Do you want Ben back?

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Originally Posted by Pharaoh

Welcome Rugby Pike. Do you wear jersey 11 or are you 11 years old?

Pleased to see you on board.

If you're a Pom - how about that time wasting bit in the first cricket test?

If you're a Kiwi - I feel sorry for you, bro.

If you're an Aussie - get off. This is my board. My board. Fuck you! Get Off!

Na man it's all good.

I made myself laugh though - so that was great. Almost like an orgasm.

But with all those numbers fucking with my skull I can't think of sexy bitches so can we at least make a cap thread or something?

Just keep the cap numbers in their own thread so they don't bother any regular numbers or letters anytime soon.

I wore jersey #11 for basketball and when I first started playing rugby. I am the rare American rugby player. Once I figured out wtf I was doing I usually played anywhere 6 to 10. I am generally an undersized loose forward, oversized scrum-half, or an overly aggressive fly-half.

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Originally Posted by rugbypike#11

I wore jersey #11 for basketball and when I first started playing rugby. I am the rare American rugby player. Once I figured out wtf I was doing I usually played anywhere 6 to 10. I am generally an undersized loose forward, oversized scrum-half, or an overly aggressive fly-half.

Rugby needs to be popular in the US asap just so we can hear Al Michaels commenting on a player's strong fly-half.

Rugby needs to be popular in the US asap just so I can finally watch it on TV more than 3 times a year.

Rugby is a tough, tough game, boys.

I'm surprised to see a US rugby player posting on here.

Question Time: Who do you guys play against? Is there a local comp? Rec comp? How serious are you guys about the game.

And FWIW I am not a rugby fan. Too much stopping and starting

I'm in semi-retirement. I pick up a match here and there but I'm a law student so I don't have time to really commit to a club. I played for a RSL Club before grad school. Theoretically, this is a grouping of the best clubs in the US but there are some Division 1 Men's Clubs that can hang with any RSL club. Our RSL side was very serious and approached matches as if we were playing professionally. Our club also had a developmental (B-Side) and social side which was less serious. Sometimes the B-Side traveled with the Super League side but sometimes they just played lesser regional clubs.

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I don't want him back, but I'd take him if we were going into the season with what we have right now.

As I remember it, Ben was garbage in the playoffs for the Cavs. Maybe I remember it wrong. In any event, I salute what he did when he was here but I don't want that broken down diva back on the pistons bench.

he was coming back off a gruesomely broken leg...I'm pretty sure it restricted his activity a tad.

Ben also never really got to play his natural C position in Cleveland....he was stuck playing PF, normally against jumpshooters.

During the 53 games he started, he averaged about 7 rebounds, 1 block and 1 steal, in only 23 minutes per game, playing out of position.

As recently as 2 years ago, he was a 10+rebound and 2+ block player for Chicago, the last place he was given a chance to play center.

The idea that ben has completely lost his skills is way, way overblown. If you put him in the middle, he will continue to rebound and block shots.

Does Kuester want him here?

Kuester's been with him for the past couple years... might know something that we don't that's relevant.