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I was trying to be nice by saying 'competitive' I'll re-phrase for you "because Super Rugby was a far better competition when Australia had at least 1 competitive team fans believed could win it."

Outside of Covid?

I appreciate this post :) I’m not someone who stubbornly stays rooted in an opinion regardless of argument or evidence. I used to be staunchly on the side of ‘condensing talent’ because Super Rugby was a far better competition when Australia had at least 1 competitive team. But listening to guys like...

Why do Australians think it's terrible? Because they don't win. There were no Reds or Tah fans saying it was a shit competition in 2011 and 2014. Yes - the competition has had some shit years with confusing conferences and bad time zones etc but none of that is an issue with SA, Argentina and...

First bolded bit: why would you create a competition with more average teams and lower-quality games? NZ doesn't have the depth, or probably the money, for another Super Rugby team and we've seen what happens here when you just start adding franchises. No thanks. Second bolded bit: You have one or two...

Fuck off. I've addressed this dumb fucken idea before. I live here, I'm invested here and I'm involved here so I'll comment if I want to.

What I advocate for is nothing strange or extraordinary or weird. Every one of the best countries in the world has their pro teams in international competitions - including Australia who was ranked either 2nd and 3rd in the world for a considerable period. None of the most successful countries...

That’s me bro! I’m all in and supporting the boys. I love the way they are trying to play and I hope an AB win, playing up-tempo and exciting rugby, starts a trend in how to play winning rugby.

You said ‘its the lack of competition’ and I completely agree. Where we differ is that you want competition by weakening the tournament instead of trying to improve, produce better rugby players and compete against the tougher opponents.

Ummm…this is exactly what I’ve said. Instead of trying to be competitive, you’d rather not play anyone better than you. And sure, if you think a Covid-effected season is a good measure of what is normal then cool bro. LOL

Or you could try and improve? The only people interested in watching 3rd rate rugby are already rugby fans. The defeatist attitude and cowardly approach to excluding anyone who you can’t beat right now is everything that’s wrong with Australian rugby. With this kind of thinking, the Wallabies...

And why do they have more interest? Because fans don’t think their team can beat a NZ team. The Reds had no problems with fan engagement in 2011 when they were winning…

Ahhhh….the shrink to greatness model again. We don’t want the challenge of actually improving and winning against the best so let’s shrink competition to ensure Australian teams win! The article talks about how Ireland only has 4 pro clubs and Scotland 2. It admits a domestic comp would...

Well….he’s not like one of the Top 5 locks at international level….

Not the 'Ouss ouss'!! LOL

It was interesting listening to Andrew Mehrtens, Jeff Wilson and Tim Horan talk about this on Stan last nite. The comment was made that ‘formulaic rugby’ can win and be successful at this level but it’s not good enough beyond this level. It’s something I’ve definitely seen and thought watching...

For at least the last decade, people with a lot of rugby clout and credentials have been discussing the growing issues within rugby in Australia and warning of the demise. And Rennie had to try and coach through and around that, like all the coaches before him. Many could see what Rennie was...

The wind? There really wasn’t any wind to speak of today.

And yet soooo many people could see very early on that Jones wouldn’t go well in this RWC. And it was proven right game by game while people like you were crying ‘But Rennie lost to Italy!’ Rugby people could see not just the obstacles Rennie had to overcome but the way he was trying to build...

Two other sporting codes that have almost zero international competition.