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Can we get a half decent analysis of Tupou's scrumming? How its refereed will have a massive influence tomorrow night. There's been a number of times when I've looked at it and thought its the most blatant boring in since that Italy game in 2012 with Castrogiovanni (remember that!). Other times...

Relaaaax the post was clearly in jest, the bookies obviously have the reds as favourites, will be a very close game though

Given the Brumbies have been nigh on unbeatable for a generation, people shouldn't even blink when they retain their easily won crown this weekend against a young Reds team that doesn't have the experience to compete with the champion, dynasty creating Brumbies team

Given Vunivalu and Paisami are injured, what other team would people have selected? The obvious move is You could put Daugunu on the wing, switch Campbell to fullback and drop Hegarty to the bench. You then assume you score tries, get ahead of the Brumbies and bring on Hegarty to control the...

Berry in charge means it will be an open game

Clearly thorn seems to think there's going to be a lot of kicking in this game and has put Hegarty there to run the territory operation with Campbell being solid on the wing, and Daugunu to come on when things get looser. I'd be very interested to see if Vunivalu is being left out for injury or...

Are Slipper, Folau F and Samu fit? Think the Brumbies are toast if all 3 or 2 out of these three aren't playing

The killer thing about the Stan/Nine combo is that it's the perfect design for Rugby's structural content. In the past FTA broadcasters would say well one game a week is actually strong enough to make it on TV, but the others are not. Foxtel would then say we'll pay top dollar but we want all...

I'm in the start Vunivalu camp. He's powerful, he's played rugby at a schoolboy level and will cause the Brumbies a lot of problems. So what if he's not the best defender in the comp yet, he's not some raging liability, he was a bona fide star at the Storm and I'm sure he'll kill it on Saturday...

I don't think its madness because they're only selling 15%, the PE suits only get 15 % of the votes and if they try to do anything stupid won't come close to getting it up at a board room level. It's not some fire sale where they come in with a supermajority of the votes and move to shut down...

Hoping CH9 chuck this bad boy on the main channel - surely it will outrate space invaders at least in Brisbane?

McLennan reckons RUgby AU is running better on less staff which is pretty funny

I think we should definitely go for the PE option. We won't be as highly valued as the All Blacks clearly. As for potential growth, I'm sure in the process we will make the point that a winning wallabies bledisloe cup side is highly valuable. They'll then look at the cash flows from that, times...

I also wouldn't be surprised if the Reds name him in the starting lineup only to then declare he is injured on game day

It’s hard to say whether Paisami is or isn’t injured. The media these days doesn’t have that many professional journalists sniffing around rugby so there’s every chance he is injured but the Reds have managed to keep it under wraps to keep their enemies preparing as if he’s playing the game.

Without Paisami the Brumbies should create a linebreak with every single pass that goes beyond flyhalf. Failure to do so should result in the mid-match removal of Dan McKellar as coach

Perhaps a hybrid solution is possible with regards to NRC. I could cop having a 12/14 week NRC at the end of the club season with some of the teams ARU owned/funded like WF, QLD Country, Melbourne rising, NSW country, but also inviting high quality clubs to participate like Easts (bris), Uni...

What should Australian Rugby do once its immediate financial position recovers with its funding priorities? What do people here think is the long term third tier solution? WIth the NRC scrapped and club rugby lumped into stan sport, will club land go back to being the development pathway? IMO...

The trend is your friend. It just got a lot harder for newscorp to publish articles dunking on rugby and calling it dead, as well as their laughably garbage shitsheet "who killed rugby union".