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Good pickup Scarfie. I gave it a go on the weekend and it worked well so I've forked out for a 6 month subscription. It's not Foxtel quality and if you're out you can't record/watch a replay later but on the other hand the 6 months will cost me what a fortnight of Foxtel would and I can always...

I'm well aware that TPN and Palu are were born in Syd, same as I know that Umaga and Mealamu were born in NZ. My point was that shitstirrers like Jones regularly pontificate about Aus/NZ 'stealing' the best talent from the Pacific and their 'evidence' (for want of a better word) is guys like...

Can just image the turnaround from the NH rugby writes like Stephen Jones et al - one minute they're denouncing Australia and New Zealand for raping the Pacific and preventing the Umaga's, Mealamu's, Polota-Nau's and Palu's from playing for their countries of 'birth', the next they'd be whining...

What about Gits, he stopped plenty of our momentum? Oh wait, you mean stop the oppositions momentum.:frans As you were then

It is indeed. For the bookie.

And then after the intro HG would go into a 5 minute rant covering everything that had happened during the week, seemingly without taking a breath. Champagne comedy! (to mix my Australian comic geniuses)

We could almost get 1 full time equivalent player by combining MMM and Vickerman! Just what we Oz rugby needs, 1 player for the price of two!

All of that is fine if you assume that on his return Vickerman is the same player he was when he left. The problem is that when he does return it'll be ~3 years since he's played a competitive (in terms of fulltime professional) game of rugby and a lot can change in that time. It may be that 3...

Fixed for you. I reckon Vickerman will take over Barnes' sookface mantle at the tahs, given that's my abiding memory of him the last couple of years he was here - sitting on the ground, holding his shoulder, face screwed up in pain. Sure he'd (eventually) get up and get back into it but I...

Stadiums wont' be a problem will they? Surely SARU don't own/run all the stadia in SA so the IPL wannabes be able to tick that box. How many officials are full time employees of SARU/IRB, surely not many (if any) and if the majority are part timers with real jobs, then i bet the chance of a...

He seemed to get more involved as the game went on and didn't seem to be avoiding contact, but showed his true colours early on with that kick when he was put into acres of space and a couple of dropped balls that 99% of players would have caught with their eyes closed.

They've also only had all their stars back for a couple of weeks haven't they?

Exactly, i saw this thread and thought we might be (finally) getting the prop/scrum school we need, but oh no it's the continuation of Australian prop selection process - put the biggest kid in the front row and hope it works.

There are more than enough things in his agenda driven gossip columns that he deserves abuse for, but I'm not sure this is one of them - I'm not sure how much (if any) control he has over a) the pictures that appear with his 'stories' or b) the captioning of those pics.

So no change from before he left then?

Hmmm, pretty silly comment. He often seemed to try and avoid contact when playing on the wing, last year as Lee mentioned there was a lot of chipping over the top and a ~120kg professional winger choosing to kick rather than run over amateurs weighing 20-30kg less does not a powerhouse no 8...

Yeah but D'Arcy doesn't look like a superstar when he's running over 80kg amateur halfbacks like Nadolo does (occasionally). ::)

Jesus this thread is a whole lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth over an article that doesn't even have a single quote from Palmer or his management. Hell it doesn't even have any of the usual 'according to a Waratahs/Brumbies insider' bullshit that Australian rugby 'journalists' love to use...

"Receive some form of exposure" doesn't provide much hope I reckon - no chance of a live game, maybe a delayed game a week one One, but most likely something like a half hour S14 wrap up each week similar to what used to be on Channel 7 a few years ago.