I have not posted for a long time but still read often. The usual comments have been made. Tinkering around the edges will do nothing.
1.Terminate all professional systems in this country. Everything to do with professional rugby in this country is a failure. Two Super Rugby titles and next to nothing else. Flash in the pan wins then nothing. Part of the issue is contracting players just so League won't get them. I personally know two young blokes in the "professional" system now. Neither of them have played a full game at 1st grade club level. A season of 7s is not 15s. Both have contracts with Super sides. They are great young men and very good players at 18 years old. Are they anywhere near a finished product - No where near it. How many times have people here said that there is no time at Super Level to train skills - well in that case unfinished players cannot be contracted.
2. Time to do away with RA and the state Unions. Lets start again - and derail the gravy train and restructure from the ground up with actual perfomance the metric to test & assess. Not a Banker or Lawyers assessment which basically amounts to what we can strip from the game for ourselves.
3. All contracts in this country at National level must be incentives and selection based only. The massive up front contracts must end. People like Hooper, Tupou and now Suallii, zero results and no return on investment and worse than that zero improvement in terms of skill execution. If they will not stay on such contracts, fine goodbye. Australian Rugby does not have the funds.
PS - If it comes out that Jones was fielding calls to go elsewhere. Send him and sue him for breach of contract.