Ball ‘n’ all

@OBBY001 Junk Yard Dog has been putting in some strong recent form.

Cully’s Oz Super Rugby team of the week. 5 Brumbies, 5 Reds, 4 Force & 1 Tahs smh.com.au/sport/rugby-un…

@HuwTindall Valid rationale

If the ball came off Burey's chest surely it's not a knock on? #FORvRED

Faessler used to be picked for his set piece… #FORvRED

BPA is the form hooker from the Aus contenders? #Wallabies #FORvRED

@MarkHindle15 @wallabies @Reds_Rugby @westernforce Williams is no starting wallaby in the current lineup

#FORvRED For me the most interesting will be the battle between the captains (Wilson v Williams) and potentially who will be in charge of the @wallabies at #RWC2027. I think Williams has stronger and more calm leadership qualities. We’ll see. @Reds_Rugby @westernforce

@JEChalmers You’ll tell us how much yours cost and overshoot it by 200%

Angus Taylor can’t tell us how much his new tax policy costs or how he’ll pay for it. The speech didn’t survive an hour. An absolute train wreck. #auspol #ausecon

@peter_tulip Is this satire? Thats not even the cost of a decent concrete slab

The budget housing announcement wins in presentational terms: 1) It recognises that the solution is extra supply -- not counterproductive demand subsidies. 2) It puts decent money behind the Commonwealth's message. This is serious.

This is good. $2b for 65,000 homes = $31k a home. That is a bigger bang for the buck than other Commonwealth policies. And it's on message.

@AlisterHarrow The more concerning question, who would vote for him?

This Indian man is here on a three year student visa and was just elected to be a member of the Scottish Parlament. Why on earth is this allowed?

@SandraEckersley @AshEss999 @QdenisT ‘No exceptions?’ So you’d still support an Australian citizen regardless of their lunatic ideologies or crimes. Daft. Very, very daft.

@AshEss999 @QdenisT I support Australian citizens. No exceptions.

So OFFENSIVE hearing the grotesque Pauline Hanson attack the children of the so called ‘ISIS brides’ as terrorists. Hanson really epitomizes the ugly Australian and the fact her hate resonates with so many is absolutely shameful. #auspol

@kinson88 @Reds_Rugby @StanSportAU @StanSportRugby Tell us your thoughts 😉

Looking at ‘X’/Twitter… LOTS of judgement on the officials post @Reds_Rugby vs Chiefs… | @StanSportAU @StanSportRugby

@plesbilongmi @ChristypDoran Clinches shouldn’t be an argument. Gordon is about the 5th in line. Gordon has never played in a winning team, strange coincidence

@ChristypDoran Good call. Plus Carter Gordon, despite solid performances by Donno, is easily the best 10 going. Can't afford NOT to have his incomparable pass setting that Wallaby backline alight. Defence just fearsome. Might mean Lonergan's goalkicking clinches him the 9 jersey over Gordon.

I’m having Treyvon Pritchard in my wider Wallabies squad in 2026. He can make the World Cup - and make an impact.

What was worse, the Conrad Sewell halftime show or the ref? #REDvCHI

@MandaFSC @Ausbobsmit He couldn’t recognise the journo as an Australian but some will suggest he’s just as Australian as anyone else 🙄

@Ausbobsmit Mohammad looks like the quintessential Australian of old. I bet he moves back to Bankstown and becomes a contributing member of society 😳

Here's another ISIS muslim wanting to return. Bankstown of course Brainwashed barbaric cult.

@Sambruce86 Do any Sydney pundits watch the reds? There’s a bloke called Filipo that’s been killing it all year. Not just 1 game.

The form winger in Aussie rugby. Physical, superb under the high ball, and can finish. Everything you want in an outside back. Good business.

@NotRobSimmons @TommyTudehope More than culture, look at the players they have let go in recent years and kept or brought in others by comparison. Donaldson vs Creighton, Pietsch vs Potter, Williams v Philip/ Amatosero/ Blyth, Lancaster v Potter, Robertson has been better than Gordon

@TommyTudehope I want to agree with u and I’ve been very vocal about McKellars shortfalls, but I don’t want him out, yet. The Scott-Young article in the SMH the other week shows what McKellar is trying to do. He needs 2 more years IMO. A coaching change won’t fix the Tahs culture problems, yet

McKellar OUT.

@NotRobSimmons Isaac Henry

Australian inside centres 1. Ikitau 2. Absolute daylight 3. Feliuai …….. 47. Paisami #REDvBRU

@HuwTindall @NotRobSimmons The Waratahs can’t sign a 10 and they are letting him go…

@Ball_n_all @NotRobSimmons Bit tough! He's off to make big $ in France next year so can't be that bad.

6:2 again but the reserve front row getting the start now. Bit more size. Expecting the Saders to try and out muscle them. Why Jorgo at 15 and Harvey on the wing though? Seems unnecessary switch.

@antloewenstein You mean this Amy Remeikis?? afr.com/life-and-luxur…

One Nation is Australia’s most prominent far-right political party, led for decades by leader Pauline Hanson. It’s akin to Reform UK and the Republicans under Trump. Think anti-multiculturalism, anti-Islam, pro-Israel and pro US wars, claiming to speak for the forgotten people while being funded by fossil fuel billionaires. I’m excited to be launching a 3-part podcast series, starring tomorrow, 22 April, in conversation with the brilliant political journalist @AmyRemeikis. Search for The Antony Loewenstein Podcast. We go deep. Over 3 episodes. Looking back at One Nation’s beginnings in the late 1990s and the vital role played, then and now, by the mainstream media in boosting Hanson and her ideas. It’ll be available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. This great trailer was made by @lemzakharia and Elizabeth. Series produced by Lena Helou + @lemzakharia. This is independent journalism and needs your support: bit.ly/m/theantonyloe…

@NotRobSimmons @HuwTindall He’s barely a club player

@HuwTindall This persistence with Creighton at 12 just blows my mind. Debz is a slow and methodical 10, always has been. I don’t think that’s a bad thing if you have a 12 that can actually support him (think an Ikitau at the Brums), but Creighton isn’t a 12. He’s barely a 10.

@Observer90210 @kinson88 @JWDrennan @StanSportAU @StanSportRugby @wwos Tahs home crowds haven’t been great. Although doesn’t mean they would be bad for Super Round

@kinson88 @JWDrennan @StanSportAU @StanSportRugby @wwos Can Sydney host next years Super Round? Also I hope to see NSW roll out Lomax and Sualli first tho by next week at a presser to build momentum for their clash next Friday. #Tahs. Get marketing!!

BIG DEBUT on #InsideLine today… @JWDrennan makes his first appearance, charging off the back fence! Plenty to talk about with RA’s AGM today | @StanSportAU @StanSportRugby @wwos