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Are you a sub editor for a newspaper Epi? Just wondering because the subject you've chosen has nothing to do with the actual article - nowhere there anything to say that Stuart thinks Quade is the best playmaker in either code. It's almost as farcical as this:

Absolutely agree, however deserve has nothing to do with it. Same as Elsom - if he can walk he'll be in the squad even if he doesn't play any rugby between now and the WC.

Vickerman won't need to kill it in club rugby to make the RWC - if he can walk onto the pitch he'll make it regardless of form, the ARU didn't pay big dollars to bring him back to have him win another Shute Shield title with Uni.

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Wouldn't that be 2015 champions, four year plan and all? ::)

What the? TOCC must've done a sneaky post edit - I'm sure there was a line about 'Reds supporters getting sick of the shit the team cops on this forum' when I posted.

Aww didumms, did the nasty internet people say mean things about your sporting team?

Personally I don't have an issue with the level of coverage Super Rugby gets on Offsiders. The show's produced in Melbourne so there's always going to be a bias towards AFL, but the most important factor is that Rugby's a niche sport (whichever way you look at it - participation, crowds, tv...

The ARU didn't resign him to play for Uni, so if he's fit he'll be in the squad, regardless of merit. Agree with the first part, but not the second. Assuming he's fit Shepherd's a better backup than Gerrard - he's got a comparable boot on him and while he hasn't got jetboots, he'n nowhere...

Hmm, a Jabba the Hutt article. Let me guess, it has one small quote and then plenty of unsubstantiated paraphrasing of 'unnamed high ranking officials'?

And one of those games was a 20 minute cameo against a completely crap opposition! I'm not a huge fan of TC (he does most of the basics well, but is s fairly limited player in terms of skill) but the calls for Harris to be considered for a Wallabies jersey are ridiculous, especially seeing...

Haha, epic ragequite there HS!

Assuming he's fit, make Pocock the captain. Last year it often appeared he was the captain - querying decisions with the ref, pulling the team in and giving them a talking to after we'd conceded a try etc - so I reckon make it official.

Not sure why you'd say that 'once again' they're our best hope. Sure they might have had a good start to this season and last year was average instead of abject failure, but other than that about the only thing they've been our best hope for in the past decade or so is the wooden spoon

Welcome to 3 years ago! If I see Jabba the Hut's name at the top of the page on a smh.com.au story the back button is pressed straight away. If I wanted to read trashy gossip from unnamed sources I'd grab the missus' magazines. What I don't get is the praise he gets from Spiro - who can actually...

It's not too much of a conundrum, the Ponies forwards are for the most part loose powderpuffs who seem to believe they've got double digit numbers on the back of their shirts. Alexander, Elsom, Chisolm, Chapman and the mack daddy of the lot Hoiles. So Vaea is done once Hoiles returns - can't...

Simple answer is it's not going to improve him in the long term, but given that his defensive issues are basically ticker-related (he's not a small guy for a 5/8 and has had quite a few years in a pro program and has not improved) I don't think there's much that can be done other than hide him...

This was exactly the reason Bryce said he had to go - he said something along the lines of "he's gone down 5 times in a row, he has to go off".

Only caught the last 15 minutes or so, but was impressed with how both teams were still throwing themselves into it all the way to the end, still seemed to be pretty physical even at that late stage. Terrible call for the penalty, but fair enough given the forward pass for Speight's try. Good to...

I don't know that cricket is the "marquee sport in 9's stable". Sure they show domestic tests but that's probably just because they've paid for them till 2013 so they may as well use them rather than buying daytime TV filler that they'd otherwise be forking out for. Summer is non ratings period...