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Indeed. I can already see he's going to completely destroy the spectacle with his whistle.

Yeah, I imagine that's what will happen... I was just wondering if there was any way they could get him and Folau both in the game without compromising our defence. If Beale were a master of the high ball there'd be a better case for it, but I accept it'd be an unnecessary gamble.

Haha I'll take that as a no then.

That's just fucking great... Peyper will strangle the game to death and penalise everything.

Does anyone else think there may be a case for putting Beale at FB and moving Folau to the wing? Although as a Tahs fan I'm loath to see him moved from FB, he was pretty effective for the Wallabies on the Wing, and he's more suited to the position than either McCabe or Horne (who are...

That's interesting. What's the go with the Tahs website having none, but being available on eBay?

I reckon Ayoub has been awful all season, but all you're saying is that the two balanced eachother out. I think that's probably right and I'm just glad that we got a dubious call our way to partially offset the earlier one to the Crusaders.

There's separation between his hands and the ball as he hits the ground. Seen those called knock-ons before... Anyway, it doesn't matter now. Ayoub is an awful ref and this just confirmed how poor his eyesight and judgement are. Thankfully the Tahs still won in spite of his dodgy call

Well we're both speculating, but I reckon when you have two elements of a potential try that are 50-50 and call it into question, you have to assume that at least one of them disallowed it. I certainly think it was a significantly more controversial call to the McCaw penalty in any case.

There are two pieces of controversy for the Nadolo try - his foot goes into touch AND he looks like he loses it as he's grounding it. So I reckon it's less than a 50-50 and 9 times out of 10 wouldn't have been awarded.

You'd think these headline writers could at least try a little balance... Kaplan ALSO says that the Nadolo try shouldn't have been awarded later in his analysis, so it's a bit silly them coming up with headlines that make it sounds like the Crusaders were robbed.

Wonderful news! They have done their best to piss people off over the last year, so it's good that their bottom line is suffering a bit. Heck, my old man cancelled his foxtel subscription on the back of their North Korea rivaling bias last year and I hear he wasn't the only one, so I've been...

That's quite interesting... I didn't know so few people turned out for the Origin win. Although to be fair, the CBD is a rugby zone and Martin Place in particular wouldn't be short of Rugby fans. I could see the confetti from my office. I suspect if the Origin crew celebrated at Parramatta the...

Beale would be more wasted on the wing than AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) is... his value is as a distributor as much as anything.

Be interesting to see the line-up link goes with. I reckon Charles at hooker will be a pleasant surprise to be honest - will help our line-outs considerably and I think he's probably a little undersold as a scrummager. However, I do think that at lock we may be a bit underdone - Carter is a...

There's quite literally not a single thing I like about the EPL, from it's structure, predictability, prima donnas, Oligarch cash right down to the sport it represents. Having a finals series adds an element of pressure that makes the Champions more worthy than a ladder system and gives the...

Kafer is more just a pot shot merchant. At the function I was at on Friday he kept on with comments like "I hear you need to be simple when talking to League players" in response to Daley saying the key to the Blues success this year was due to giving the players more responsibility and keeping...

Yeah, I was at a thing on Friday with Laurie Daley, Rod Kafer and George Gregan, and Daley was really positive in his talk about Union. None of the small minded crap you often hear from both sides (Kafer usually can't help himself either - always taking pot shots at League). League fans who...

Oh well, whatever. Moving on - still loving that the Tahs broke the drought finally. Just the most unbelievable and heart-stopping match. If the 'Tahs can do this again next year I reckon we'll get 80k in that stadium. Even my League mates were kicking themselves for not coming after the game...

Wasn't looking for evidence of anything, but that pre game photo thing was dickish of him for both demanding the home team accommodate him and then refusing to wait when Hooper couldn't get there on time. The post match thing just sealed it for me on his petulance.