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Talatiana the dark horse breakout player for mine. Was awesome at the u20's but got sidelined with injury last season.

He looks like he's carrying a number of injuries and is overweight. Probably needs to be on full time rehab, diet & cardio for a few months next year.

Fuck I wish Lolesio would run onto the ball. Him standing still and shovelling the ball adds absolutely nothing to our attack.

People will turn on the coaches for this but the reality is the quality of your coach only makes a +/- 10% difference over your base. If teams are close to evenly matched that can make all the difference, but the reality is our base is at least 60% worse than the All Black's.

Might be the people you're talking to. Watched it with a bunch of casual sports fans, was a lot of fun.

I refer you to the Kiwi expats part of my comment.

There's nothing to recommend, it's fucked. Professional rugby in Aus is a terminally ill patient dying a slow, slow death. If forced I would suggest going to everyone on the AFR rich list and literally begging them for a 10 yr investment in a domestic league. I would have this league be...

This is Rugby Australia's original sin. From the start parochial state administrators have had too much influence over the national direction of the game. There's no no way to change this unless an entirely 3rd party pops up to create a professional league outside the constraints of the NSWRU...

This is a fair point. Rugby Australia (and the state unions) have somehow managed to take the game backwards despite the improving international context. Truly impressive levels of incompetence.

That's going to happen regardless. Rugby Union needs some radical overhauls to not be dead in the water inside 15 yrs.

I fail to see what point you're trying to make

No they don't. Only kiwis expats and a quickly aging group of boomer blazers from Randwick care about NZ super teams. The rest of Australia wouldn't be able to point at Christchurch on a map.

There are no options - professional rugby in Australia is currently in the middle of a death spiral. We can't stick with Super because it's a terrible product and we don't have enough upfront capital to go with domestic, which would be the better option long term.

A lot of people seem to think the Rebels dying will bolster the other Super Rigby teams. It won't. Short term a few players will go to other super teams, more will go overseas. Longer term, the talent pathway in Melbourne which has produced an increasing number of Wallabies (including for...

Fuck

Perhaps my Rebels bias talking, but Leota is a better choice in all 3 of those positions imo.

Now Leota gone, christ

A line up of McDermott, Kerr-Barlow and White/Lonergan at 9 looks pretty tasty.

This was inevitable, money talks. We now need to deal with to the reality that our domestic footy is set to become a feeder for moneyed foreign teams just like soccer, basketball and basically every sport that isn't League or AFL. Our ability to adapt to this situation early will determine if...