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One question I have about this (an idea that I am a huge fan of)- does the SARU have much to do with the ownership/running of their franchises? What I'm getting at, is that keeping the SARU in TRC might be a way of keeping the SARU blazers happy (and give them a decent revenue stream), and...

This is an absolute disaster. The ARU have lost me. I might come back to professional rugby if the Soup is canned. Might pop down to my local club, but only because they (Parra) don't seem to be obsessed with the self-aggrandisement of the Eastern Sydney and North Shore clubs.

I think anybody that believes that different on-field results would have changed anything is deluded. Even had the Australian teams managed to score a few wins against foreign opponents, it wouldn't be enough. The teams are broke. The model is not financially sustainable. Travel is not just...

I'm not sure where their amateurs will play, tbh. I would assume that Federale 1 is too high a level- but it's a big comp and I could be wrong. Edit- hopefully we'll see some Aussies heading home? Though it's probably more likely they'll go to a different cashed-up Euro club.

This doesn't really belong here, but I can't start threads yet for some reason, so I'll put it here. Stade Français and Racing metro have announced their intention to merge, and will do so as early as next season. The aim is to preserve the amateur clubs as-is, but to have only one...

I haven't read through the thread, so not sure if this has been mentioned; but the decreasing quality of both the South African Super Rugby sides and the Springboks surely reduces their on-field utility to NZR. What is more harmful to NZR? The possibility of their closest tier one nation going...

Seems to me, that if we keep going down the path that we're on (and I take that to mean in Super Rugby, with 5 teams or 4), that at some point the NZRU will have to decide whether they're better served by playing South Africans in the Soup with pro rugby eventually becoming unsustainable in...

Would be interesting to see how the club game rated.

RE: Woollahra, my understanding is that the rubber-infill technology is no longer considered the best, and that the rubber itself may be toxic and pose a health risk. Pretty sure a couple of European countries have banned it in schools. Natural alternatives have been developed (from shredded...

Where the heck are they going to move? Somewhere in the north-west? Castle Hill Showground?

Would be very surprised if Macquarie wasn't involved, given their support for the Rays. Surely the 8-team comp will be east coast only to start with?

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Me: I'm tired of getting my hopes up for the Reds, they'll never have a good year again. Other Me: Get your hopes up, we've got next season in the bag.

One thing that I think is a little under-rated in their success (and is certainly not the primary contributor) is their branding. Adopting a traditional hooped jersey and a fairly traditional-style logo makes it easier, I think, to present the club as a traditional football club, rather than a...

I don't agree with a lot of stuff that Sydney club-people post, but it's spot on IMO (and Manly are certainly one of the best clubs when it comes to development). The clubs could and should be used to roll-out grassroots participation initiatives, and I think that the ARU strategy should look to...

Whoever is appointed, it has to be somebody with an ego strong enough to take working with Quade, rather than dictating to him. Didn't Ewen say that Quade often helped to come up with the game plans in the winning season? He's obviously got a good rugby brain.

To be honest, (if the message was of forgiveness rather than exoneration) I don't see much difference between writing that message on his tape -in the form of a acronym, so he at least tried to make it somewhat cryptic- and the often absurdly large messages of explicit religious devotion we...

It's a sad situation, but Fifita and Loveridge have a long history of friendship, and Fifita could play a positive role in the rehabilitation of the criminal in question. I think it's completely unreasonable to expect him to abandon a childhood friend. Whilst there is no doubt that the family...

How many weeks until pre-season formally starts? Surely they've picked the assistant coaches by now, they're just waiting to announce it?

Do you know anything about his recovery/when he is expected to return? His return game for Sunnybank earlier this year was eye-catching, to say the least. Can't wait to see what he can do next season.