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Imagine if the NRC was just the 5 Super franchises and Fiji for the next 3 years though. It enables Rebels/Force to maintain professional status once cut from next years competition. It keeps our professional players. Players are guaranteed a certain amount of Super Rugby revenue, and the ARU...

That's why I like a full H&A NRC season with 5 Soop franchises & Fiji effective immediately with expansion on the cards post 2020. The model enables you to skip straight to a fully professional domestic competition with World Rugby funding Fiji travel, wages & the professional infrastructure...

Hey WCR, replying to a few of your posts from the 2017 crowd & Tv ratings thread regarding the NRC so as to not go off topic in my reply. I agree with you that the NRC should really be the Super Franchises with their IP & names being the same. I also think that the NRC should just be the 5...

The worst thing about this whole ordeal is that the ARU's ballpark financial figures regarding the viability of going it alone in Australia are probably now equal to what we will expect from Super Rugby come 2020. Make no mistake, Super Rugby crowds will struggle to pass 10,000 next year in...

I'm worried for Higgers in the Gold Jersey. The last time he played for the Wallabies under Cheika he was hooked halfway through a game for seagulling in the tram tracks. 1 months later Chieka changes game plans and plays Hooper & Fardy as default winger 3/4'ers. Higgers would have been a...

Hahahahahahaha. Comedic gold. By all means, let Victoria rue the day that the British & Irish Lions play their tests in Perth, Brisbane & Sydney.

Except the True Rugby people in Perth that will have 1 Professional Ruby match in Perth to watch a year. We're about to alienate enough "True Rugby" Australians for this fixture to be considered an away match for the next 20 years.

I know. I played in it. I was a 10 year junior. Come U16's, the club season splits into 3 seasons. Pre, Mid & Post-season. Mid season literally runs during the GPS & AIC competitions because clubs can't field teams otherwise due to lads playing 1st XV. As such, many kids don't bother playing...

Considering the Waratah's took over 20 years to win a piece of silverware, don't you think it's fair you give the rest that chance?

It's a self-full-filling prophecy though Reg. The longer the ARU does nothing about the "silvertail" aspect of the game, where club rugby is rendered irrelevant once you hit 15 or 16 because School Rugby - we're destined for more of the same: A poor following with an elitist tag preventing...

Groundswell support is the only way to get your voice heard when the dictators are 10 floors above in their Ivory tower. If they hold the vote, it's their job to listen to their constituents. We need names, phone numbers & email addresses of ALL Vote holders. And to publish these ONLINE...

I'm glad I'm not the only one that read it like that. Does NZ really think they can sustain Super Rugby by flying over Australia to South Africa every second week? IMO the future of Super Rugby is in the Champions Cup format (5 pools of 4 teams) with teams from NPC, Currie Cup, NRC, J-League...

Fuck NZ. Seriously, they don't care about anyone, or anything else but their AIG's. We shouldn't give 1 iota about anything bar the Wallabies. Cutting the Wallaby player base by 20% won't help the Wallabies gain competitiveness. Not when there's as many Aussies contracted overseas as there...

I think Stiles called out these two in particular because they're meant to be "senior players". You're put on the field to make a difference and your involvements gift turnovers? These two blokes were Wallaby tourists 5 months ago! One would think that after being dropped to to the bench...

I couldn't agree more! I don't think Stiles is the one to get into the habit of blaming squads. His answers in previous press conferences have been extraordinary in the golden age of cliche's! Wayne Bennett publicly castrated Jordan Kahu in a presser over the weekend. I don't have any...

Unfortunately, my thoughts on Frisby are entirely based on his performances on the Rugby field along with what I've seen when he's been out on the town in Brisbane at an institution rhyming with every day of the week. There's a reason he got his nickname.... and yes, it's exactly what you...

I disagree Redshappy. Ready & Frisby have been nothing but wet socks this year. Their on-field efforts have been particularly disappointing when you consider they were on the Cheika express to Europe last November. I don't think RG called Frisby out for any of his numerous brain explosions...

Except the ARU would also lose the $1m plus a year funding from Tourism NSW.

Personally, with what's coming out of the ARU (or complete lack-thereof), I rate it a zero chance that the NRC is played this year. Why should any State Unions should bother with an ARU competition when the ARU doesn't bother guaranteeing the State Unions or their Franchises. RUPA looks like...

If the broadcasters came back demanding financial compensation - we're fucked. The ARU should be veto'ing every proposal that involves cutting our teams. They have that right under SANZAAR. We can't lose 20% of our broadcast revenue 2 years into the broadcast deal that saved us from...