Recent content by Braveheart81

There's definitely a strong case being made that the 22 jersey is a specialist position and JOC (James O'Connor) is the leading candidate for that role right now.

No, I don't think there's anything official from Rugby Australia.

My guess is teams ask for dispensation to alter things slightly. Rugby Australia sets it at no more than 6 games in a row and then the Tahs make a request that some players can play 7 games in a row but will then get two weeks rest.

It's hard to tell whether this post is sarcastic or serious.

At the end of their two year appointment they enter a treatment program for their gout and high cholesterol as well as some psychologist appointments to allow them to get over alternate servings of beef or chicken/fish.

It's a largely ceremonial position.

https://www.rugby.com.au/news/nathan-sharpe-appointed-as-new-rugby-australia-president-two-new-board-members-confirmed-2025416

It's just the Reds and Force after they play an away game against the Drua. Not sure that's enough evidence of some sort of pro Waratahs conspiracy.

On my initial skim read of the financial statements, it certainly doesn't paint a rosy picture of the situation. My one mildly positive takeaway is that Rugby Australia only needed to increase their borrowing by $10m during the year to fund the operations plus the cash balance went down by $2m...

Not debt per-se but an excess of liabilities over the cash and other assets received. Primarily this is deferred revenue (i.e. the Waratahs have sold memberships for the 2024 season prior to 31 December 2023 and potentially received some advances for the 2024 season from Rugby Australia) but no...

Where did you get these figures from? I can see this bit in the Directors' report. Waratahs, acquired on 1 January 2024, was integrated into the Rugby AU group to create efficiencies and alignment in the Australian Rugby ecosystem. Waratahs reported a deficit of $3,817,000 from 1 January 2024...

He's in the squad and debuted last year when we were desperate. He hasn't been needed this year. I think he's still a talented prospect but he's also a loose head and we have a glut of them currently.

She got concussed in the second half of the grand final.