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More than half your squad is either from Brisbane or plays in Brisbane. The team won't be missed (and certainly not your tax-dodging directors). The players will find a home, the remaining four teams get a slightly better squad (although to be honest I'm not exactly sure which Rebels the Reds...

So...remind me again why the Rebels should stay in Super Rugby? :cool:

Yes. This is EXACTLY what happened. The Administrator's report clearly showed the Rebels were getting more money than other teams. AND that they had exceeded the salary cap for at least three years that we know of, by more than $2 million. Criticise RA, yes - but criticise them for secretly...

RA never did "step in". They extended loans and/or advanced payments (much as World Rugby recently did for RA. The Reds also - and I know this may be hard for Rebels fans to comprehend - paid their tax bills.

When your whole business model is "give us our licence back so we can sue you and burn the whole fucking game down around your ears"...

Some history... quite a few years back the Reds settled a court case with their Perpetual Ballymore Members over access to Suncorp. (This was an old legacy thing where in the 70s you paid $3000 for perpetual (!) access to Reds matches. there was an argument over how that translated to Suncorp)...

And the Giants (and Suns) paid their tax bill. And didn't lie about it....

Or, just maybe....the directors of the Rebels who lied to everyone - including RA - should be forced to cover the costs? Which, to be honest, is what will happen with the ATO action.

Who says they lose out on money? Not having a Bledisloe in Melbourne may lose a million or so on ticket revenue, but if Queensland is paying an extra million or so?

Rebels run home: Blues in Melbourne Reds in Brisbane Chiefs in Melbourne Brumbies in Canberrrrrrrra Drua in Fiji Tell me which one of those they're going to win? They're finishing seventh at best (maybe eighth if the Drua go on a tear and maybe even ninth if the Tahs stand up and beat the Reds...

You realise the Lancaster bomber is G for George, from Australia's most famous RAAF squadron, 460. 460 is based in Canberra and the Lanc is on display at the Australian War Memorial...in Canberra.

The bit where Stooke suggests decreasing funding to the women's game and sevens is....enlightening. This is old white men shouting at clouds. A reminder that Dick Marks - part of this ridiculous putsch - was a virulent opponent of the Ballymore redevelopment, which has been the single most...

Latest pics (the Roar also released these and cheekily rendered everything orange... :) )

You can build a new stand under the MID, the question is, would the new stand (including a high-performance centre) be bigger than the old one? There's nothing stopping it from being much, much bigger, apart fro the fact that you waste money. Anything over an 11k total capacity and you lose...

"AN" Eastern Stand, not "THE" Eastern Stand is approved under the planning permissions from the State Government. (ie, its in place and the retired town planner two streets over can't appeal it". New stand would be smaller - 5k vs the current 7.5k, because the previous QRU board f***ed it up...

You've missed quite a bit. Rugby Australia have agreed to move the Olympic Sevens program to Ballymore if a similar high performance centre and stand is funded by government and built on the east.

It sat outside the terms of reference. Only venues funded by the State/Federal Government under their Olympics agreement were considered.

Release mentions a reduction in funding from RA so that's the majority of the difference ...

Reds profit result. $450k EBITDA. https://qld.rugby/news/queensland-rugby-union-posts-fifth-consecutive-profit-2024216

Remind me how that Latrobe facility - announced BEFORE Ballymore - is going? Still hasn't been built (in fact I don't think it's even been started), and meanwhile QRU are coining it in from lease revenue and events. The delay would have added $4-5 million alone in cost escalation.