Game they play in Heaven?  I debuted in first grade at eighteen and was trashed by what felt like the entire University forward pack  .... broken collar bone... my son later captained the University of Southern Queensland side... one time I was spear tackled by two Waratahs forwards... I think they were sent off but I don't remember.... the crowd booed anyway... calling .. "OFF... OFF... OFF" ...

Go the Wallabies against Lions.... ROOOARRR!!

Those were the days.... men were men and women were women and women didn't have penises and men didn't have vag ..... and an Abo player was the same as everyone else..... now 'he' - depending on his identification - would expect to lay a claim over the field as stolen land or something... generational disadvantage due to being child of a lesser culture and wanting to remain immersed in Loser Ideology.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2025 at 8:08pm:


The Wallabies need to find their balls again and remember what it is to WIN!  A few years back I think John Eales said they had forgotten how to win... same as Joey said the Knights had forgotten how to win.... all the talent and skill is right there... go for it!!

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2025 at 8:26pm:


That's what I mean - they lost their balls and their focus on winning - now they play like a pack of sheilas.

The Waratahs - who should be a pre-eminent side in the Rugby world are the same.  They sort of go through the motions without attaining the outcomes.... the Pigs do all the work and there is no depth in the inside backs, and the fifteen stone wingers are now a farce.

Where are the inside centres who change the direction and catch the opposition on the wrong foot?  My BEST try was taking the ball - as left winger - cutting in and taking the ball direct from the half back at a scrum on the 'burst' and going through no less than 5-6 defenders to score a try from just over 25m out. EVERY defender was wrong-footed .... the Wallabies seem to be playing a percentage game and trying to physically overwhelm the opposition, and it is not working to disrupt the set defence of the opposition.

They need skill in the inside backs and some disrupting plays like that - wingers arriving instantly at the point of contest and showing heels ... it's there but somehow lost ... and they need that kind of pattern-busting play.  Their coaches need to look at the defensive patterns of their opposition and work out how to chop those to bits.

Stodgy eight man Rugby is not working.

I'll be watching ...... and probably groaning...

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jul 24^th, 2025 at 8:05pm:


Played in a warm up game against an under 21 NZ team. Spent about 70 minutes being trampled by giant Kiwi's, One of the most miserable afternoons of my life. Prefer RL but was probably a better Rugby player.

Dnarever wrote on Jul 24^th, 2025 at 10:16pm:


Know it - played a schoolies game against NZ - as fullback - in a 'warm-up'... those guys were ferocious. 

BTW - we drew the match.  I didn't score for a change ...

Gentlemen play Rugby - they don't expect kudos from some form of victory just from gamesmanship.  When Rugby becomes a business......... Western civilisation falls...

I signed up for the Open Weight division at school because my best friend was the captain... I was a good stone and a half under weight.... but that's what men do.... now he is grossly over-weight at 76  and very sick - and I am going to wash his windows, do his washing up and his washing, take out his garbage, and clean his house.

I am 76.

No man is left behind in Grappler country.

When Gentlemen leave this earth and are replaced by scum-bags - this world as we know it will disappear.

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jul 24^th, 2025 at 10:50pm:


Added to so I re-post.

Gnads wrote on Jul 26^th, 2025 at 11:12am:


I bet you have some lifelong aches/pains from such a physically tough sport!

Nice be among fellow supporters of the “ world game “.

I believe for many reasons and particularly people ,Rugby in Australia is basically like a fish out of water flapping around starving for oxygen.

To be blunt-  no confidence in the current management of rugby in Australia.

They continue to destroy the game via mismanagement.

A Saudi funded rebel game that completely replaces the current Australian management has to be worth backing?

I’m shocked too hear that they are willing to pay Nathan Clearly 8 million for a three year contract but can only see smart business in shopping around to buy cash strapped NRL clubs for over $200 million.

Why build a club from the ground up when you can just buy South’s or the Titans?

6-5 Wallabies after 19 minutes.

I loved playing breakaway - never that big but fast and stubborn - my son - about four inches taller and much wider than I am - played the same position... but I played mostly backs and was a fullback a lot.

