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Absolute bullshit I’m not against a team in western Sydney, but to say that a team in WS has zero threat to the tahs in terms of fan support is legit laughable. With rugby support as is atm even a shift of a few thousand is a heavy hit. Let alone all the other factors at play that would...

Sinkler, Vunipola, Underhill, Tuilagi - For their playing style, i don't think the lions have the power to match the Boks without these guys AWJ ive never rated very highly i think Gray & Ryan are better options Care & May pretty hard done by I like Ringrose but understand why he's not...

So keen to see the Brumbies and Reds take on the Crusaders, Chiefs and Blues. Very interested to see how we measure up

That squad has definitely evened the competition. Would’ve said the Lions were favourites pre announcement, now I’d say it’s 50:50

They avoid it as much as possible, and they almost never get the main tv/audio if they do

We're not worried about our own inconvenience here, we're worried about the lack of exposure to casual sports fans and potential new rugby fans.

I didn't know the Forces excessive "us vs them mentality" extended to their recruitment decisions

Interest not so sure, that’s a multi layered question affected by a whole range of issues across different demographics My main crux with club rugby and to a extension would probably aid in the above, is that we’re overreaching with the number of grades. I’m going to use Sydney as the example...

I’d genuinely prefer we do nothing rather than a club championship. What a waste of money for little to no gain NRC in some format needs to come back, whether it’s in the next week or in 5 years. The new NRC needs to be planned better, have a clear and manageable vision shared across all...

It’s a pretty important part to cover if you’re going to propose something like that

Did you just totally miss the part where I said NSW butchered their involvement?

Well 3 of those teams it’s pretty fucking easy, one team towns and essentially the same from ARC to NRC QLD may have “clear geographic alignment” with city and country but the numbers across multiple sports are that the city v country rivalry ain’t what it used to be

Bring back the ARC at least those teams had some sort of geographic alignment. Would’ve been far more successful imo if it were given a similar run to what the NRC had Also agree NRC overall was great for development, NSW butchered their involvement

Shute Clubs need to lift their juniors commitment if they want to be taken seriously as THE development pathway. Junior union rep teams are little more than a community club that just so happens to have the best players from the area in it. There's little attempt to develop the players...

Have no idea why he's talking about Storm junior development, its atrocious. They've been a stable club for 20 something years now and hardly any victorians have made the NRL. Both Force and Rebels have done better

AFL have been pumping up their numbers with Auskick programs for years and im sure League do similar. Whatever creative counting needs to be done to get us somewhat level peggings with our competitors, im happy with

Is Nadolo still playing at all? I see he seems to have a bit of a passion for this project, wouldn’t surprise me if he were to play for them for a year or so, would certainly help with the interest levels and possibly convincing others to sign

That’s nice

To be fair that’s not a penalty to you, it’s an incentive to someone else Also why would a governing body care if you are loyal to a club or you move around, doesn’t make a difference to them. If anything it should be HH subsidising your rego

Exactly right Imagine if all clubs had a requirement of 2 grades plus U21’s (I’d prefer U22’s), there would 100% be some short term pain but long term it would be amazing. No need to have Sydney wide competitions which will further increase participation