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If you don't want teams knowing your line-out moves you *definitely* don't want other teams knowing who has a dicky ankle this week if you can help it.

Although Cortisone might technically be a steroid it really annoys me when the media conflate performance enhancing drugs, banned substances and steroids. Compare this story to weightlifting where you have whole teams of people getting caught taking what the layman thinks of as *actual*...

I think it makes sense to share the home games between the grounds of the different clubs. A 7-9 round season means 4-5 home games, so that's one each for Gordon, Manly, Norths and Warringah.

Also, doing some quick maths on the player numbers we get: 35*5=175 Contracted+EPS super rugby players minus 30 Wallabies + 10-20 Team rehab equals ~130 available super rugby players 25-30 players in each NRC squad * 8-10 teams = 200-300 players total So this would involve 70-170 players...

Looks like they've left lots of wriggle room on who will actually make up the teams. Any predictions? Personally I can see: 1. Sydney University 2. Eastwood / Macquarie Uni 3. Randwick / UNSW 4. Balmain? (Funded by Warren Livingstone) 5. Melbourne (associated with Rebels and one or more...

That leaves a pretty narrow group that he's criticising. Moore and AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) I don't think anybody else has played close to 90 tests, only one of those two was in the 'Dublin 6'.

Point taken on that one. The key word being "IF" and even then you hedge your bets by saying "very strong chance". If we assume that there's a 50% chance of him being healthy and a 50% chance of somebody becoming better than him in the meantime then that means he's a 0.5x0.5=25% chance of...

I think a good approach is to attempt to predict the 'best three players in each position'. Then whittle down the squad with a slight preference for players who can play multiple positions. The players in each position are in descending order. I have put ages in braces where I think that is an...

http://www.odt.co.nz/sport/rugby/highlanders/278353/rugby-brown-coach-highlanders And the winner is... nobody. The announcement was for their new attack coach.... who already coaches Otago, so not exactly left-field. They LIED TO ME!

So do you have any other evidince of it being Thomas?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-AK (Andrew Kellaway)-ash3/1383566_10151965109387249_1299703104_n.jpg They've put up a teaser on their facebook page saying it will be announced on Thursday, 12.01pm Any guesses? Mine is JOC (James O'Connor)

What evidence do you have for that? The previous post just said that Mogg is as fast as the guy who was considered to be the fastest player in rugby (for a time). Additionally, from memory JOC (James O'Connor) seems to be consistently as fast or faster than just about anybody going around. Where are these...

I was sitting behind the goal line and all I saw was sideways running and shoveling. That was also what lead to the last AB try... Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

Taking a punt on a possible team.. bold are positions that I see as set in stone, debutaunts are in italics. 1 Robbo 2 Moore 3 Alexander 4 Douglas 5 Horwill 6 Mowen 7 Smith 8 Palu 9 Genia 10 Cooper 11 Ioane 12 Taps 13 AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) 14 Mogg 15 JOC (James O'Connor) 16 TPN 17 Slipper 18 MMM 19 Higgers...

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TPN has the runs on the board at international level. I've seen lots of people on this board calling for Hanson to start ahead of Fainga'a, I haven't watched all the games myself but that doesn't excactly say he's in scintillating form. I could handle Douglas instead of Pyle, in fact I should...

I think this is what the team will roughly look like, barring injuries. Pyle is a bit of a bolter but I have a soft spot for him because he went to my school. Also we need somebody to run the lineouts and I don't think Simmons has ever looked the goods as a Wallaby. Robinson Moore Palmer Pyle...

Regarding the '100 test bonus' that people were talking about earlier and the problem of the sick incentive for the ARU to then bench players on their 99th test: One option would be to have a 'match payment scale' i.e. you get 1k for your first wallaby match, 2k for your second etc. You would...

The thing about this instance is that the concerned group of individuals put in their own time and effort to organise this thing. There is no 'gay quota' for the wallabies or any other "special treatment" for gay players. Except for the negative kind which as you point out still happens from...

And I think that if they had done that JOC (James O'Connor) wouldn't be the player he is now. Richard Graham stated on the podcast a while back that he thinks wing is JOC (James O'Connor)'s best position. I think that at least for the first few years for his wallaby career this was the best place for him to be playing. It...