TRY at 23.10... first half... Wallabies 11-5

Lynaghs are related to my grandmother's family - we're related to everyone.

Sophia wrote on Jul 26^th, 2025 at 4:21pm:



You can say that again 

Gnads wrote on Jul 27^th, 2025 at 10:09am:



Bullshit -
the Aussies only made 3 points in the entire 2nd half - they were hopeless.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 27^th, 2025 at 10:37am:


You wouldn't know shyte from clay.

The decision by referees not to penalise Jac Morgan for the high cleanout on Carlo Tizzano is what cost the Wallabies the series.

It doesn't matter what points they made in the 2nd half - they were defending the lead they won in the first half.

Morgan clearly hit into the head&neck of Tizzano.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 27^th, 2025 at 3:08pm:


I’ve since reviewed it and had a “ expert “ ( bloody New Zealand mate) watch it with me and I agree with both Bobby and the ref.

There was no penalty in that.
The lions own the series fair 😭

We don’t need a new coach or new players we need a much better management structure at the top and run by the Saudi Arabia Rebel league to properly fund both the clubs, players and grassroots rugby too advance Rugby in Australia.

I really enjoy rugby, then NFL and league.

With management with integrity and hundreds of millions to spend Rugby could totally knock NRL off the 2nd spot of most popular football in Australia.

AFL is and always will be the most popular.

Nah - high contact with the defending player to create a lower defence is gamesmanship - and should have been penalised.

Any try that followed should have been neutered as effectively as an OzPol progressive or some progressive politician or staff ..

Bobby. wrote on Jul 27^th, 2025 at 3:08pm:


Hitting high in the neck/head of an opposing player is a contravention of the clear out rules.

You wouldn't know shyte from clay.

The ref was in error.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 28^th, 2025 at 7:19pm:


He's a referee - not a QC.

Referees make errors - they're human.

I'd wager I'd know more than you though. 

Thugby league and when there are injuries due to deliberate breaking of the rules then there ought to be criminal charges.

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Jul 29^th, 2025 at 12:45pm:


Garbage. No one would play any contact sport if that were the case. Players are paid good money & for most, as professional players - it's their only job.

And the game in question was actually Rugby Union not League.

I'm surprised a man of your age & worldly experience doesn't know the difference.

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Jul 29^th, 2025 at 12:45pm:


I agree.
If operating outside of the laws, real penalties apply.

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Jul 30^th, 2025 at 11:11am:


Criminal assault? FFS  Players get harsher penalties with suspensions & fines for illegal play than real criminals on the street get through the judicial system.

We have enough softcocks in the world.

Gnads wrote on Jul 30^th, 2025 at 9:49am:

That's easy. Because Australia is Alpha female/Beta male in its Leftism and 'Sport' is a Leftism thing along with Music, Maths, Medicine...
The Wallabies will always be the Beta males compared to the Alpha males of South Africa (Africa) & New Zealand (Oceania). South America is the other Beta male in Sport.
NRL's international success is against 'who'? A small bunch of countries rag tagged into holding up a Australian team that doesn't much exist beyond the importance of State of Origin and a Grand Final. NRL is a DUMB sport, each year, there's rule changes because they really have no idea.

Ha! I played my Snooker soft and slow, my Pool hard and fast. Never got to play Billy.
I played so many sports, even Netball, I was the immaculate all-rounder utility. Made State in Union. Won a B-grade Basketball title. Won a School zone Hockey title and at Indoor Cricket, Squash and a few more awards in League, Aussie Rules and 100m Sprinting.
All in all, I played for 'fun & social'. Coaches loved me and hated me, as too teammates. I was good, but I didn't care about winning. To me, Sport was just about keeping fit. Nothing else. At the most, I provided some flukey unorthodox moments for entertainment and to humiliate the opposition. Hell, I even jumped in the ring at Geales gym against the Liberty Valance (ex-pro 35 fights) with the Australian UFC champ at the time softening me up for a few rounds before that. Lost both, but loved the honour of challenging them.

