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Kayo Sports is going fantastic and is News Limited's best move in a long time. It's actually one of the cleverest branding exercises imo too - instead of calling it fox streaming and making it super obvious you can just downgrade your fox subscription to a sports streaming package for 1/5 of...

AJ Jacobs from the rebels game was an interesting ref. The way I'd describe him is has great flow and continuity and the right attitude, good empathy for the game. He seems to treat the law as interpretative rather than the legalistic crap we get from some refs. At the same time, he's also...

I guess the lesson for all is that cruises are shit in other news, optus tipped to make a bid http://www.adnews.com.au/news/optus-tipped-to-make-bid-for-rugby-world-cup-rights

I was being sarcastic

https://www.foxsports.com.au/rugby/super-rugby/teams/reds/i-believe-it-can-happen-new-reds-skippers-huge-title-call/news-story/a0058f3cac1850286d26c9804a0f56b1 Well, call it off ladies and gentlemen. THe Reds are the official Super Rugby 2019 Champions!

Am I right in saying we have not beaten the tahs since 2013?

Kerevi, 25, said Thorn’s hard line on culture and standards sat well with him, but hoped he could lighten the coach’s load by setting the tone himself. “In the past I wouldn’t say it wasn’t policed well, but sometimes we’d let standards drop and wouldn’t pick it up as a playing group,” he said...

Some good progress seems to being made on the roster, I'm glad all the dead wood that had countless chances to perform but didn't is gone. I think the players have some potential but we might need one or two more key links and we could get journeyman's syndrome where we lose a lot of games by a...

Interesting to see the end of Karmichael. Joined 2015, scored four tries in four seasons, talked a bit, and sucked a whole lot of limited QRU resources down the toilet. You could probably apportion the dollars per try. Not much really went right, he was underweight and wrong body type when he...

It's a bit disingenuous to say Izaia Perese is bagging out rugby with his comments. He doesn't even mention it, he just says the Broncos pre-season has been tough. It's hardly a veiled reference, he doesn't say or imply that Rugby had a shit program (although we do). The Reds...

Thought I might get the ball rolling on some of the world cup news so we can have a bit of fun instead of just crying over the state of the game. First discussion point is which Aussie FTA broadcaster is actually hosting the World Cup. Channel 9 don't have it listed on their huge 2019 -- Their...

Couple of points on Ballymore. An upgrade which would make it feasible just would not cost that much. you need to upgrade the stands, perhaps bulldoze the creek end and the original one and remake them, and renovate the big one. You can keep the hill. You'd also need to fix up the catering...

This is code for the state government currently does not consider Ballymore a high priority project and is spending money elsewhere, and we want them to change their mind and push it forward. Some advice for the QRU - start playing realpolitik and do what the racing industry did and get a...

I back the Director of Rugby position. I've made earlier comments about moderating the autocratic nature of Head Coach with institutional checks and balances, and this is the right move. A good analogy is a director/producer relationship in a movie. The director of the movie wants to get the...

This whole FTA principle is true, but it needs to have the caveat - Yes, the product must be worth watching - SBS is not really a good comparison or productive - its market share is just so low that it is not really legitimate free to air television. It sits somewhere around 3% on the ratings...

What impact does constantly uploading stuff to instagram really have anyway? Personally I’m trying to get off the platform because it’s full of sycophantic wantrepeneurs

Guys with respect to staff - we just do not have the money to have blokes rolling around uploading random shit to instagram. Worth noting the AFL mandates huge amounts of staff at clubs and also pays for it. THe reason, they are rich and we are not.

In terms of any structure of an alternate super rugby competition. 1. It must be simple - and the administrators surely know this. The conference system is opaque, results in fan anger when teams that have objectively won less games are promoted etc. This rifled and rightly alienated NZ fans...

The Force will be drawn back by the lure of an actual proper professional competition...One of Raelene's biggest priorities will be burying the rift and warming relations with Twig man, ultimately with the aim of bringing him in as a monetary contributor to Rugby AU. How this plays out will be...

Righto then refute what the NZRU did with bug gate if that's the case. They got the information and deliberately released it on game day. Pulver said its release on game day was highly disappointing, given they had the information for most of the week. If I was treated like that by a business...