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It's clear that Waugh's approach is the polar opposite to McLennan's, so I don't see any issue with him serving up bland quotes for the media. He managed Eddie out the door and brought in Schmidt without getting into media slanging matches. Fine by me.

The article from Tom Decent in the SMH (marked as 7:45pm) seems relatively positive - I'm not sure there's any new information really, but it does talk about "precautionary scans" and that he's likely to miss multiple matches. I'm taking that as a positive, given what it might have been.

Eastwood don't seem to want to provide a whole lot of detail on this, but I think they sold the land to North Ryde RSL previously, but with the condition that they wouldn't get the money until re-development started. Ryde Council has blocked that development, and the Council wants to acquire the...

This is good, though I suspect with the earlier publication of teams, we'll see some more bracketing of players, or "TBC", either due to injuries or coaches wanting to obfuscate.

I'm not sure ESPN could justify running independently in Australia, I'm not sure it would have any big draws - all the big sports are elsewhere. But conversely, it's very handy for Kayo, in providing a lot of other content. I had ESPN for years through Optus and Fetch, and it was probably best...

Conversely, the BBL has just finished a season that was shorter than the last couple of years, and drew pretty solid crowds.

So...business as usual? If RA have only had one sponsorship opportunity rejected, they're not trying hard enough. There's not many teams across any code that don't need to get out there and ask for sponsorship, it doesn't come on a silver platter. Do we get regular reports on how many...

Interesting decision in the Scotland-Wales 6 nations game - one of the Scottish players made contact with a Welsh player's head as the Welsh player made a tackle and the Scottish player looked to drive his player forward, or start the cleanout of the tackler. Unclear whether initial contact was...

It seems like a perfectly reasonable approach to me. And yes, RA should be making this decision. Selection of head and assistant coaches for the Super franchises should absolutely be done with central input, it's a critical element of developing coaching pathways in Australia.

That story about the A-Leagues is grim reading. I thought rugby could burn money, but that's next level. They've basically taken the investment from PE, burned it, and are now in the same position, except they're giving away 33% of every dollar they earn to SilverLake.

Supposedly, one of Eddie's gripes with RA was that they'd promised more progress on centralisation than they had delivered. At the time, it seemed like crap. But maybe that announcement a few months ago was partially to soothe Eddie and to try to push the process along, without the appropriate...

Wamby, I think this has been discussed before, but - how many international coaching jobs aren't about walking into a sh*tstorm? Very few coaches get to walk into a high-functioning, successful program - coaches get appointed because the previous coach got the boot.

The response to Schmidt is so positive, Marto knew he'd hit the headlines by being the only person to whinge about it. Or at least getting in before Campo.

Still incomprehensible to me that a new Gabba will cost even $2 billion.

Waratahjesus checks in!

7 and 9 will fight hard to retain the big local sports, they are critical assets for the broadcast networks. And also for Fox/Kayo. So it will need to be a big jump for the overseas streamers - and money is not quite as easily available for them now. But you'd think it would have to happen at...

Teams could definitely be smarter about advantage under the current laws. Given the amount of analysis available to them, they must surely have a good idea of when they're likely to actually gain advantage. But for many teams, it doesn't seem like there's a decision being made - they just plug...

On an unrelated topic, I wonder if MLR might try a bit of guerilla marketing at the NRL's season opener in Las Vegas - the Yanks just think it's all "rugby", after all.

He wanted a longer contract last year, but RA would only give him 1 year. But it's up to him to show the loyalty now?

A good chuckle when the commentator wrongly identified Teagan as Maddison and celebrated her breaking the try record as Teagan was scoring, recognised the error, and admitted that the younger sister would be livid about it.