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I was in a Pub in Horsham in the Wimmera district of Victoria last week and was surprised to hear a conversation between three local farmers about the Rugby WC. They had some idea what they were talking about too, and had obviously watched a fair bit of the Wallaby games. I doubt there is a...

I'll take a bite on The Rocks bait. My cousin was a recent captain of South Sydney and a premiership winning player at Easts, which in Rocks view might give me some cred. My nephew was signed up by a league club at 15, two years after entering an agreement along with his parents to accept...

Fifita is a very good footballer, but he is apparently prone to "off field incidents". He would need to go to a coach with a strong disciplinary record.

Is he on for Clyde?

First try was an intercept which eventuated from good defence in the backline which appeared to fluster the Highlanders a bit and so a risky pass was thrown. Tomane showed good speed to clear the defence zone, and from there he was accelerating away with very good top speed. His second try was...

There is also the factor that a lot of "gridiron" players drop out of the game at every stage, ie High School, College, etc who are still outstanding athletes and who may well be looking for an outlet that isnt available at the moment. Rugby could easil;y fill that niche to the advantage of the...

Played league because that was all there was, then some school teachers started a Rugby club in our town so I played both. When I went to Uni I met a very pretty girl who said she liked Rugby so I played Rugby in an attempt to impress her. Did for a while but then she fell for a nerd who played...

I've got nothing much to add to the story, but while I have never spoken to SBW I did eat at a restaurant while he did also. He was subjected to a stream of wellwishers and some f'wits coming up to himfor the duration of his meal and he was very polite to all of them. I don't blame him much for...

3 Barnes 2 Maafu 1 Ione HM Genia, Turner, McCalman

I'm quietly confident that the Brumbies will finish ahead of both the Force and Rebels, then with a bit of luck could slide past one of the other Aussie teams if they have injury problems etc. I think that both Force and Rebels best handfull of players may be better than the Brumbies best but...

There can never be enough questions to cover every eventuality, but as Ruggo said above we who are dedicated enough to be haunting this blog during the off season would be more than happy to answer more questions in order to elaborate on our rugby watching experiences during the year. I am a...

Yeah. If you don't like it, don't read it. Simple. I think a problem with finding league players who might sucessfully transfer to Rugby is the homogenisation of league players, in that they are all big, fast good front on defenders, all good with the ball in the air, etc etc, but few can...

A bit of a left field pick would be Joel Thompson from the Raiders as a 13. He is big, quick and agile, has good defence, can kick and gets a good pass away. Doesn't give away too many penalties which can be a problem for League players.

Kiaps report takes the matter from the slightly amusing to possibly dangerous. Drunks that spend extended periods sexually harassing innocent bystanders are not a good thing.

Saw Tomane earlier in the week and he seemed very fit and enthusiastic. His attitude seems good.

I thought the clip that Querty provided was the worst incident by Burger. An eye gouge that went on and on and in back play. How the assistant missed it I'm buggered if I know. Burger has a problem that he needs to fix, or have the IRB fix it for him.

Several contributors including myself remarked after the TN final game that Carter looked to be unable to run at pace and generally holding himself back. Maybe the pummelling he took against Tonga exacerbated some existing injury. Be a pity if he wasnt able to contribute fully to the WC as he is...

I like the idea of giving Horne at least some time on the wing to run him into some condition for possible greater use later in the comp. Digby couldnt possibly play through a scapoid break, apart from the risk of further serious damage, it is a very painfull injury and detrimental to handling.

I thought Steven Moore would get at least a mentioned in despatches in the MOM, I thought he was superb.

Seen it a hundred times at every level of the game. Reporting this is a symptom of too many journos sitting around waiting for something, anything to happpen in the "phoney war" stages of the cup. Now the games have started I hope the reporting lifts several notches.