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IRB must help smaller nations keep players

17 Jun 2010

The developing nations, in any sport, are the greatest hope for expansion, survival and worldwide popularity. With the advent of professionalism, there lies one great problem in developing nations, in that players who are often some of the best in the world, at the forefront of the development, are stolen by those developed sporting nations. [...]

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I come out of my self imposed hibernation to say that the one thing I am told by leagueys who also watch rugby is that "Rugby is a game you have to understand to watch, and its quite hard to understand all the rules" This is the most confronting issue rugby has in Australia. Overcoming it will be the toughest battle, only then can rugby go on to win the war.

Is rugby confusing or just misunderstood?

9 Aug 2011

They did a study on brain damage and the various football contact sports at USyd I believe, the conclusion was that the helmets actually dmaged the brain more. besides if you introduce helmets, it means everyone has to wear helmets, which aint gonna happen considering most of the plays pointed out where only used by forwards.

The case for real helmets in rugby

9 May 2011

Mostly twitter and GGR, also busy with uni.

Rugby in America spreads its wings

9 May 2011

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