Recent content by ChargerWA

My first game of Rugby watched since the Force debacle. Having 12 months away from the game helps you see it with fresh eyes. Can’t believe the work Hooper gets through. 12 months ago I could have taken him or left him. How wrong I was.

And if the ARU had any balls they should have said thanks and best of luck elsewhere. What if his views were anti Semitic? Should we just accept that its his deeply held belief so he is therfore allowed to hold and share it. No thanks, discrimination is discrimination.

Wallabies having 100 put on them at Eden Park by the ABs isn't infeasible.

The girls of Australia are doing more for our chances at winning a Bled than the ARU and players combined.

Listening to Hugh's rant on the podcast about the ARU today crystallised something in my mind. Fans have stopped caring about Super Rugby because SANZAR doesn't care about it. They look at the crooked conference system, fixtures producing months during season without a home game, all momentum...

Wessels will be lost to us. If you follow him on twitter, a lot of his posts are about SA provincial Rugby. I suspect his heart is still back there.

Fuck Australian Rugby. #eastcoastelitistboysclub

It's over. Players will go leaving us no team to field, even if we win proposed legal action.

But they can't, because the first team to need one will be one of the favourite children. Probably the Tahs. Force and Rebels know whats at stake, they won't allow themselves to be first.

I agree the maths seems off, but also remember seeing a tweet where one of the local clubs bought 10 shares, another 7 etc. I only bought 1, but the other person I've met who bought any, bought 4. One for each family member. But I'm still suss on the $8.5M figure too.

I was wondering why the transfer to VRU had gone quiet. So it's starting to look like Cox has to decided if he is willing to kick any of his own money in to offload the Rebs to the VRU or stick it out and see if he can get the books to balance so it doesn't cost him anything personally if he...

And what effect does that have on broadcast value? If say we end up with 16 teams and have to go to a round robin which cuts the number of derbys down, are the broadcast partners still willing to honour the original contract value as they are for 15 teams?

Is there definitely an out option to just gift it back to the VRU? I read an article last night from 9 days ago where Clyne stated that Cox could only transfer ownership with ARU approval. Which is a pretty shit clause for Cox as the ARU could in theory obstruct a $20,000,000 purchase offer from...

Look, to merge the Brumbies and Rebels isn't a popular idea. But if you remove the emotion surrounding it, it is the most sensible. Brumbies will finish burning through their HQ sale cash in 6 months time and Cox doesn't really want the Rebels anymore. But won't offload them where there is a...