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Well no, RA has all clubs locked into a financial unsustainable competition. The game won’t survive being trapped into super rugby. While it’s not up to the Brumbies to build a new stadium. You get 6 home games at the worst ground in the comp. RA is responsible for the TV rights and we keep...

Is this bloke real?

Lol no super W team is profitable they all rely on RA grants

Rugby Australia is doing all it can to kill the grass roots here

I stated the third most local juniors to play internationally. You don’t understand the sporting landscape in Australia at all. So enjoy your day

So explain how killing off your third most productive market is going to help the depth of the game when we face increased competition from the AFL and NRL? You are incapable of articulating how shrinking to greatness will work, when it has proven not to have worked in the past

Big chance Sione’s brothers will earn a Scottish cap as well

Off the top of my head Victorian kids to achieve international honours in the last 15 odd years, I maybe missing some Wallabies Josh Canham Rob Valetini Pete Samu Jordy Uelese Isaac Ado-Kalia Lloyd Johansson Christian Leali'ifano Pone Fa'amausili Rob Leota Tetera Faulkner Digby Ioane...

I have been talking about pathways and the challenges the game faces. Not once have I said in this thread that they should be re-instated. The point was that shrinking to greatness by putting the nail in the coffin of your third most fruitful marketed when it comes to player development is...

There were 4 that played this season all from the Quinn’s not on that list, Pete Samu not on that list.

@Bullrush what understanding of the sporting landscape do you have in Victoria? As I have played multiple sports here coached and volunteered at multiple clubs. I am not interested in your thoughts on the Rebels and their success or lack of it. Yet it is painful obviously that you’re not...

Obviously they weren’t as we had 20 years of the Storm winning with union being the dominant participation code of rugby in the state. How is that possible if the Storm are so attractive because they are winning premiership? As the Storm winning has been a constant

Tell me why shrinking to greatness will work now when it didn’t 5 years ago. At a time where talented juniors are in even higher demand from other codes.

Well they chose the Rebels and union over the Storm and as you are so keen to remind everyone the Rebels were not successful. It is the significant financial investment that the NRL is putting into the grassroots that is winning the battle

This isn’t about the Rebels, it’s about the fact shrinking to greatness doesn’t work. We can look directly at the results of cutting to Force. Especially when your biggest rivals are growing

Not my fault you have the intellect of a prepubescent child

And without the Rebels academy developing him he wouldn’t have been signed

It’s because sugar hits from the Lions or the World Cup are irrelevant if you don’t have a sustainable product

Wow you are moronic. What do you know about Melbourne fuck all. There were 3 on the weekend, 4 have played this year. That’s not with standing capped wallabies that haven’t got a look in due to fitness or the fact they are going overseas. Also there is a real likelihood in a few years there...

The issues our good mate @Bullrush is blissfully unaware of are: While they say we don’t have the depth for 5 teams yet we cut the team that produces the third most amount of talent there are a huge amount of Victorians playing at an international or test level. As the rebels are disbanding...