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- Good morning highly paid Super Rugby CEOs, we would like you to vote yourselves and your salaries out of existence by voting to remove ourselves from Super Rugby thanks RA. - Hi RA, we are voting to remove the chairman instead, and please change your plans thanks, highly paid Super Rugby CEOs

Doesn't really matter why they are there. This Force/Tahs juggernaut represents us all this week

Pretty funny given the season they both had seeing a backline full of Waratahs and Force players. Super Rugby really doesn't matter does it?

Ian Payten reporting that ANZAC Day Bledisloe Cup is on and in Perth, with Super Round happening at the same time. Mens and women tests on the same day Australia and Argentina will be also be compensated if the NZ v SA tours go ahead, and SANZAAR will have to approve it...

A large part of this is Argentina weren't sending much pilfer pressure at all, and I think we were very lucky to regain the ball after the kick was blocked on the 14th and Koro had a loose carry on the 17th phase that probably should have been stolen by Arg. What struck me is just how little...

So I re-watched the famous 26-phase play from last week - stats below * Started at 15m, finished with a kick on the 42m. * Net loss of 27m. Korobiete ran back the dropout afterwards to the 39m line, so you could argue it was -24m * 19 one off passes from half, mostly to forwards. Almost none...

Yeah, for all his faults Wright has been pretty key to probably our two biggest moments so far this year, the try against Wales and the first try last week against Argentina. That is a loss

Currently paying $5m extra a year, and have apparently agreed to pay more once the next round of broadcast rights is agreed

I really don't see the point in this kind of thinking. For better or worse, we are incredibly reliant on NZRU to keep rugby going in Australia. Without regular Bledisloe Cups, the extra broadcast $$$ they are sharing at the moment and touring/development games up and down the game we would be...

Sorry, I meant the 2024 season was published in November 2023

@ Doesn't matter as much for SA and NZ because the tours will be sharing revenue

If RA is forced to accept this (and I think they probably will have to), they should negotiate playing both SA and NZ at home in the single tests in TRC 2026 and 2030

During these tour years, with 4 SA tests, it's hard to see there being more than one Bled as part of TRC. Maybe that's our chance. Smash and grab at home

Mainly because it makes for dramatic posting! It does seem like SARU and NZRU will be removing games and cash from the SANZAAR agreement and replacing it with their own ecosystem. Which is probably fair enough if you can get away with it, but is going to feel like pretty poor form for the...

https://www.rugby.com.au/news/sanzaar-partners-locked-into-rugby-championship-until-2025-2022215 New agreement was reached in 2022, through to 2025 after SA left Super Rugby in 2021. This does align with the current TV deal Separately Super Rugby Pacific was locked in to 2030, but RA and NZRU only

The current SANZAAR agreement is only locked-in to 2025, so same story there for whatever 2026 TRC looks like. Not much time to sort it out

Looks like our betrayal by our SANZAAR partners which was flagged earlier in the year is set to happen Traditional All Blacks tour of South Africa greenlit: report

Burgess played 12 in the World Cup in what was the 4th time he ever played the position in the sport. It's incredible

I always find it pretty amusing that people consider playing test rugby after starting only 4 times before that in the pro game to be a failure. Tahu's story is amazing. So is another "failure" who made the World Cup, Sam Burgess's. Anyone who makes the transition between sports that quickly is...

Kellaway had 1 carry, zero kicks, 2 passes and 1 tackle on the weekend. It's actually pretty impressive how little he was involved. With those number, it must have been an Argentinian tactic, to not kick to that wing. Jorgenson basically had no involvement either. It's hard to imagine that...