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Any idea what the issue is? 2+ grades worth of players don't disappear without cause.

There are probably physiological limits to what a body that size can handle, regardless of fitness. Where that limit is probably varies with genetics, age, and injury history. It's reasonable to put him on a load management plan that reduces his minutes. But it's also reasonable to question if...

No one appears to have blinked and cancelled saturday's trials yet.

This place could spend the next two weeks constructing hypothetical family trees and it would still be less of an echo chamber than the average test lunch.

Excluding Cheika, are there any proven international coaches available? If we decide to take a risk, I wouldn't hate the idea of seeing if Felix Jones is interested in taking a role with us.

I'd add that part of said charm is that most have careers they're invested in. No one with something to lose is going to threaten to stab you in the car park over a mistimed tackle or hard ruck cleanout.

It does feel as though rugby leans on community goodwill to a larger degree than other sporting endeavors.

Pretend Werchon is a generational player that plays 100% of his games for Wests and is a marketing phenom that's going to be the face of Brisbane rugby for the next decade or more. Imagine if Wests after losing the Grand Final sent Werchon to another club in exchange for a 32 year old...

9s always feels a bit undifferentiated from the full format of league since it only has 13 to begin with

Great example of something that's probably not good for society but might have a second order effect benefiting rugby.

That's the ideal outcome from the coach/club's perspective, but not from the player's perspective. "Best" is also sometimes subjective. For a hypothetical example if you're brought in with an aim to play as a running fullback and the coach decides he'd rather have a distributor at 15 and...

There's degrees to it. This forum is mostly anonymous and full of older reasonable people (some allowances for Blues fans). Instagram or Tiktok are seem by a lot of people as extensions of themselves so criticism there is taken quite personally.

careful or Rhian Stowers's dad will come back and post 6 paragraphs about the MLR

Depends whether the coach is making promises he can't keep regarding position or it's only coming from the player end.

There's not necessarily any one entity to point blame toward and I'm sure the vast majority is justifiable expense. But that dollar figure is at odds with a goal of growing rugby.

I'd have greyhounds running around every field and a greenhouse full of marijuana next to every clubhouse if it meant we could bring that cost down

and the crazy part is that Perth is basically Brisbane with better urban planing and world class beaches, it's just far from any other major cities.

easy to pick on Brothers since they're at the top of the list, but $600 to play what's essentially social footy for 99% of the club is fucked

Even then you'd be a behind the eight ball compared to 5 star, 4 star, and 3 star recruits that have been playing for years and attending Elite 11 or position group equivalent camps.

Port Moresby is a different level of dodgy though even if you're in a gated compound with security most of the time. That entire venture has an expiration date on it. Half the NRL can't stay out of misadventure in Australia, which is probably one of the safest countries in the world.