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I'm torn. There is certainly talent coming through Wellington (Wainui etc) and the upper South Is but I don't see the justification in another team. I would support another team most definitely, but I don't see fan support being significant enough to warrant it. An example (a poor one) would...

I think most international teams should be frightened. Where other coaches look to consolidate what resources they have, Hansen looks to have looked at this last International Season and said "We can make them better in year prior to the World Cup, Let's bring some backup"

Based on your height/weight and that you've played in the backs in Union, best to probably play as 2nd Row. The rest of the size/skill of your team mates will probably dictate that by the end of the season. A prop's role in league is simple. Go forward and make as many metres as you can on...

I bought it off steam - I wouldn't recommend it in its current state. It would need a fair amount of patches but ultimately it's taken Rugby as a videogame back quite a few years. I spent time playing RWC 11 a couple of weeks prior as build up, but that had better game play. I too, would not...

Unlikely that the books will be opened or if they are they will likely be heavily falsified. Unfortunately, you have to understand the inherent corruption within Samoan politics and Government to know that this won't be resolved until there is a complete clean out of the SRU. That won't happen...

Season kicks off tonite. It's going to be brutal.

It would be a great idea. Not too sure if logistically it would be possible. The other important thing would be having it in the same YEAR because technically, both teams are last years champions. That's not to slight those teams but importantly, how many of the Wigan Warriors from last year...

First 2 pages of this thread was about throwing Benji on. Lolz. Surplus to requirements yesterday. JK learnt a harsh lesson last year, so I'm a little bit more tolerant about how they progress this year. It was Sir GH that pushed for SBW - So I think they have some kind of judgement on when or...

Congrats to the 'Landers. Disappointed with the Blues but it's the beginning of the season. I thought our forwards were out muscled and the attack was too lateral - I must be old school - coz I keep thinking we should've played the game down at their end and put in more smarter kicks. Not sure...

Won't happen. It would amazing but it (like everything else) is a money thing. Could take it one further and incorporate a 9's or an All star match. The game was a bit disappointing, but you said it best - Roosters had more fire power. Wigan were missing Pat Richards, Sam Tomkins, Harrison...

Yep. Meant the national team. Sorry bout Tompkins as well. Also - http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/sam-burgess-will-suit-the-centres-andy-farrell-20140219-32z58.html

It's a loss to English league, but I don't think much of a gain for English union. He can't play in the forwards in Union because the rest of the backrow will be carrying him. It took Brad Thorn a few years of intense rugby to become settled in the game and that was after switching between 8 and...

It was spectacular. Pretty good Auckland weekend if you could get here. 9's. Lantern Fest. Rapture...etc. Anyways, League had a world 7's. Just didn't capture enough imagination. "Technically" older than the current 7's World Series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_League_World_Sevens In...

On the whole, very positive changes but too early to tell. Stop the Clock is silly in a sense. Because, it in of itself, just lacks consistency - time wasting should stamped out from the 1st to the last minute of the game - to suddenly decide that the previous 75 minutes had no previous time...

I hope it's nothing like the current 7's tbh, which is about the party, it's about the after party - and whilst I don't mind that - I actually watch the 7's for most of the matches. I'm hoping that we can promote the 9's as a family event rather than the boozefest costume parade that the...

Just google the Kangaroos - the wikipedia entry alone will show you how dominant they are at this form of the sport. Agreed - it was beautiful from the Aussies and just the tries alone showed the difference between the quality of the teams.

We were just terrible - as much as the Kangaroos dominated - we didn't give them too much to worry about. After last weeks match, we should've known that trying to bully a forward pack doesn't work. They just owned the Ruck area. Unfortunately for Johnson, most people will remember last weeks...

Just for laughs and for one match only. I would remove the forward pass rule. Just anarchy...anarchy every where.

We will win. The desire and lessons from the England game will carry through. We will need to drop one of our bigger props for Sam Moa. We need to get rid of Taylor. Kearney needs to do what he planned (or what Wayne Bennett planned) in 08 and have someone constantly harass Jonathan Thurston...

Not really that concerned. We were putting up a new front row, we had to pull another player through illness - effectively our tight five lacked much cohesion (just check out the maul defense as opposed to other matches), your loosies are only ever going to be effective if a) Your tight five...