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Mick Gold Coast QLD

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Member Since:: August 2008
Based In:: Gold Coast QLD
Favourite Sporting Team:: Eastwood Rugby; whoever is playing those Randwick mongrels; & any team playing England at anything. League lost me when they booted my beloved Souths
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Getting the call right for better rugby scrums

2 Mar 2010

After watching five matches this weekend, I saw a real muck up by the referees as they call “Crouch, touch, pause, engage”. This alone led to unnecessary and avoidable penalties. My solution is to dispense with “Pause”.

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The Galloping Greens are rugby’s benchmark

... which you will no doubt enjoy, especially early on in that period when those mongrels gave the Mighty Woods a sniff for about 15 minutes of the ('89?) grand final and then walloped us - at that point I watched Poidevin stride around the open side of a scrum over near the grandstand, break through and help craft a try and we were merely the supporting act for the remainder. That's about as close as one could hope to get to Randwick in their great years. They were good, these blokes nominated last Thursday as Bloody Good. Those who watched Campese throughout his career are most fortunate (the uninformed rubbish I read about him offered by excitable baby Roarers does greatly amuse me). To see Mark Ella be effortless and lazy and scintillating was even better. Of course the glue that bound that team together - Maxwell, Walker, Eddie, Cheika, the talented David Knox, Waugh - remained there for year after year and consequently the Firsts became a marvelously cohesive unit which simply excelled. There was a contradiction though - as far back as the early '90s they had few juniors. I recall one of their mid teens sides being included in the Eastwood juniors for a bit, when my son was playing there. I'm out of touch with Sydney Club rugby now, although I make a point of attending a game with my son when I visit Sydney, any game will do. I don't know how Randwick has survived the past 20 years without that vital local juniors culture and support.

4 days ago

Ruthless NZ defence too much for France

A fair summary I say, Kiwi in Europe. As good as they are the fact that they can improve markedly from the first game demonstrates a determined mindset from Hansen and his players, which is a good omen for their season.

4 days ago

Deans confirms no spot for Quade Cooper

"Id rather play the best Wallabies possible ..." And that, Well Ruck Me, is a pretty fair summary in my book.

10 Jun 2013

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