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Is it time to bring in the rugby friendly?

27 Jun 2012

As the dust settles on the June Tests and the Wallabies head back to their respective Super XV teams most fans will be well and truly satisfied with the clean sweep over current Six Nations champions Wales.

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Wallabies butcher a Test win over the All Blacks

There is a common theme appearing when these illegal incidents occur. Richie McCaw blatantly breaking laws to upset the opposition. I feel like Higgers was making a statement to McCaw that they weren't going to let him get away with it whether the ref penalises him or not. I also saw him get rucked at one stage when he 'rolled away'through the middle of the Wallabies side of the ruck (bring back rucking)! All the analysis aside, the Wallabies and All Blacks keep on producing fantastic contests in Brisbane.

21 Oct 2012

Is it time to bring in the rugby friendly?

Junior, you make a good point but you are thinking too much if this concept is too hard. When tours are scheduled, at that point it should be determined if the match should receive test status or not however the games should still to be IRB sanctioned and players still have the opportunity to represent their country. The Scotland game is a prime example, the Welsh series was clearly the key matches for June and the Scottish game was a warm-up and therefore should not have received full test status. Surely both the SRU and ARU knew when scheduling that game that the Wallabies were never going to play a full strength side.

27 Jun 2012

Is it time to bring in the rugby friendly?

Interesting feedback, however my point was simply that the games such as Samoa last year, Scotland this year or even the years when England brought a bunch of kids and were beaten by 60 points are clearly not two nations playing their best 'test' players. Call these games what you want but you can not deny that these matches de-value a true test match such as the recent series against Wales. The 'A' team concept would be an easy answer here but it seems to have lost momentum in recent times. I think it would be great for the game globally to see the likes of Russia and Georgia playing against NZ 'A' or Australia 'A'.

27 Jun 2012