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That's not it at all. My underlying point here is that regardless of what happens, the people who lose most are the players and the fans who have absolutely nothing to do with any of this. I think the Rebels directors and administration genuinely thought they were acting in the best interest...

I don't think you really care what happens either. You want your pound of flesh and you don't really care what the cost is to get it. The reality is the people you are angry at will never suffer any consequences. The worst case scenario for them is that they go and get another (probably higher...

Regardless of what they were aware of I'm unsure how you can state that being aware of someone doing something illegal is equally bad as the person doing the illegal thing. If RA was fully aware of the situation is your suggestion that they should have tried to wind up the Rebels multiple years...

This is potentially the most insane position you've taken out of a lot of insane positions.

One entity has audited financial statements and the other hasn't released a set of financials for several years.

Donaldson has been the starter for two tests this year (Georgia and one against Argentina unless I'm forgetting a third) and come off the bench in a couple more. Schmidt has certainly had plenty of opportunity to look at his play both in training and match situations. I think it's pretty clear...

You seem to look at RA as other and not literally being the sport in Australia. It's hard to pinpoint an administration at any level of rugby in Australia and particularly at the ARU/RA level at any point in our history that hasn't made mistakes. You seem to think that it's worthwhile killing...

Except it's probably going to cost you millions of dollars to properly defend it. RA could be the best run organisation in the world and defending this legal action is still going to cost them a lot of money.

RA aren't the corporate regulator. I'm not sure what proving RA knew about the Rebels financial state would really achieve aside from indicating that perhaps RA should have led the charge to get the Rebels wound up?!? I also don't see how the Rebels directors can really run this argument...

I don't think it's going to get anywhere near that far. From the Rebels' directors perspective they materially improve their position if RA gets advice that defending any significant court action is going to cost them several million and they are unlikely to be able to recover their costs and...

I'm unsure what that has to do with the Corps Act. Yeah, if they can prove that they would potentially have a case. That said I would be absolutely stupefied if anyone with enough authority at Rugby Australia had put in writing that they were willing to cover the external debts of the Rebels...

You'd bloody well hope it is. Australia certainly shouldn't stand in the way of this guy getting charged on the basis that his spouse is a diplomat.

Firstly, there's zero details as yet on what they're accusing in relation to the Corps Act. Secondly, this is a civil court. I am entirely unsure how the Rebels being able to show that Rugby Australia breached a section of the Corps Act relates to whether or not they could cancel the Rebels'...

All these arguments seem absolutely spurious to me. There was no centralisation and the Rebels were a separate legal entity. Why would RA be obliged to indemnify the directors for tax debts? Does this mean that RA should indemnify every director of every rugby entity in Australia that is under...

Doesn't really belong here but this is an incredibly rugby story. Getting arrested at 3:30am after the Bledisloe Cup match for being involved in a brawl and then swearing at Police that you've got diplomatic immunity...

The Rebels directors are trying to avoid being held personally liable for various debts owed by the Rebels to the ATO.

We already have. Nigel Owens is saying that he doesn't agree with it. It's somewhat perverse that the same people arguing that the 20 minute red card is bad for player safety are also arguing that some of the incidents we have now determined should be red card offences aren't red card...

And before him, Tahs legend Tepai Moeroa.

It's a rare event for any player to play every test in the season. In my view we need to bring in more overseas players on a revolving basis so we increase the pool of players we are utilizing. Make it the norm that every squad has half a dozen foreign based players and we rotate through a...

I have no specific knowledge but I would not be at all surprised to find out that the Wests Tigers were paying his school fees.