It was just a NSW ploy to get some more Randwick second-graders into the Australian team. It now must be a record. Last weekend the Moree Bulls achieved their 53rd straight victory when they downed Gunnedah in Gunnedah. The Bulls were obviously helped by opposition coach Tim Gavin resisting the temptation to put on the boots. The only other team to compare was the Kariong Wanderers on the Central Coast, who achieved a similar winning streak between 1991-94.
Referees are under pressure all over the Southern Hemisphere.
Referee assaults take different forms. Hopefully the club will kick this dill out. It appears that Duncan McRae, who left the Waratah fold after differences with some members of the NSW fraternity a few years ago, will again shortly be sighted in the State colours, possibly as early as the Lions encounter. John Connolly, Australian rugby's poor-man version of Mel Gibson, has done it again. Only a few weeks after the former Queensland and current Stade Francais coach was sighted at the Cannes Film Festival in the company of Nicole Kidman, Knuckles has now had his photograph taken with Anna Kournikova at the French Open.