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A rugby game isn't a matter of life or death. It's much more important than that.

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So one team that has been historically better than us does.

Surely what the majority of the best teams do is the lesson.

It’s completely irrelevant what Chile, Uruguay, Portugal and Spain do.

'We’d like to see Taniela stay': RA 'absolutely' want Thor for Lions, have 'contingency plans' for Rebels crisis

Must be made up that Irish and French clubs are making big offers too.

'We’d like to see Taniela stay': RA 'absolutely' want Thor for Lions, have 'contingency plans' for Rebels crisis

Yep Horne doesn’t have a clue. Schmidt doesn’t have a clue. The Irish and French clubs making big offers don’t have a clue.

Only you are a good judge of talent.

'We’d like to see Taniela stay': RA 'absolutely' want Thor for Lions, have 'contingency plans' for Rebels crisis

The point is just because most of the time people don’t get hurt, it doesn’t mean it should be legal.

Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary

You’re literally making things up. He jumps. Both feet are off the ground.

Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary

They train them to jump fully upright into tackles?

Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary

Because they are coached to do it that makes it ok?

Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary

He jumped into contact and made contact with the head.

That’s reckless.

Just because it’s accidental it doesn’t mean it’s not reckless. You can’t seem to understand this.

Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary

Hang on.

If Walsh’s cheek hit the underside of May’s chin doesn’t that just show that May went into the contact extremely high?

Based on May’s underside of his chin being at cheek height his shoulder would have been around head height. Given Walsh didn’t duck into it, that sounds reckless from May…

Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary

None of this can be true because all I read from the punters is about how average Tupou is and he’s never performed…

'We’d like to see Taniela stay': RA 'absolutely' want Thor for Lions, have 'contingency plans' for Rebels crisis

That would actually give a good shift.

Even if you extend the bench, it’s use wouldn’t really change expect for injury.

Your best front rower after a 20 min spell is still better than your 5th best front rower for example. So even if you widened the bench and carried 6 front rowers instead of 4, coaches will want to get their best 4 on over the 5th and 6th choice. And the same equation works for other positions unless there is injury.

But going with this changes the dynamic completely. You can’t just play your starting props for 30, give them a spell and then sub them back on after half time and get 50-60 really impactful minutes. You know need to get a full 40 out of them.

NRL can reduce concussion headache by expanding the number of interchange players - with a retro twist

Because the defender is the only one trying to make contact…

NRL can reduce concussion headache by expanding the number of interchange players - with a retro twist

I haven’t watched every Brumbies game but I’d disagree with that. Gibbon pushed him around every scrum in Round 1.

Five things we learned: Schmidt's selection headache, Carter's a No.12 wildcard, and $1m Thor must step up

You mean the sites that suit your biases?

Why desperate Rabbitohs need to adopt NRL's version of Bazball - it's a guaranteed win-win situation

Or perhaps no pollie is a dumb enough Tigers supporter.

Leichhardt isn’t their main ground.

They are based and play most of their games elsewhere.

Hard to justify throwing tax payer dollars at the Tigers’ holiday home.

'I don't have spare dollars': Death sentence for Leichhardt as NSW Premier rejects Tigers' reno plans

Held to account in parliament?

Albanese asked to intervene as former Dees doctor drops bombshell over players dodging drug tests

I’d say it’s easily decided when a player jumps into contact and makes contact with the head

Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary

Absolutely you can

Wonder kid offered 3-yr, $1.6m deal to stay in Aussie rugby - and why it could see Wallabies stars leave Ballymore

He’s not an unproven youngster at SR level. He proved himself at that level last year already.

The only question is how good a player will he become at test level.

It’s hardly shocking we are paying him 1/4 of what the best players are earning and an amount that many players who have proven less than he has, are getting in the NRL.

Sua’ali’i for example was offered $650-700k a year by NRL clubs before he even played a senior game.

Wonder kid offered 3-yr, $1.6m deal to stay in Aussie rugby - and why it could see Wallabies stars leave Ballymore

Some of the comments are just delusional.

If you read through the match stats for the 6 Nations, some of the stats Tupou is putting up from the bench is similar to what the starting TH’s are. There is of course the odd outlier like the Scottish TH making 22 tackles in one game. But for most the starting TH’s are having a couple of runs for a couple of meters and making 5-6 tackles.

Last week Tupou came off the bench and had 8 runs for 43 meters. 4 Tackles and a pilfer. This would be big and huge impact attack numbers and standard defence numbers.

'Such an emotional guy': Why RA should let their biggest star leave for the sake of the Wallabies

I’m a pretty progressive person. I’ve never heard somebody claim that if a landlord won’t modernise a house for a tenant they should give the house to the tenant…

'I don't have spare dollars': Death sentence for Leichhardt as NSW Premier rejects Tigers' reno plans

How is it careless?

He jumped into the contact mate.

Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary

Most drink drivers don’t kill somebody.

Yet it’s still not legal.

Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary

And the onus is on the defender to not recklessly initiate collisions that can go wrong easily.

Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary

How is jumping upright into the contact due care?

Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary

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