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Finals are the big money spinner for most clubs and the broadcast deals, one less final played hurts that, and actually hurts the top 2 teams more as they get on less chance to host a final and make money off of the gate.

Waratahs and Crusaders fighting it out to not miss out, I like it. Even better we go 9 team and they both miss out.

All.rugby uses the northern hemisphere seasons, so those stats will include last year's world cup an warm ups. Basically everything after last years rugby championship

I hope we don't start punishing our players for increasing their BMI, particularly our props.

All rumours (of varying degrees of strength) at this stage, but Grealy to the Force and Annan to the Newcastle Knights.

I'm hearing legal trouble, some sort of big suit.

Kayo is a bit different to Stan in that respect though - they're (and were already) entirely sport and we are relatively small fry there, where as Stan shifting into ad-supported would potentially see sport become a greater focus of their business model.

Oddly enough that plateau may also help us, if it pushes Stan to offer a cheaper, ad supported subscription, the way a few others have been. It would (hopefully) get more subscribers with access to our games and should increase the value of 'event tv' on the platform. Not sure if that's more or...

That feels most likely at this stage, particularly with him over there on holiday right now.

Proctor says Franklin was the one who convinced him to join the Force, so not all bad (assuming Proctor actually makes it on the field next year):

Did you hear any detail on the positions there? I assume that would McCormack in an assistant role with someone like Zane Hilton stepping into the head coach space, not just McCormack straight into head coach. Or possibly Les Kiss staying on as head coach but with McCormack coming in to add more...

Yeah, but with O'Connor, Creighton and potentially Petaia, Grealy and Annan all moving on there would be some money to play with. Would probably still take an RA top up to lure him back. As I said it's not likely but I'd like to see it. Paying as a starter yes, but that could just as easily be...

Campbell has been getting a bit of time there, but that's probably only as coverage. Maybe the same for Werchon. Taj Annan would be an option but the rumour is he's heading the Newcastle Knights, this may have changed that though. If we bring someone else in I think it's either Mason Gordon at...

Damn, sad to see him go but he probably only had the one year left here if he stayed. With Creighton having gone as well this massively increases Mason Gordon's chances of picking up a contract, though I wouldn't mind us picking up another experienced player somewhere in the backline. Maybe...

He's a good enough athlete to probably go far in rugby and the Reds have shown interest in the past, though it's hard to predict at his age exactly how well he'd fill out and how is he body would hold up for the 2nd/back row, but at 6'5" and 100kg he's already a big human. It's a bit hard to...

Named after the Ant (which is probably named after the nursery rhyme). It's the non-cliche option for Tasmania compared to the tigers/devils. They pre-date the NBL side too:

Unbeatable in the lineouts though

Triston Reilly has re-signed for another 2 years:

We probably have room for at least one other relatively cheap/young guy, if Annan is going then maybe 2 with a bit more experience. Mason Gordon, Lebron Naea, Mosese Dawai and Lukas Ripley look like the obvious candidates at the moment, maybe Will Cartwright squeezes in there too, but probably...