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formerflanker

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Ken Catchpole (46)
re more kids from WA playing for the Force and are more kids from Victoria playing for the Rebels?
Why wasn't the same asked about the Brumbies?
All of our nit-picking comes from the ARU's secrecy about its financial involvements in each state, especially Victoria and WA.
 
Quick Hands

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David Wilson (68)
There's a specific thread for ideas for the NRC - perhaps that chat should go there.

Over on the schools forum, we've quarantined scholarships into it's own thread so it doesn't derail discussions. I think it' time we had a separate thread for anyone who wishes to vent against the Shute Shield - FFS, the same small group of 4 or 5 people manage to get almost any discussion on Australian rugby back to a rant against the Shute Shield.

Guys, we get that you don't like it, we get that you think it's responsible for all the woes that the game faces, we get that it gives you something to hate. By all means start a thread and go for your lives.
 
Slim 293

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Stirling Mortlock (74)
formerflanker said:
re more kids from WA playing for the Force and are more kids from Victoria playing for the Rebels?
Why wasn't the same asked about the Brumbies?
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It was probably asked of the Force and Rebels because they were the two expansion teams from non-rugby playing catchments, and at the time of their introduction the number of players represented from those areas would've been quite minimal..........

The same wouldn't have been asked about the Brumbies because they obviously already had a history of bringing local players into Super Rugby, and were quite well represented at the beginning.
 
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I believe this clubland tangent started when Wamberal said the Shute Shield beats the NRC hands down, and those from cities other then Sydney who are already feeling vilified against took offence.
 
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formerflanker

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Ken Catchpole (46)
Slim 293 said:
It was probably asked of the Force and Rebels because they were the two expansion teams from non-rugby playing catchments, and at the time of their introduction the number of players represented from those areas would've been quite minimal....

The same wouldn't have been asked about the Brumbies because they obviously already had a history of bringing local players into Super Rugby, and were quite well represented at the beginning.
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You are right.
Behind my questioning of the ARU's statement is my frustration at not knowing what each franchise was expected to generate in return for ARU funding.
Every Super team in Oz has a different history and financial situation, but the ARU's blithe PR releases don't help supporters understand what is going on.
 
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Alan Cameron (40)
This thread is a tad over 6 weeks old, has 203 pages of posts about 33 pages a week.

Close to 2k views per day.

Arguably the biggest thread in years, and it almost totally negative. A sign of the times maybe.
 
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John Hipwell (52)
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This thread is a tad over 6 weeks old, has 203 pages of posts about 33 pages a week.

Close to 2k views per day.

Arguably the biggest thread in years, and it almost totally negative. A sign of the times maybe.
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Ranked 7th of all time by replies but hardly rates a mention for views.

Only about another 3450 posts to take the number one spot.
 
Brumby Runner

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David Wilson (68)
Quick Hands said:
There's a specific thread for ideas for the NRC - perhaps that chat should go there.

Over on the schools forum, we've quarantined scholarships into it's own thread so it doesn't derail discussions. I think it' time we had a separate thread for anyone who wishes to vent against the Shute Shield - FFS, the same small group of 4 or 5 people manage to get almost any discussion on Australian rugby back to a rant against the Shute Shield.

Guys, we get that you don't like it, we get that you think it's responsible for all the woes that the game faces, we get that it gives you something to hate. By all means start a thread and go for your lives.
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QH, I think you may well be right about the repeated reaction to the SS by some, but from my reading of the thread it was the anti-Super Rugby few who initially introduced the SS as an alternative to the Super Rugby competition. I think the SS critics have every right to respond to those sorts of comments.
 
Slim 293

Slim 293

Stirling Mortlock (74)
half said:
This thread is a tad over 6 weeks old, has 203 pages of posts about 33 pages a week.

Close to 2k views per day.

Arguably the biggest thread in years, and it almost totally negative. A sign of the times maybe.
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It's not surprising when a couple of the thread's biggest contributors wallow in these kinds of dramas.............
 
Gnostic

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Mark Ella (57)
Slim 293 said:
It's not surprising when a couple of the thread's biggest contributors wallow in these kinds of dramas.....
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If people like yourself Slim had listened then things like this would be avoidable, because by listening we as fans may have been able to drive more accountability and better outcomes. Wallow, no, hope for and try and bring some actual thought to the process and point out what is likely to happen. Go back 5 years or more and these outcomes were posted here.

I love the game at least as much as you slim I am just not a blindly acquiescent to management. You should just frolic around happily that the mighty Brumbies are leading the conference and will be in the finals for the third year and are so clearly the best Australian side. :rolleyes:
 
Slim 293

Slim 293

Stirling Mortlock (74)
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You should just frolic around happily that the mighty Brumbies are leading the conference and will be in the finals for the third year and are so clearly the best Australian side. :rolleyes:
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RedsHappy

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Tony Shaw (54)
Wayne Smith in today's The Australian in a long piece calls for 'root and branch reform' of the ARU as being essential after the latest 'culling' fiasco.

States that the seemingly binding agreement to grant the Force's survival rights through 2020 was shown to neither SANZAAR or (on a timely basis) the ARU board.

This is heavy stuff from the typically timid and deferential (to the ARU) Smith.
 
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