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Didnt see much as i was watching the Derby. Like the new guernsey.On a slightly different tack, that was a helluva Rugby Test. I get it was a dead rubber but a great win, and they had to start somewhere.
I get the same vibe as the dead rubber in Auckland in 1978 when Cornelson got 4 tries from the back row. That really heralded a changing of the guard.
Could be I'm just an optimist.
Yeah I did too. I've always liked watching Rugby. Find it a lot easier to appreciate than league coming from an AFL background.Didnt see much as i was watching the Derby. Like the new guernsey.
Should wear it always.
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On a slightly different tack, that was a helluva Rugby Test. I get it was a dead rubber but a great win, and they had to start somewhere.
I get the same vibe as the dead rubber in Auckland in 1978 when Cornelson got 4 tries from the back row. That really heralded a changing of the guard.
Could be I'm just an optimist.
2003 was the last one. They had the country in the palm of their hand and money growing on trees.I'm going with optimist.
So many false dawns for Aussie rugby...
2003 was the last one. They had the country in the palm of their hand and money growing on trees.
Then they absolutely fluffed it.
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I think this side has the capacity. Yes I'm an optimist. I can see a Bledislie beckoning next year, and Bill coming home in 2019. Just have to hope Super Rugby survives another two years to give us a springboard.2003 was the last one. They had the country in the palm of their hand and money growing on trees.
Then they absolutely fluffed it.
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Sorry mate. Wobblies always give us hope in the dead rubber game each year.I think this side has the capacity. Yes I'm an optimist. I can see a Bledislie beckoning next year, and Bill coming home in 2019. Just have to hope Super Rugby survives another two years to give us a springboard.
I can also see Australian Rugby in decline if they dont fix the mess of a contrived competition the Super Rugby has become. There's a real chance if a split like world series cricket, and we've very nearly been there before in the 90's with Rugby, when it finally went professional at the elite level.
It's a salient lesson if what happens when the broadcaster owns the game, and there's no effective pushback from the games administration in my view. AFL take note.
Both New Zealand and South Africa would survive a rift ok because they have a strong domestic competition and can retreat to the NPC or the Currie cup if necessary. The Nothern Hemisphere have very strong club competitions. We probably wouldn't as a competitive Country anyway, because we really dont.
Although the Crowd at the Shute Shield GF at North Sydney Oval was encouraging and a sign Rugby fans are taking a step back to the roots of club rugby I think.
I'm probably not that much of an optimist after all.
I dont think we disagree that much. Possibly that I like Rugby and want it to succeed. I've never liked NRL and we differ there I think.Sorry mate. Wobblies always give us hope in the dead rubber game each year.
Then doing nothing a year later.
Lets remember its been a very long time since a Grand Slam win in Europe let alone the the Bledisloe.
As for Ol Bill we are a long way away. Rugby is growing around the world at record levels yet in Oz its plummeting to record lows.
Only good rugby to watch are the State comps (Shute leading the way) and NRC.
Super has been aweful for years
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I dont think we disagree that much. Possibly that I like Rugby and want it to succeed. I've never liked NRL and we differ there I think.
Bear in mind we held the Bledisloe for a long time before handing it back to the AB's, who've now held it for a bloody long time I agree.
You're probably right about Super Rugby and the signs have been there for a while. It's the conferences and the breaking of commitments to the Force that seem to be bringing it to a head though.
My view is that hopefully a genuine competition in Oceania including pacific nations like Fiji, Tonga and Samoa will grow from the ashes. Travel makes South Africa, Argentina and Japan ultimately impractical I think.
Fair enoughI never want a sport to fail, sometimes the NRL Pushes that friendship though.
I think Japan being in the same time zone and with the crowds they are getting have earned the right to stay in a professional comp.
Argies need to stay, they will be champs in a few years, as they had progressed as far as they could as an amateur nation and with the removal of SA then the travel aint so bad.
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First day of the Gabba test, so am IDay 1 of the Ashes today! I really only get around cricket when we lay the Poms. The rest I couldn't really care about, but today I am PUMPED!