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How'd we go down to 13? We're the two yellows deserving or just soft yellows? Either way, looking at the RWC site our discipline was bad again. I'm in Fiji, so haven't had a chance to watch full game.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/rugby-australia-table-1-6m-deal-to-nrl-star-angus-crichton-20230928-p5e85v.html Laurie Daley is a chump trying to fly NRL buying union out. But I reckon he was fed the line to ask Peter V'Landys on radio. Going to be seeing a lot more articles kicking us...

If you've been here more than a minute, Slim has been pretty vocal for ages about this stuff, most of it ignored/ridiculed etc by various posters. I can see why he's poking fun at dumb ideas that are not new and been around the traps for ages - just search for the where to for super rugby...

Brett Papworth - is that you?

How's that working for you? https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/rugby-australia-table-1-6m-deal-to-nrl-star-angus-crichton-20230928-p5e85v.html Article referencing Western Force is part of the deal - bit far to commute from Perth to Randwick

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/rugby-australia-table-1-6m-deal-to-nrl-star-angus-crichton-20230928-p5e85v.html You gotta be kidding me! On top of all the crap news this week, we get this drop on us. Ok, sure, he's a good player, had a union background, but surely dropping this lure in...

The thing that gets me - and the reason he can just make like a sheep and get the flock out of here - is that in that whole rant, there's a lot about "accountability" and saying people need to leave, and not very much other substance. Yeah, accountability is good in and of itself, but how do you...

For those getting a hard on about Campo coming back, here it is: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/the-people-who-have-led-australian-rugby-into-crisis-must-be-held-to-account-20230927-p5e84s.html There's a lot of "I have....." statements in there, a long with a "Rugby Australia has...

Hell no.

If it did go back there - RA would have to insist that the level of production, number of games shown, different shows etc are not reduced in anyway. But I don't realistically see that happening.

Peter Fitzsimmons being reasonably coherent: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/there-is-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-but-jones-needs-to-be-off-at-the-next-stop-20230926-p5e7mw.html

But as a counterpoint, Burkey doesn't believe that cutting teams is the way to go - because the players who didn't make the team would head overseas in greater numbers.

Easy tiger

Look, I agree one FTA game is crap - but it's better than having NO FTA games. It does need to be better. Ch 9 won't do better because it's in direct competition with NRL which they also broadcast. I just don't think going back to Fox who hid Rugby for a decade is the right thing to do.

Ok, my bad - I just recall when it started, they didn't and V'Landys tried to stop it somehow.

Not this whole shrinking to greatness thing again?

Did you just start watching? Since Rugby went onto Stan/9: - There is at least one Super Rugby rugby game on FTA per week when before there was none - Club rugby is being shown on Stan when before it was not Yeah, ok, you can't watch rugby in pubs on Stan. Since when was it realistically being shown in...

They've been death riding rugby since well before then

If that's true, that's the real death knell for rugby in Australia - if you can't get people to watch it, there's going to be no money to pay the players.

I don't they are laughing, they're probably gutted for the players that went, perplexed as to how it happened. But I don't think they are finding this funny