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Raelene Castle for CEO? Just resigned from the Doggies.

The only club in Brisbane that could do it is Sunnybank, though I have no idea if they have any appetite to do so. It'd be good to see the second QLD team play out of Ipswich/Logan, but I don't think there are any appropriate facilities down that way. Maybe the Ipswich Jets home ground, if...

I'm assuming that with Eastwood apparently moving quite some way away from Eastwood itself, maybe they'll rebrand Eastwood as the North-West Rams as well. After all, it doesn't make much sense to have a club called Eastwood in Castle Hill (or wherever).

Hmmm. Not the silliest idea- but where would they play? Presumably wherever the Woods are moving to.

The salary cap question is critical IMO - regardless of what happens in the future. I think that the easiest way to implement the necessary changes is fairly straight forward. 1 cap for Super rugby, and then each team is assigned a supplementary cap equivalent to 25% (or 20%) of the total...

This is an anecdote that I heard third-hand, so take it with a heavy helping of salt. Apparently before the Lions tour a few years back, an advertising agency approached the ARU with the aim of winning a contract. The response was apparently "the tour will sell itself out, we don't need to...

What a fucking joke.

Would not be surprised if this whole process remains as opaque as it has been thus far, only to have court action commence, and a confidential settlement reached. Everyone saves face. Cox gets to fight The Man, and the ARU get to hide just how much this is going to cost them.

Cronk might actually be useful at 12. Simone probably needs another season or two before he can consistently transfer his club/NRC form to a professional competition, and Horwitz doesn't seem to be the answer. Cronk could help mentor the younger blokes in terms of his professionalism, and would...

Smaller grounds are starting to get redeveloped around the place as well (or at least there's talk of it). Money's still set aside for an upgrade of Brookvale Oval, which would be perfect for the Rays, Ballymore will get an upgrade if that new Brisbane soccer team gets the green light, the new...

People said the same thing about the bigger NSL sides (granted, none of their brands were nearly as popular as the Supe sides)

Why not just make the NRC sides professional, and save the Reds and Waratahs names for a 'state of origin'? :)

Tasmania, Adelaide, and New England are the big surprises for me. Great to see some positive news for the code come out.

They had big crowds, but they never sold it out.

Money will help, at least if it's well-spent. Australian rugby needs to be able to provide top-notch coaching and decent training facilities. We're competing with football codes that are more-or-less semi-professional from under 15s.

Clearly nobody would agree to a competition that can't cover its own costs (I mean, not on top of the money-burning exercise of Super Rugby anyway). If they could get in-kind sponsorship from QANTAS, Air NZ, or even Jetstar, the comp could work. I'd assume that Fox would be much more...

Interesting article in The Guardian today, where Andrew Hore (Waratahs CEO) suggests that the NRC teams could enter the NPC in order to generate more revenue. He also says that it would take only 2 or 3 years, max, for Australian rugby to turn it around. It's nice that he's optimistic, and...

Philip 'Chook' Fowler

We must do two things next season: 1) recruit Jim McKay as attack/backs coach 2) increase pig iron production by 500%

Would be nice if there was a running tally of numbers!