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Zakar wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 4:45 am Fiji 15 - Sco 7 at half time.

Scotland without their mercs.

And a scoreline not reflective of the dominance the Fijians have displayed.

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Chile look in great shape heading into WC qualifying, comfortably beating a somewhat depleted Romania 40-16. Romania were nearly back in the game in the 2nd half, before a red card for a dangerous clean. USA host Belgium in just over an hour on RPTV. Will be a good marker of where Belgium are at be...

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Pat the Ex Mat wrote: ↑Sat Jul 05, 2025 5:27 am
Jeff the Bear wrote: ↑Fri Jul 04, 2025 11:49 pm I love Oasis, and saw them a couple of times back in the day, but I don't love them enough to fly to Oz at great expense and see them one more time.
Let's be realistic, those Oz dates are not happening anway!

They better happen. I've got tickets.

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Why so short. Why not home and away plus a final = 7 weeks. Club comps presumably. This will be a nice feed in to the EOYT, particularly for players coming back from injury and not in the main Wallabies squad. Could have moved it further back as to not overlap. As yoy suggest it could be a solid le...

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I'm paraphrasing a remark I've seen elsewhere but rugby doesn't grow because you rebrand, it grows if you get more people playing, where's the answer to that ? It's not on the Prem to get more people playing. Their primary concern is to market their competition in order to draw in more viewers, att...

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Glaston wrote: ↑Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:31 pm Falcons sold to Red Bull

It's been doing the rounds as a rumour for weeks. I'm jusy happy to see it coming to fruition. I look forward to seeing what Red Bull Rugby will look like.

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Origin is 3 matches. You have July internationals, TRC and then November tests to fit in for rugby. Missing top players for that much of the business end of the season is a far different prospect than just 3 matches in the middle of the season. It will only be for the July internationals, so 3 test...

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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jun/03/r360-correct-diagnosis-proposed-cure-unproven-rugby-union Amazing. Lolz , has a breakaway worked in any sport ? Cricket. Twice. - Kerry Packer’s World Series in the 70s - IPL Rugby league - Rugby League is in itself a breakaway - Super League (Oz) break...

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NFL is a terrible example. There have been many attempts at competing with the NFL. One of those succeeded and it only succeeded because there were many appropriate markets for the NFL which had not already been claimed by the NFL. And it's version of success was to merge with the NFL, not to destr...

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towny wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 8:23 pm A rugby breakaway that was shutdown when the Force returned to SR.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Rapid_Rugby

Was that really a breakaway? More a vessel to keep the Force alive that once they were back in SRP had served its purpose.

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We hear a lot of bleating from "rugby people" decrying any fundamental restructuring of the game, while at the same time the traditional structures are slowly but surely killing the game. Rugby in its current form has no real future as a global professional sport. It's viable in France (albeit with...

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What is it with Soccer fans in Australia and now in New Zealand acting like a binch of try Green Street Euro Ultra Hooligans try hards ?, it's very cringe like don't you think. https://youtube.com/shorts/P2CG-Y69-uI?si=JJfKiYQ5u72YfcSJ https://youtu.be/NZ9ZNB_YbZc?si=48l8XXq92q6_yM7L It's always be...

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Ted. wrote: ↑Mon Jun 02, 2025 8:52 pm Soccer brings out the worst in even the most then reasonable of people.

Most of my family are big Soccer fans. I grew up following it pretty religiously. Never havevany of them gone over the top in support.

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What is it with Soccer fans in Australia and now in New Zealand acting like a binch of try Green Street Euro Ultra Hooligans try hards ?, it's very cringe like don't you think. https://youtube.com/shorts/P2CG-Y69-uI?si=JJfKiYQ5u72YfcSJ https://youtu.be/NZ9ZNB_YbZc?si=48l8XXq92q6_yM7L It's always be...

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What is it with Soccer fans in Australia and now in New Zealand acting like a binch of try Green Street Euro Ultra Hooligans try hards ?, it's very cringe like don't you think. https://youtube.com/shorts/P2CG-Y69-uI?si=JJfKiYQ5u72YfcSJ https://youtu.be/NZ9ZNB_YbZc?si=48l8XXq92q6_yM7L It's always be...

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Hellraiser wrote: ↑Sun Jun 01, 2025 11:15 am
Working Class Rugger wrote: ↑Sun Jun 01, 2025 10:55 am
Hellraiser wrote: ↑Fri May 30, 2025 10:20 pm Sad news, but it's made me realise Frank is still knocking around at 94.
Are you talking about Larry Linville? Because he died in 2000.
No, Robert Duvall

Ahh, movie Frank.

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Hellraiser wrote: ↑Fri May 30, 2025 10:20 pm Sad news, but it's made me realise Frank is still knocking around at 94.

Are you talking about Larry Linville? Because he died in 2000.

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jo yapp leaving australia after the world cup to return to uk. not a big surprise-results havent been great overall and suggestions her family wanted to return -with the next world cup in australia in only 4 years -they have massive work to do on the pitch and off it(with crowds which are very poor...