Sport was fun and fitness. Nothing more.

Once more into the breech my friend.

Once more.

I hope we win

The Argies have caught onto their 'superpower' to now compete effectively against the dominating Boks and All Blacks (they really look like big yellow Taiwanese ).
They play a much faster game than the Clever Boks and Smart All Blacks (who don't like refs who are onto their sneaky rule pushes).
With the Boks and Allblacks being physically bigger. The Argies aren't chasing their weakness in comparison, they're following their strength in a much faster gameplay which as we have seen, leaves the Boks and All Blacks on the back foot by 5 metres both in forward and back plays.

As for Wallabies. A Captain is about the right character. Not about the contingency plan of having played more games than the others. Let's hope he is the right Captain material.
Now the Wallabies are STILL playing like they have since their abysmal loosing doldrums from nearly 15 BLOODY years ago!🙄

To compete with and win over the Boks and All Blacks. The secret is in how they lose all the time!
How? SA & NZ always PHYSICALLY DOMINATE OVER AUSTRALIA.
The weak Wallaby is always there to be seen. They just can't compete physically against these two and even the Brit Lions, France, etc.
We can't play a faster game like the Argies, to be competitive. We only have ONE fast player.
Schmidt has to pick and train STRONGER PLAYERS. Players who can out-muscle the Boks & All Blacks.
It's where the Wallabies have been lacking against these two for nearly 20 FRIGGIN years now!

...and if they can't find such players to fill a team (for fear of getting their heads kicked in by the AFL & NRL players). Then they need to find that niche-gimmick style that the other three don't have.
My advice?

They need to prove they are better than League and Rules - tougher, meaner, hungrier and real ALPHA MALE stuff. Looking inwards, sometimes beats the enemy from beyond the walls.

That's my answer and as always proven, I will be right.
Afterall. I got right up the Wallabies (v All Blacks) when they played at Olympic Park Melbourne, from the sideline the whole match! I purposely wore a QLD wife beater navy blue singlet and didn't stop shouting at them the entire match. Even the ref went off injured. I inspired them to play as tough as I was projecting at them🤬. Matty Burke was so revved up he gave Frank Bunce quite a few uppercuts. 

Now if I've gotta do a Chopper Reed and walk into the Wallaby change room armed and feeling dangerous to show them how much I believe in them.......

The Black Hole continues...

Wallabies spaghettified by Italy 26-19, even with aWallaby try allied from an obvious knock-on.

David Campese is right. The Selectors are incompetent and the team play like Mercenaries rather than patriots.
The karma of this is Australian born and blonde Lynagh scoring against the Wallabies .

No. You can always tube the highlights clip.
Wallabies giving away a lot of penalty kicks between the post says a lot about their performance.

Australian TV is so bad, they want people to pay for it.
We already pay for the ABC and look at how bad that has become - just a platform for bias and discriminating Leftism.
You would have thought it is the ABC's job to have televised that match for free regardless of the time frame.

The only thing worse than the abc is the wallabies losing to Italy.

Bobby. wrote on Nov 9^th, 2025 at 2:15pm:

The Left have STOLEN the ABC from the people.

Jasin wrote on Jul 31^st, 2025 at 3:59pm:


That's why they were called Rah Rah Rich Boys.

Nothing like inherited wealth & success ey?

Yes. Italy play a good game. They can beat France, Eire, Scot, Eng and Wales when the weather suits them so to speak. They have that Venice football streak in them.
They played a patient game against the Wallabies and knew they would be their own worse enemy -as always.

I agree with you Dave, as does David Campese. It's the management that needs new selection. But also, not since Eales days, has the Wallabies seemed physically up to the modern standard.

Television Australia would rather put on a LIVE NFL game from Berlin Germany last night, than the ABC doing the Wallabies v Italy.

Disgraceful.

I prefer the old traditional original version.
Remember the throat slitting Haka update?

You know the Haka is based on a Maori chief who hid from his enemies under the fat bums of his women and raised again in mocking Haka when they were gone. Based on cowardess.