tackle who was entitled to contest the ball on the ground was leaning over the tackled player and instead of contesting the ball...

Been seeing a lot of this tactic in the Northern Hemisphere in the past season........watch a tape of a Leinster game and see how often Leo Cullen does it - if it wasn't so dangerous and obviously illegal it would be funny.

The thing I liked most about this win was the way they turned around the welsh ascendancy in the last 15 minutes or so. Too often the wallabies suffer the waratah syndrome of being run down and not being capable of fghting their way back into it when the momentum has swung against them...

Brumbies runners seem coming from much better depth - might explain a few things

Refs often make mistakes and it is easy for those of us with the benefit of slow motion replays to be over-critical. It is also all too easy to point at refereeing interpretations that bear no resemblance to the rule book (when was the last time you saw a "flying wedge" penalised (a "pod" for...

There are a lot of good reasons to have locks as lifters rather than jumpers. As jumpers - locks do not always have the best vertical jump and are usually big and take a lot of effort to lift. No disrespect to the locks out there - but they don't always have the best hands either. A big man...

Thanks Bruce - I'm sure I will have no difficulty in revising expectations downwards soon enough.

I was intrigued by this exercise and so started doing a bit of research. I have found references to 21 Wallabies having attended Scots, including 3 Wallaby captains – although as with all internet research the usual caveats apply. For example, one of the 21 is a Stuart Scotts, but I cannot...