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On another note, I think it's clear the best proposal for Australia is a Trans-Tasman comp, round robin. NZ could keep, possibly add 2 teams and Australia could return to 5. This could put the Western Force back in and see Rugby AU sue for peace with Twiggy et al, perhaps even bring them into...

Few points Australia's negotiating position is fucked in terms of super rugby. we have no plausible 2nd tier alternative to Super Rugby - the NRC is 3rd tier and not doing too flash, clubland also third tier and is amateur. We need 2nd tier to sell a broadcast deal worth a substantial amount...

The core of Jones' point about returning to the clubs goes to the same anti centralisation, pro individual club and community feel. I really like it in theory, and almost all sport has started off like that and grown from it. But the reality is that globalisation has pulled all that to pieces...

Professional sport is no longer about motivation and riotous outbreaks of passion. Anyone who is a pro athlete has passion and wants to win, and they wouldn't be able to get there and do the job without it. Being a pro athlete is actually a shit job, you do the same monotonous tasks for most of...

All that's waiting to completely destroy RA is a few international management consultants to be bussed in and partition the place into a million pieces like its poland or something

The biggest thing is we need people that just understand how community organisations work. RA obviously still runs at a profit and loss each year, but its objectives are the good of the Rugby Game, not to satisfy monetary shareholders. It's a unique industry that operates on a different plane to...

Sadly, this misguided post could not be further from the truth. The first thing to point out is that Australia is not in the same group as England at the RWC. Secondly, no organisation worth their salt makes key decisions based on media coverage, be it a company, a political party or an NFP...

Fair enough but it's easy to grandstand on the role of journalists in getting information - unfortunately the realpolitik of a situation is that you have to trade favourable coverage to get the drops. Maybe GeoRob does too much of this in return for not offering a legitimate critique of RA, but...

I agree - in fact this is a poor decision because it serves as an admission of guilt from RA. They made the decision they wanted to talk to him, it shouldn't be influenced my the meeting becoming public knowledge. They should own the decision. Governing to win the 6 o'clock news is not a smart...

I think the answer here is nuance. Any discussion about the removal of Cheika needs to have the caveat that like the removal of any leader, who replaces him is important. I'm not too flash hot on Jakeball and I see no other standout coaches off contract. Be careful what you wish for when...

Is kick off at 2.15?

The scrums dead set need reform or some kind of system preventing the pure gaming of the rules for uncontested scrums. I have refereed lower grade GPS games for 7 years now and the practice is getting worse over time and is probably deliberate.. This year I have reffed probably 15/16 games...

It’s not even sarcasm, I’m just so sick of the shameful vile despicable criminal disgusting egregious astonishing unbelievable and utterly inexplicable bias against the wallabies and I think there ought to be a royal enquiry with criminal implications for how Australian rugby has been...

Should the referee be brought to Nuremberg to explain his actions?

This is just despicable crime against humanity refereeing. Leave world rugby and send them a Message

It’s more than just a game when the northern unions vote on bloc and use their clandestine influence within world rugby to ensure politically appropriate referees are appointed. ARU needs some HAWKS running theor foreign policy!

Is it time Australia used the full power of the federal government to demand better refereeing, given the astonishingly poor and typically pro all blacks performances we’ve seen? I’d like to see ambassadors get in touch with the World Rugby on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia and query...

Anyone know how many tickets have been sold

Kerevi is a strong Super Rugby player but his defense just is not up to standard at test level. Him v the all blacks in Sydney was like watching a cat play with its dinner. He has some fantastic offloading stats, fantastic attacking positioning and legwork as well as vision in attack, but his defense...

Each week I hear more and more noise about this getting done, fingers crossed. Kate Jones is the local member or thereabouts and is very interested in the project, palaszczuk also keen. The cost isn't super expensive, and the busway could easily be extended from RBWH. Also RE AFL, they can...