Not much of a Tri Nations then is it?

Yes, and if you add flour to water it's not flour anymore is it?

But it was before it was added.

It's like fast food. The more you get out there (and fast while you're at it) the more you make.

Compare…

Or if I may geek it up a little: Sevens is to Rugby what Mario Kart is to Gran Turismo.

Rugby needs its own 20/20 discuss....

Sevens?

Rugby needs its own 20/20 discuss....

It already exists. They call it "League".

2011 RWC have a cruise ship parked in a port (floating htl) and have Fiji/Samoa/Tonga play home games in a home pool. Big hits or what – total TV highlights and what a draw card for the Rugby world to have…

One of the plans for expanding the Super 12 seems to have been the principle "more of a good thing is bloody excellent". We aren't convinced this was sound thinking.

Damn straight. Is anyone else sick of the self serving media types that claimed the crowds and audience figures for…

I haven't come across any major emotional headcases out there

Tune into radio sport talkback for all your crazed sports fan needs. It really is the gateway into another world. A demented, illogical world where Troy Flavell would have single-handedly won the cup, and Richie McCaw is an over-rated showpony.

You know, apart from a few rather pathetic letters to the editor, I haven't come across any major emotional headcases out there and I'm currently travelling in the deep South – a region you'd think would be amongst the most vociferous.

It seems to be the MSM who keep bleating…

That post was going so well until you started comparing the pulling power of S14 “stars” with that of David Beckham :)

heh yeah, I should put "only David Beckham"

How does that little ditty from Blam Blam Blam go again?

I could have added that they prevented us from picking our Maori players to tour until the 1960s and that's why they kept winning. (and that the NZRU acceded to their demands)

Not to mention – cough – the reffing.

First tour I ever really followed was the '76 one…

It seems to be the MSM who keep bleating on about it all and the meltdowns happening around us...er, where exactly?

The Heathrow Hilton.

...we'd like to suggest to those insanely angry New Zealanders out there that they man up to this loss a little more...

You know, apart from a few rather pathetic letters to the editor, I haven't come across any major emotional headcases out there and I'm currently travelling in the…

That post was going so well until you started comparing the pulling power of S14 “stars” with that of David Beckham :)

I report done before the revamp of the NPC showed that spectators like to see a good game but numbers are more heavily influenced by specific "star" players. I mean just look…

To me the question is – could a 18 team, two pool Air New Zealand Cup, with the All Blacks playing and up to four Australian teams & a Pacific Islands Barbarians, a top five play off...

Well I'll stop ya there, you're on the right track though. But you can't…

Anyway there is no stopping unions scheduling an extra Bledisloe etc outside the 4N.

I think that would be a good addition to the plan we outlined.

The “product” (Pay TV) must have something EVERY year. That way they keep the NRL honest.

And that's what the tour idea offers.…

One of the things I’ve liked about this RWC (the best ever IMHO) is that with the teams developing (or going backwards in a couple of cases) you get to know the teams and their players,…

Big tours every 8-10 years aren’t sustainable these days.

The “product” (Pay TV) must have something EVERY year. That way they keep the NRL honest.

No we'd get moderate events each year against differing opposiotion, punctuated by a RWC every four years. What we wouldn't get is the f##king Boks…

the days when people were just genuinely bloody excited about a rugby tour

That was our premise. These days there's just so, much, bloody, rugby.

It's actually, forgive me for saying it, becoming a little boring.

A tour would be like the circus coming to town! Remember how great that…

The “product” (Pay TV) must have something EVERY year. That way they keep the NRL honest.

Er ... these would be the Apartheid years, right?

Your point IO?

I could have added that they prevented us from picking our Maori players to tour until the 1960s and that's why they kept winning. (and that the NZRU acceded to their demands)

In the olden days NZ would tour SA every 8-10 years, and vice versa. Combine that with the fact that bastards kept winning is what made them the great enemy.

Exactly. Reading Warwick Roger's Old Heroes, I was really nostalgic (if you can be nostalgic about days you weren't technically…

For me, I'd rather…

This past Tuesday one of the Dropkicks was woken by his partner, who found him sleeping in their garden, at 9pm.

Could have been worse. Could have been 9am.

Another $33,000 night on the town was it?

Did you manage to avoid falling through any windscreens?

Graeme Henry might be looking for work...

The Blues have never won the Super tournament without him you know ...

One of the things we've been robbed of over recent years is the huge sense of occasion big games used to have.

This idea would restore some of that.

I think I speak for the majority of Blues supporters in saying: Yes! Yes! Yes!

We'll have that Gatland bloke, thanks. Hell, we'll have Pat Lam…

This past Tuesday one of the Dropkicks was woken by his partner, who found him sleeping in their garden, at 9pm.

Could have been worse. Could have been 9am.

Saturday night, lads?

Hmmm... Someone keeps sending us this whisky you see. The trouble is that it's delicious, and we keep drinking it.

This past Tuesday one of the Dropkicks was woken by his partner, who found him sleeping in their garden, at 9pm.

Pending forgiveness, you've got a deal.

Where that first game was considered an upset, the win against Scotland was not.

That's for sure!

Scotland haven't beaten Argentina since 1990. Argentina have now won 6 or 7 straight over them.

On the downside for Argentina this weekend they are 0-11 v South Africa.

Good lateral thinking from the Dropkicks, someone (I'm looking at you IRB) buy them a beer

I quite agree. Saturday night, lads?