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Geez we finally get the national comp we've been demanding for years and you want to turn it into a BBL style night out.

The whole high performance centre thing is great but i don't want to see the stands and hill bulldozed. I genuinely enjoy going to ballymore much more than Suncorp because of the traditional feel of the ground and the ease of standing on the hill with mates compared to all seaters. Touch up the...

No allowing players to go overseas means the ARU have greater flexibility in how much money they offer to who. If a player demands more than the ARU deems is appropriate for a player of his quality, then they can just say to him "If you want that money, then pack your life up and move to...

Honestly don't see players going overseas as a bad thing tbh. What it means is that the ARU don't have to pay their salaries anymore when they are struggling to even match world market rate. The ARU only care about the National team doing well anyway so if they were still available all is good...

The reds and waratahs brand killed their history and tradition the second they started calling themselves as such and discarded the traditional names of QLD and NSW. They aren't rep teams.

Well at least this is still around now sanzar has finally shown they've lost it. I'd rather stand on the hill at ballymore anyway than a half empty all seater.

Who knows, most on here might die of old age before Sanzar ever suggest any sensible idea.

Asia and the Americas should have been left to keep building on their own. Argentina is now not going to get the professional national league they need off the ground when funds are diverted away. Japan's Top League on the other hand might still be in the grip of the big companies but they could...

This is a disaster for anyone but South Africa, way to make Super Rugby even more irrelevant to the Australian Public. Super Rugby is already struggling because people don't care enough to get excited about some plastic franchise from South Africa coming over, who is going to care about some Argentina or...

Any name can be marketed successfully if you throw enough cash behind it, again this doesn't make it a good name but rather shows how good their administrators are. Rugby here doesn't have the resources that American or English teams have. It might surprise you that You can have a good name...

So I point out that it's a daft name and the response is "well it's ok because there are other teams that have stupid names picked by thick marketing undergraduates" Just because other teams have form for stupid names doesn't mean Australia has to follow them.

It's already a mess. Victoria and WA hardly have the clubs to step up to such a competition while NSW does. All the "rebrand" does is weaken the pro rugby brand in these states rather than make an effort to strengthen it. At least in Victoria, more people would the rebels in the NRC than yet...

Guess we better shut down that old curry cup then, those sharks, bulls, lions and cheetahs that play in it must be getting on sanzars nerve

I know that it's the name of the feeder team and maybe a couple of diehards will as well, the rest of the state and a large amount of rebel support won't and will agree in thinking its a stupid name. There would have been nothing wrong in just continuing the rebels brand into the NRC. I also...

Extremely disappointed by this. The teams are all just a giant mess of club affiliations linked together with shit names and the the non nsw/Qld teams just have shit names and weak links to the super rugby sides that have already developed the local connections to fans and clubs. It should...

What's wrong wth just leaving it as Brisbane city ffs. Being the city team playing out of ballymore is a strong identity in itself, no need for some daft name or animal to be latched on straight away.

Really don't get the point of this game. We play NZ enough in the rugby championship and it does zero favours to australian rugby to see their national team get flogged three times a year nor see them get out supported (again) at home when we host it twice. It would be much more interesting...

atmosphere of this game shits on anything i've heard for a decade in australia

Honestly feel that the extra game australia have against NZ is overkill, one home and one away in the RC feels like plenty against the blackness. Do any two countries play each other as much as they do in Rugby?

When it comes to stadium selection, The ARU always chase the dollar even if it means they look silly when they fail to fill it. i honestly think they are overestimating the current attraction of the national team when they book these huge AFL stadiums instead of more suitable rectangular...