Leinster score late to keep perfect record alive at Ulster's expense

Yep, but creating the teams to have half them fail (only half can every have winning%) isn't going to succeed.

You have to have it be meaningful, that is the way to get people on board. They will support a true NSW rep side whether they're good enough to beat QLD or the Blues or not. Then below that you have a club team (which those players get selected from) which you support because it's your local.

As such having 4+ Sydney teams will be a must have they must rotate around in their own group. Same with QLD having it's own group, and then the rest of Aus it's own group. Get a little cross play going on after that.

Hooper (their captain, and best player for the best part of a decade) had to call an assistant to find out that he had been dropped, Quade found out during the team announcement, his humiliating rants when he was asked reasonable questions by the media, then he repeatedly lied about knowing nothing about the Japan job.

Thought still applies though as it can always get better!

They're B teams, not state teams, demeans the brand imo. Though Waratahs should probably be let go private by NSW rugby, so they can use that name! But, I think I heard that too.

Got to be at least 8 teams however.

I'm not sure there is the movement around him for his link play to be that influential anymore, Crowley the most solid and likely to produce that solid Dmac V Ireland (which I was actually critical of mind you) performance.

Some better field position would actually help this WB team a lot. A good time to giving the youngsters an opportunity imo, and helps keep momentum hopefully building to a positive B&I Lions contest!

So win win ;)

There was nothing to discuss, it was simply impossible to have a tournament the following year. It was SA (who with no other option I assume) who decided without discussing that they were going to join the Pro rugby.

If turned out great, why the hell are you bringing it up? You can do that once you've explained how Bismark got away without sanction for collected Dan Carter with his head!

What, Sopoaga filled in admirably for Cruden, got the game in 2015 for us in SA. He could easily have been chosen to run the team if available when Beauden was dropped after 2018. It wasn't all down to pressure from Mo'unga to be given the jersey.

Whenever, he came in when Carter kept going down, that could have been Anscombe. Look what really matters is the possibility of it having gone down that way! The story first came out about Mo'unga going to Japan in May 2022, he was locked in to leave even before he became a prime AB, same with Frizell basically (around the visit to SA time), so is more of an example of my cases about coming into contention while being signed overseas than you being hung up on whether it showed they can keep hold of most of their players.

Or did that happen before he had to fill in for Waikato in the finals and so he's changed his mind about being able to contribute? He was nearly as wooden legged as Beaver was when he came back for the Chiefs from overseas mind you.