Perth Spirit vs Brisbane City: NRC live scores

You have misinterpreted my words, When I say Club, I mean players that normally play in the Pindan comp. There are a lot of players with Force Development contacts that don't make the Game day 23, ever. Verity-Am is a good example. Injuries to Newsome and Morahan brought him into the spotlight. Sure he may have had a Force contract but it was a development contract which is a difference with distinction. I know it doesn't suit your narrative. Would you prefer I used the term "Development players" so that it survives under your cross examination. I disagree with you on the NRC. It is an Elite Pathway, Getting together Fringe Wallabies, Experienced players and Young Guns, getting them to train and play together for the greater good.. Without it, How do the Club players get the experience to prepare them for SR? The chasm is too wide to make the leap.

It was a tribal rant (not mine), we are still bitter that "We" got the axe even though the Heartland team is under performing. The continuation of it at NRC level just twists the knife and with other roarers making excuses that the Spirit are stacked. You also quoted players that had not started for the Force since 2015, muddying the stats.

So a kickoff time for a Brisbane-Perth game was selected to suit Sydney viewers. And they wonder why we are raging against the machine!

Sure. Just refer to all my comments above that correct statements made...

Would you kindly outline the blatant lies?

Maybe that's why the game evened up later then?

TWAS, if you include Jooste, then Spirit did have 13 SR players in the run-on side, compared to 9 from City. But then City had 4 SR players in their bench, including a Wallaby, while the Spirit only had a single SR player coming back from injury. 14 vs 13 SR players in the 23. Spirit made better use of their resources, but it's incorrect for anyone to say that the Spirit was 'stacked' against a less-stacked side, which is what others were implying.

No. Not hatred. Just unwillingness to accept blatant lies. Which I am willing to point out why they are lies. The only interest I have in the Rebels/Rising is I play club rugby in Melbourne. I'm a Reds fans and always have been. Clearly you have me mistaken.

Make that the Rising and Rebels.

TWAS, your hatred of everything in the West has been noted by many. When will you declare your interest in the Rising and Spirit?

It's always a slight exaggeration on the Force. Jooste may not have made his debut but spent 2016 and 2017 in the Brumbies full time squad. It's not about being "first teamers". It's about being full time professionals against part timers. A distinct advantage. Bris City had 9 Super Rugby players in their starting team. So you agree they had less than the 13 that the Spirit had?

'To access the streams, you’ll need a Fox Sports online account, which is not the same as your Foxtel pay-tv account.' Which is ridiculous as your subscription account should do the job for all Fox apps and websites.

Of the Spirit side, only Cowan, Grant and Brache were established with the Force this time last year; Arnold, Koteka, Ruru and Rangi were with the Force, but weren't exactly first teamers. This year the Force brought in Vui, Havili, Naisarani, Verity-Amm and Peni, with only the latter three establishing themselves. Ferris, Uyen and Jooste have never played Super Rugby. And the only sub with any SR experience was Ainsley who's coming back from injury. The Spirit had a total of 20 international caps in their line-up. Brisbane City had 9 Super Rugby players, totalling over 100 international caps, in their starting 15, with another 4 SR players in the reserves, including one international. Therefore, each side had 13 SR players in their 23, with City's players having significantly more international experience.

Canberra and Perth have put local development players in a couple of their matches which led to losses. Both fielded their strongest possible team on the weekend.

NSW (Sydney) moved to daylight savings on Sunday morning, so kick-off was still 5pm Sydney time, just 2pm Perth time, rather than 3pm.

Not on utube anywhere for those of us outside oz?

No its not. As I have repeatedly pointed out, they did not use a single Perth "club player" in 2017. The only club players brought in outside the full time squad was Mitch Short from Randwick. The other was Carmichael the loan from Edinburgh. Every other player used was named in their official squad. The Force only have 12 local players. 1. Ainsley 2. Hardwick 3. RHP 4. Koteka 5. Rangi 6. Scoble 7. Burton 8. DHP 9. Louwrens 10. Peni 11. Rona Only Rona and Peni made their Super Rugby debuts this year. Who are these supposed club players? But anyway, I don't see why the NRC should have more club players. It's about preparing the best, not giving everybody a go.

Not sometime in their life. In 2017. Current players essentially. I have no issue with that. I only have an issue with graceless comments when that team defeats much less stacked sides. I think "is that the best NSW has to offer" was one of them after beating the Rams.

Rebs team looks pretty light on for stars. Which I think is a good thing. Allows guys like Macgregor and Mattocks to get some face time and hopefully some recognition. I think the NRC should have more club players, not less. It is just that the Force Dug deep into their club stocks as injury cover early this year a lot of club players earned their stripes and are now recognized as SR players.

At some point in the past you posted that something like 20 out of the 23 players had had an SR contract at some time in their life. - your Straw man, not mine. Granted you never said it was unfair but it was in response backing someone that said it was.