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Rugby isn’t dead in Canada. Walked past my local club the other day and there were three senior grades practicing, u-19s and u-16s boys and girls. We have major issues at the rugby Canada level and no gap between club and Canada (MLR is a joke. We don’t have a team in Vancouver…bc is the...

I’m more of the view that we should stop trying to poach current league players. Its hard to say if he’s saying that (tho I think he is) versus younger league players in general. I think Suli is probably a waste of $$ unless he is the next folau. we do need more props and locks etc and I agree...

Agreed on nz. Cheika can fire people up tho.

Maybe I just hate journos these days

I think SA will smash England. I’m unwilling to completely write Argentina off. They have big games in them against the best teams. But feels like an nz v sa final which will be awesome but I would’ve loved new blood in the final such as IRe v France but what a weekend of games. it puts in...

It’s not a story. It’s hearsay headline. A story is jaoan approached Eddie because of abc and this was the convo and here’s where it sits. I’m not unaware of modern journalism standard etc but it was just rumor mill. And the follow up stories have hardly confirmed anything - they have said the...

I think - what’s the point in writing the article then? What purpose does it serve? Only a negative for rugby / wallabies. Hardly proven and Eddie is denying it so just comes off as cynical journalism “I want a headline”

I think the need is for one of the following 1) SRP (Super Rugby Pacific) but with home and away games so that we get more rugby. Expand squads to compensate for extra games which gives more players big game experience. 2) Aus conference plus Fiji doing home and away games. NZ and Moana doing the same. Then an inter...

Is Warren the coach after this World Cup?

Admittedly an exaggeration

Aren’t Brumaire and red on board for high performance just not Commercial? Frankly don’t care about commercial component….reds will be fine. Brumbies will be short on cash in a few years and hand that over. If everyone signs on for skills, coaching development, performance and s&c that’s a win

Good point from Paul cully…. “In any other circumstance, RA would look to re-set the narrative and make a clean coaching change for the next four-year cycle. Indeed, they’d probably have done so with Rennie right about now had they not gone a year early. The man originally earmarked to replace...

I don’t really blame rennie for that The starting xv was probably half Australia A at the time and we were playing Italy at home. Italy were firing in 2022. Let’s not forget that. The Italy loss to me is a non first xv required cause of how many tests were packed into that tour by RA. I get why...

Old mate who called him a traitor probably feeling ok now!

Well Eddie is going to prove all his haters and doubters wrong if he jumps. All about Eddie etc etc What a shocker!

Super rugby A makes the most sense to me for the same reasons - you are getting economies of scale on facilities and staff. You could merge these and have super rugby and super rugby a and have them align with local universities for facilities etc a la Melbourne and la trobe. Maybe Melbourne uni...

I think you definitely can lose confidence in your leader. It doesn’t necessarily mean there’s hatred etc but you feel the game plan and systems and overall how you are trying to achieve your goal doesn’t seem to make sense nor be resulting in results and you can see that in real time. As a...

Not sure if anyone listens to the rugby pod but Jim, Andy (hates Eddie) and Andy were all separately saying they thought it looked like Eddie had lost the dressing room. Definitely did got that impression in the wales game and Portugal wasn’t much better.

I think this has to be on the cards. South Africa kind of tied to Europe now tho Personally I wouldn’t mind they do super rugby like the nfl - back to two conferences (aus and nz) play home And away in conference and finals and that determines who is in the champions league and the second tier...

I totally agree. We should be spending the big bucks to ensure we get too tight 5 players in aus if that’s what we need for them to be wallaby eligible. We just don’t need more wingers and that’s what league players are. How many successful league players have played 10,12,13? Sonny Bill? That’s...