Recent content by Braveheart81

This is my issue with Christy's article. He's acting like Rugby Australia missed out on making this a major event. It's just not. It's boring and almost nothing is added by watching it live versus waiting 20 minutes to see a picture with the result. Somewhat similar to complaints about the...

If only he'd done this and quoted his previous account:

While it's frustrating that it will cost Rugby Australia money, it's probably a smart move from Foketi. It's unlikely to make any sense for Rugby Australia to defend the claim. The amount owing to Foketi for the remainder of his contract is unlikely to be more than what it would cost to defend...

With 6 pools, assuming all 6 pool winners make the quarter finals, two of the quarter finals have to be pool winner vs pool winner so it does just boil down to luck of the draw.

I assume a bunch of the money will be spent on travel for the Aussie teams.

I'm speculating entirely but I would guess there's some sort of equalization clause that allocates a certain amount of the local broadcast rights from the other teams against what is owing to them from the ITV deal.

I agree with your first point and certainly the boy who cries wolf element to it makes it harder to take seriously. I was just raising the perspective that maybe the request isn't purely travel related and that they view playing in Tokyo in July as a significant part of the issue. The point...

Is weather a consideration? Tokyo in July averages 30 degree highs and the humidity is pretty torrid.

At Lang Park that is 52,500 people and 61,266 at Perth Stadium. The only venue where we can fit more people than Olympic Park Stadium is the MCG.

He was jaded well beyond his years.

NSW Government pays money for the event and we sell 75k+ tickets.

It was only a day or two ago that Stillmissit was complaining about Al Baxter.

Yes, but moreso coming from the angle that the Wallabies have largely been an inconsistent and frustrating team for a lot of the last 20 years. Absolutely not on the second question. I think going it alone would be catastrophic financially. We would need a substantial amount of privatization...

I feel like all of these comments could have been written at pretty much any point in the last 20 years.

Isn't this a pretty standard element of average teams that their form ebbs and flows and they are largely inconsistent? Two months before beating England, Argentina put 67 points on us and won by 40. The week after beating England we beat Wales by 32 and then lost the following week to...