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To be fair to me I read 1000 posts before making my first post and have read everything since Sunday night when the "announcement" was made. However I am very mindful of not being some insensitive wanker from a country who is not directly impacted who is just making academic points so I will...

Spell it out for me (without overdoing it) why I am short sighted. I would to learn plus I would like to learn your view. Bear in mind my view is the view of the ARU, the NZRFU, SARU, and SANZAAR Also a come back I have for you is how is 5 teams sustainable when viewership numbers are...

I mean no harm and despite coming from NZ I want the best for Australian rugby so that we can continue to have epic test matches against you and hopefully epic super 15 games in the future as well. I concede that I am not taking in the migration to Europe aspect accurately and probably don't...

I read an interview somewhere yesterday and a player felt that competition would be stiff for spots. Some NZ fans have observed a gap between the starting 15 and the bench for some of the Aussie franchises. With the surplus players available all 23 guys on each of the 4 teams should be...

More than those ten to be picked up? Even if they just become bench players or part of the squad for another team. What about Jordy Reid for example I have had my eye on him for a while as a valuable player.

So sorry if this is a stupid question but I just want to understand all the options in the face of how messy this is getting. Can the ARU turtle if it wants to and say lets keep 5 teams until 2020? Or is it bound by the London agreement and SANZAR now (plus the threat of a telling off from...

Good post.

This is a throw away comment but the ARU are going to need balls of steel and clear and level headed thinking to work through this. In my MBA I took a strategy class on non market place strategic management, which basically boiled down to how to lobby with governments, local authorities and the...

Explain more, as I don't see the strategy.

Wow take a time travel back to Monday. The ARU seemed to be on to it "We will have this resolved within 72 hours" While the SARU were mumbling something incomprehensible about some convoluted committee and criteria and a process and lots of people. Now all of a sudden SA's process and management...

To a 3rd party person like me it seems like a fluffybunnyy thing to do sue the ARU for just suggesting they might get the chop. This decision may yet be played out in the heart of the ARU and Melbourne may have overplayed its hand by boxing the ARU into a corner and taking such an adversarial posture.

This turning into a cluster fuck (can you say that on this forum)

Hi thanks for the welcome after my first post. 1) I noted that other people also chimed in that maybe a Rebels / Brumbies solution was the answer. I have been debating the advantages of a merger vs a takeover. With a merger if the ARU does it right there is a chance they can give a percentage...

NZ fan here who has been lurking in this thread for the past 3 days. You guys are the hub of the Internet with regards to this issue. Plus planet rugby to a much lesser extent. Thanks for the informative thoughts I have been glued to each post. After reading so much I felt compelled to post...