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NRL is a far bigger sport in this country and thus draws in far more athletic talent JP is fast and has some good footwork. To call him an athletic freak is a massive embellishment. He is a good rugby player. A freak was folau.

Making it in the nfl means playing in the nfl. If your definition of making it is being on a practice squad for a season…. I would put him at a low chance of making a practice squad. He has barely performed as an international rugby player - certainly not with any consistency. His hands are...

I would put him at zero chance of making it in the nfl.

He can comment on his new career. I don’t see why it’s a problem. His club just folded, wallabies were a mess. I think he handled himself fine. Rugby is in a very bad spot. See if the upcoming events are permanent fixes along with new structure or sugar hits. The players hopefully go to super...

Hunter also weighing up a departure Will be a fair few more between rebels players and elsewhere. Salaries still big enough in Europe and Japan to make sense of it

When we don’t have the cattle it is a bit of a development academy. I wouldn’t go back to either of those wells. Well past it. There is new talent at 10 it just needs to find its feet. I’d probably pick two of the best and rotate them a little bit to give them experience but not over burden...

And fox isn’t necessarily the answer and I admit I wasn’t here the last few years so didn’t see how bad it got but I know what eyeor sounded like. Prime has been great for various sports in NA but haven’t really swung big at anything consistently (Thursday night football etc vs full season of...

Why? We need eyeballs. We aren’t getting that on a third string channel w no advertising and how many fence sitting fans are buying a sports app that just has rugby? A niche product on a separate pay to watch app. Not perfect I would says we cater to pure rugby fans. How is it different to the...

Everyone seems to be raving about the Stan commentators on here…!

The current deal is dumb. We are on a separate streaming app from everything else. How many more eyeballs would we get from channel flicker equivalents if they had us all on the same app. I’d say a few. Free to air is a dying medium. On your phone or cast to your tv if tv doesn’t have streaming...

Watching gather round and again marveling at how much better afl is run V rugby. Why do we play all our super rugby games in our equivalent round in Melbourne - a city with limited rugby following - and all at the same stadium? Surely better served to at least pick 3-4 venues across Melbourne or...

Agree with that. Was referring specifically to tuopo, LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) etc referenced in post I quoted but would agree with tuopo. He probably becomes a better prop playing against Irish and South Africa props.

Would be nice if they stayed and strengthened the other four clubs to make super more competitive.

They are the ones still issuing legal action to bail them out of their mistakes tho no?

What is the best way, as a member, to express your lack of support to the board for their management and their current track w RA? In my mind their performances on field have been consistently a failure and it appears that off field it’s been a disaster. now they are risking nearly the...

Fair enough

That isn’t enough to make money

Do you think quade is the guy to coach our young 10s? I would have giteau in as a 10s consultant personally. Or anyone who had more consistency than cooper or who could play the other half of the game - defense

Japan league is a political decision away from not existing. Clubs basically required to fund community based things and loophole is rugby clubs that they fund. tv rights aren’t much. Attendance is low. If the government regulates the community component more, good bye to that league. France...

FTA was maybe a past problem but I personally don’t believe it. Fans weren’t lost cause you had to pay for it, fans were lost cause the grass roots were neglected under the strategy that a winning wallabies is what we need and there is an element of truth there. Fans will get behind the...