FRESH OFF THE BLOG

[waiopehu oldboy]

Dunno about you guys but I reckon my daily intake of G&GR is 97% the fora & most of the rest is the "daily news" email that hits my inbox most days. Lately, though, I've come to realise that the content & comments on the blog are at least comparable to anything you'll find on a "proper" rugby site (remembering that Greg Growden writes for one of them).

So I've resolved to check the blog daily & thought I'd share the best bits.

First up, this ripper of a piece from @Xaviera on the Super Rugby law changes we'll need to be getting our heads around real soon:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/5-key-law-changes-need-know/

We also need to get our heads around the new Super Rugby structure & format, and the resultant draw. I had a go at it & the result was about as sexy as Aunty Doris Gunston in her brunch cost & rollers. Fortunately @Lee Grant gave it some TLC & added a few bits so it's now at least Aunty Doris frcked up for a night down the RSL.........

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/super-rugby-changes-for-2016/

Lastly is this from @MST on the unfolding David Pocock situation viz his wanting to take a gap year:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/birth-aru-sabbatical/

Enjoy.

 

[Gagger]

Good stuff WO - look forward to you sharing our analysis of the cheatin AB tactics!

 

[cyclopath]

Good stuff WO - look forward to you sharing our analysis of the cheatin AB tactics!

You should re-animate Scarfy to update it!

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Good stuff WO - look forward to you sharing our analysis of the cheatin AB tactics!

Fresh Off The Blog Rule #1: must be something you don't already see multiple times on the fora But keep it fair & balanced (say by getting @Dismal Pillock to provide his analysis of the cheatin Wobbly tactics) & who knows? Maybe I'll give 'em both a plug..............

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/super-champions-which-team-was-best/

In which Bobas, Rugby Reg & Braveheart81 debate which of the '04 Brumbies, '11 Reds or '14 Waratahs was the better Super Rugby Champion (correct answer is of course Reds, Brumbies got off to a flyer 'cos Deans didn't start Merts & we all know how lucky the 'tahs were with that last penalty )

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Every match involving an Australian team gets its own blog review, now they've added "Foreign Exchanges", a series of 200-word reviews of the weekends non-Strayan action.

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/foreign-exchanges-round-1-super-rugby/

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

More great work from @Xaviera on the law & interpretation changes:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/guide-2016-law-interpretations/

 

[cyclopath]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Careful, WO, we'll have to offer you one of those new Kiwi Citizenships if you keep big-upping us!

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^^^^^^^^^ 'tis a kind offer & im truly flattered but on the whole I'd sooner move to D'Auckland & become a Bloos supporter

 

[cyclopath]

^^^^^^^^^ 'tis a kind offer & im truly flattered but on the whole I'd sooner move to D'Auckland & become a Bloos supporter

Careful, I'll get a Kickstarter going with @Dismal Pillock's help.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^^^^^^^^^^ anyway, if you're dishing out special citizenships there's this kid our niece went to school with who probably needs it more than me, Quade's his name

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

You may have heard that the Reds & Richard Graham have parted ways. Here's @SuckerForRed's take on it:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/big-news-day-graham-gone/

Likely to get buried under the Richard Graham fallout but still worth a look is Ep 2 of Foreign Exchanges, in which various writers offer their 200-word summaries of the games that didn't feature any Strayan team(s):

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/foreign-exchanges-round-2-super-rugby/#disqus_thread

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Hugh Cavill tries to make sense of the apparent breakdown in relations between the ARU & at least some Shute Shield clubs:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/dollars-and-sense-the-aru-club-rugby-and-the-five-year-plan/

Looking forward to Matt Rowley's counter-piece (if the @Barbarian/ @GAGR "AUSTRALIAN RUGBY/ ARU" forum thread exchanges are anything to go by, it'll be a cracker).

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Foreign Exchanges #3:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/foreign-exchanges-round-3-super-rugby/#disqus_thread

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Foreign Exchanges #4 is up:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/foreign-exchanges-round-4-super-rugby/

Also a backgrounder on the bizarre goings-on at the Brumbies:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/brumbies-ceo-stood-down/#disqus_thread

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Hugh Cavill on the dramas out West & the suggestion they be relocated to Western Sydney:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/the-future-of-the-force-perth-or-western-sydney/#disqus_thread

More Foreign Exchanges:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/foreign-exchanges-super-rugby-round-5/#disqus_thread

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Another edition of Foreign Exchanges, published in record time:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/foreign-exchanges-round-6-super-rugby/