O'Connor hints at Force return

[SNOB]

A left-field suggestion perhaps? Next year isn't a world cup year, how about a season overseas in the Top 14 with Toulouse, Toulon or Clermont? There're guys over there who are befitting from the experience, Brock James, Matt Giteau, Napolioni Nalaga et al, maybe it would be good for him. Might be good for Kurtley Beale as well.

And the beer is cheaper than Perth.

[jargan83]

And the beer is cheaper than Perth.

The beer is cheaper anywhere other then Perth

[doobie69]

The beer is cheaper anywhere other then Perth

Even here where the cost of a night out with a curry, a woman and a taxi home instantly doubles with a few beers. Margaret Thatcher would never have allowed beer to be that expensive

[chibi]

And the beer is cheaper than Perth.

OK, maybe not Beale then!

[DinkyDi]

Cant see KB being a beer man - Vodka Redbull maybe.... is the Vodka cheaper?

[The InnFORCEr]

I'd say Vodka Cranberry

[DinkyDi]

[BeeJay]

On another note, if JOC was to return to the - could he no longer be referred to as Judas, and would we, on his second coming, refer to him as Jesus?

JOC - Jesus of Claremont.....

[zimeric]

He's a smoker? You are joking?
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no im not

[wholetruth]

He's not

[Alison]

He's not

It's beyond comprehension. Should be a no brainer for a professional, 21st century sportsman.

[Basha69]

Seriously people so what if he smokes!! Its his choice, i agree not a very good choice but hey. When it affects his performance then it will be his problem and something he has to live with. I have my own business and have no say over the social habits of my employees. Serge Blanco was a heavy smoker (reportedly 40 a day) and a bloody great rugby player!!!!

[GAFFA]

Seriously people so what if he smokes!! Its his choice, i agree not a very good choice but hey. When it affects his performance then it will be his problem and something he has to live with. I have my own business and have no say over the social habits of my employees. Serge Blanco was a heavy smoker (reportedly 40 a day) and a bloody great rugby player!!!!

BOD was untill a couple of years ago. Not a bad rugby player
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[stejwill]

Seriously people so what if he smokes!! Its his choice, i agree not a very good choice but hey. When it affects his performance then it will be his problem and something he has to live with. I have my own business and have no say over the social habits of my employees. Serge Blanco was a heavy smoker (reportedly 40 a day) and a bloody great rugby player!!!!

He's a role model, like it or not. That's not a good example to set. He's also a Swisse spokesperson and I doubt they'd be too happy having an health product associated with him. Blanco was an amateur in the late 1980s. He's no comparison.
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[Basha69]

And so many of the finest sportsmen - Johan Cruyff, Diego Maradona, Eddie Merckx, Keke Rosberg, James Hunt, Ian Botham, Shane Warne - have been committed puffers. Bobby Charlton smoked at half-time in the World Cup final; Serge Blanco put away 40 per day while winning two rugby grand slams with France. In the past 18 months, footballer Dimitar Berbatov, tennis player David Ferrer and champion jockey Seb Sanders have all come out (or been outed) as smokers. 'To some extent you can overcome smoking's adverse effects by heavy training,' says Professor Martin Jarvis, a clinical psychologist at UCL who is an expert on smoking. 'The nasty things from tobacco smoke are not going to impact immediately on your capacity to run, jump and so on. They will accumulate over time, though, and creep up one day.' It happened to Cruyff - he smoked constantly as a player and a manager, until a double heart bypass in 1991.

It is in the short term that the effects of cigarettes on athletic performance are harder to assess. 'A sportsperson highly reliant on their fitness would clearly be stupid to smoke,' says Dr Keith Prowse, chairman of the British Lung Foundation. 'But in the short term, smoking won't do much beyond irritate the nose and throat.' According to Jarvis, there might even be - gulp - a benefit. 'Nicotine is a psychomotive stimulant, in the same group of drugs as amphetamines,' he says. 'So a cigarette could potentially enhance performance in "explosive" events like sprinting.'