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Koroibete is 32. There's a chance he's just going through a form slump but there's an ever increasing likelihood that he has passed his peak and is now on a downward trajectory and he's just going the gradually (then rapidly) get worse from here. He has been so good for so long that he deserves...

I feel like white collar crime should get a boost when it comes to selection in this team. It helps boost classic rugby stereotypes.

I'm a massive fan of Wilson and have watched him play a lot of rugby. He has very little in the way of a kicking game yet and that has held him back from getting more game time at the Waratahs. There's also the question of what was better for his development this season. Is playing 10 minutes...

Of course the game is run on the back of volunteers. That will always be the case. The distribution from RA to the QRU has been between 46% and 54% of what the QRU spends on "Game Development and Operations" (essentially the line item in the QRU financials that relates to grassroots) in the...

The QRU receives over a million dollars a year from RA. Do you think they'd miss it if could no longer be paid?

Maybe they realised they needed to budget for potentially millions of dollars of legal fees defending action from the former directions of MRRU? I think the likely answer is that without the Rebels still existing, the cost of having a standalone women's team would be unviable given there's no...

The structure of AFL is the reverse of RA. AFL NSW/ACT and AFL Qld are wholly owned subsidiaries of the AFL. RA is the umbrella union of which NSWRU/QRU/VRU etc. are the members. They effectively own RA. If they don't like the way it is run they can change it.

Again, RA is the national body which is the way the state unions organise things on a national basis (principally at the elite level of the game). RA is meant to be non-existent at the grassroots level. That is run by the states. You are consistently angry at RA but seemingly don't understand...

I have also said that I think McLaughlin-Phillips is the most promising option on the horizon. He's 20 and has barely played Super Rugby though. Surely you're not suggesting that the best thing for him and the Wallabies is to select him now? I certainly don't think he's shown that he's a...

It was an analogy. Of course there are other managers out there that a business can hire. This is Australian Rugby though. We literally have four starting Super Rugby 10s to choose from and they are Noah Lolesio, Ben Donaldson, Tom Lynagh and Tane Edmed. Aside from Tane Edmed all of them have...

Who are these amazing players that he's failing to identify? I am not a fan of Lolesio and you can look back through years of posts on this forum that attest to that. I am pretty comfortable saying that it is perfectly reasonable to decide that he's the best option we currently have and stick...

Who has been thrown on the scrapheap?

There's not really others though. Lynagh is clearly not ready and maybe we'll see Edmed given a chance on the EOYT. Edmed is also clearly not a much better player. In terms of your analogy I would say there are two poor managers and you're the boss and you have no choice but to promote one of...

My overall take here is that Lolesio and Donaldson are much of a muchness and it's better to pick and stick with one of them for the bulk of tests than it is to chop and change because neither are overly good. I think Schmidt has come to the same conclusion. In my view both are placeholders...

I'm not missing the point. Donaldson hasn't shown he's clearly a better option and Schmidt has determined that he thinks Lolesio is his best option available at this time and will persist with that. He has seen a lot of both of them in training and enough on the field from Donaldson to tell...

Did he? It was pretty broadly accepted that he didn't really grasp his opportunity against Georgia which is the weakest team we've played this year. We scored two tries in that first half against Argentina in the second test and I think Donaldson was fine. I would hardly describe the attack as...

They've had game time. It's not like Donaldson has been purely trying to make his case on the training paddock. He's started 2 out of our 9 tests this season and come off the bench in some others. Lynagh has had a bunch of cameos off the bench. If they want to show that they deserve more...

RA are saying that the MRRU directors misled them and if they had been aware of various things across those years they wouldn't have let the licence continue and thus wouldn't have made any of the payments.

We seem to be in the midst of the largest reform the professional game has seen since it started with centralisation happening (albeit through necessity). I'm not really sure what reform you are looking for. I'd argue that the most needed reform is for all the unions under RA to give more...

These are all different decisions made over a number of years by different people. This is why the concept of holding people to account is ridiculous. Half the people you are angry at are no longer involved.