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Targeting the Crusaders with your comments is grossly unfair. Name me a rugby team anywhere on the planet that plays within the Laws of the game.

If you think the the Blues were lily white...

Not quite.

The head on replay was shown twice. It was a clear and obvious knock forward by Higginbotham

If the force of a tackle dislodges the ball, it is not a knock on against the tackler,...

Not to mention the way he went about undermining Mark Hammett's authority at the Hurricanes before he left.

Here is what the table looks like with byes removed. It gives a better idea of where everyone is in relation to each other...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/98915197/2013-SRTable-nobyes.png

Keep in mind that four of the Aussie teams are about one round ahead of the rest. No Australian teams will be playing in week 19 (July 5-7) and they are not byes so they wont be getting 4 points in...

Your local Rugby Club, RFC Augsburg, has a facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/RFC.Augsburg

Try posting something on their wall.

Even if you don't speak German, if you try posting in...

There was also a "Four Home Unions" v "The Rest of Europe" benefit match played at Twickenham on the 22nd April 1990. I was a fundraiser in aid of rebuilding Romania after the overthrow of...

Ahem!

Referees do not "create" Laws, they simply do their best to interpret them

Its the iRB "Rugby Committee" who are the lawmakers, and there aren't many referees on that committee


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This is not typical of modern scrummaging. I cant say I've ever seen a prop binding on a flanker before, and in all likelihood, the prop didn't even know that's where his bind was. I guess this is...

Since way back before the introduction of the hit. It actually made sense then, since we used to have scrums that looked like this...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtdfE_aL0cI

From the time...

AIUI, ITM Cup, Rugby Championship then the NH season and Automn Intermnationals

NOT this year's June tours or the Lions Tour, as players would have to change, then change back for the remainder...

No worries mate. When people call me "Old School", I consider it a compliment not an insult.




Well, not quite.

So long as they kept allowing the front rows to compete with each other...

Some of us are "old school" enough to remember that this "new scrum process" is a case of back to the future.

This new process is very much like scrummaging used to be, before some fool decided to...

Sheer madness!

He's trying to invent a sort of 20/20 for rugby.

Like this?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH-jWfm8z1c

Possible, but difficult to do at a line-out, because you cannot come around and tackle the ball carrier until the ball has left the...

1. Lack of money and resources, leading to

2. Lack of playing time together on a regular basis, not helped by

3.

Now that we have an All French ERC final, I wonder of the Premiership clubs are now going to say that its all too easy for the French Clubs to qualify?



The definition of "better" all depends...

What really, really annoys me is seeing the tactics the NZ teams are try to use when defending the rolling maul. Too many times I see NZ teams with two players in a maul, trying to stop a five or six...

If you saw the Brumbies v Crusaders match tonight you would have seen Craig Joubert do exactly what you are asking. Twice he penalised players (one from each team) for putting their hands on the...

Yep. that is what the Law says and its how it is supposed to be interpreted. The jackler must support his bodyweight entirely on his own feet. If he leans on the ground with either hand, or uses the...

I agree completely.

I don't usually like to slam referees and officials (except for the now retired Stu Dickinson, who IMO was never good enough to referee at this level), but this guy really is...

Yep. Union fly-halves have to deal with something that a League stand-off doesn't... its called "openside flanker"

I wouldn't either, except that the ARU would have to change its selection policy to pick him.

He is currently on contract with Suntory in Japan, and is effectively "on loan" to the Brumbies....

The Wallabies will likely choose a loose forward trio from

Scott Higginbotham (6 & 8)
Liam Gill (7)
Wycliffe Palu (8)
Michael Hooper (7)
Ben Mowen (6 & 8)

This is a very, very highly...

Sorry, but what did my comment have to do with your faith?

BTW, many of your comments clearly show that you have little if any idea about life in this country. Some things about a country can't...