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jo yapp leaving australia after the world cup to return to uk. not a big surprise-results havent been great overall and suggestions her family wanted to return -with the next world cup in australia in only 4 years -they have massive work to do on the pitch and off it(with crowds which are very poor...

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I wonder if moving to more regionally focused circuits with a set number of bigger events may be a solution. With the regional circuits operating as qualifiers for the larger events. Have 4 regions. Asia-Pacific, Americas, Europe and Africa. Look to have each region run 4-6 events. Smaller venues. ...

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Anyone in the last 20 years? The IRFU are 100% correct when they say that the best player development pathway is the academies 25 of the players who have featured for Scotland under Gregor Townsend played for Scotland 7s. No-one has come through to the full national XVs side since the team on the W...

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Miami looked like it had a pretty good crowd in attendance last night. NOLA has gone from maybe 500 per game (first season) to probably around 2k. Regarding other teams, I would have expected all teams to be selling out if they played in a 5k stadium by now. That is not happening though. Real quest...

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Aus U20s do it again 40-36

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grievous wrote: ↑Sat May 03, 2025 12:55 pm YouGov was spot on
Pollsters election

And it was said that YouGov overestimated the Labor vote.

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The pre-poll votes which have begun to come in mustn't have moved the way they thought as watching 7 Hume has stopped harping on about them and is playing the victim.

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FT 26 - 14 for Canada. A full 5 points for Canada in the standings. Canada pull away in the final 20 after a US intercept try. USA's D was pretty solid, Canada mostly dominated but failed to put up lots of points, especially in the first 20. Good crowd there in KC, so congrats to the US for that. 1...

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There was also some Libertarian cooker on my ballot who I had to vote for over Trumpet and One Nation. They're present on many ballots. I had to stop and seriously consider who to assign preferences 4-8. Went with Libs at 4 (I live in a safe Lib seat which is bad enough. It's made worse when that L...

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Auckman wrote: ↑Fri May 02, 2025 7:00 am Did it end up 27-27 or something in the NZ/AUS match?

29 all.

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Christchurch all day everyday. Putting a team in Ipswich would be like putting (another) one in Campbelltown - rugby league heartland but sparsely populated and nothing to add in terms of branding. Like the Macarthur A-league team. Just meh. 4 teams in Qld is plenty anyway. The Bulls in the A-Leagu...

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Ali's Choice wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 4:16 am
Working Class Rugger wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 4:14 am
Ali's Choice wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 3:38 am

Did you even read my reply? The first sentence even?

How many travelled over for the doyble header last weekend?
Ask ChatGPT.

You're the one suggesting fans will travel over for games.

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People would do it, especially for an event like a double header. It's a long flight, sure, but if the event was appealing enough then East Coast based NRL fans would do it. In 2019 and 2022 when Perth hosted State of Origin games, lots of East Coasters flew over. Rugby League is slowly building a ...

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AFL and Super already have this. And the only two people I’ve heard of making the trip were those two Demons supporters who did jail time to make the GF! Sometimes I winder if people who make the kinds of comments about popping over to Perth for a weekend have ever flown to Perth and back from the ...

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I think the NRL's expanding into Perth would be a great thing. Opens up a whole new potential market, a nice weekend away for travelling fans from the East Coas t and the potential for late games on Friday and Saturday night to boost TV revenue and satisfy the fans' appetite for more games. I also ...

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I guess convention demands I say RIP but I won't miss him. A bolshevik nutcase who supported Chinese persecution of Christians - how inappropriate for a Pope can you get? I can’t find any reference to your claim about Francis supporting persecution of Chinese Christians, I can however find referenc...

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Winnie wrote: ↑Mon Apr 21, 2025 9:23 am Did some Irish monk not predict the next pope will be the last pope?

I think that was actually supposed to be Francis.

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Having watched several games in this tournament would similar inclusion of the likes of Georgia and Spain be possible at the U20s level? The increased exposure for the likes of Spain etc. not only at the U18s but further up to the U20s would significantly assist in their development. It would also h...

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Great. Wxv has been binned by the looks of things. Something that actually kinda worked from a competition pov... Let's scrap it. Unions wanted more home games to build momentum and keep interest outside of 6n. The abysmal attendance at wxv can't have helped. Can the 6n not just run a competition c...

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Great. Wxv has been binned by the looks of things. Something that actually kinda worked from a competition pov... Let's scrap it. Unions wanted more home games to build momentum and keep interest outside of 6n. The abysmal attendance at wxv can't have helped. Can the 6n not just run a competition c...

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Winger Desiree Miller is the one to watch in that NSW team but it’s Arabella McKenzie the first five who sets that very capable Waratahs backline alight. Been watching SRW for a while now. So I'm familiar with most of the more established Tahs like Miller and McKenzie. Got to see both first hand la...

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Here's hoping that the preseason results is indicative of a good game to come. I'd really like to see more crossover between the two competitions. Would be good if they could have a series of some kind. 1v1, 2v2 and so on. Winger Desiree Miller is the one to watch in that NSW team but it’s Arabella...

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