Unretired Stuart Hogg set to play his first match in 17 months

I said it Nick’s and other articles, I’m not sure about the fixed nature of matchups in these opening rounds. For instance, I would be interested in seeing an improved ranking/prediction/reflection ladder to what we had last year, were some author here game so rejigged list of teams purely based of ‘who had played who’ so far in the competition. It was designed to analyze the ladder and better predict what the real order would be after the full round robin had completed. It needed some improvement, like factoring in historical data as well, as it was a bit skiwif, but it is the sort of thing that would give a better depiction of what sort of contests weve had so far, because just using my intuition, the matchups have been very ‘level appropriate’ so far, and were jet to get the other end of the spectrum, season ranked bottom sides v top sides etc.

Healy would do it too. I remember he had his roller skates on versus Dan Cole and then stamped on Cole’s ankle in a ruck. 👍

Back to comment more later. Still dry here in Toowoomba, so out to finish last touches to home defences, before Cyclone Alfred really affects us. Gold Coast with over 200 mm rain in some places. Currently looks like we get rain but not bad winds.