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Do you really believe promotion/relegation will actually occur? Because I'm very, very skeptical. I see no reason for it not to be a 16 team structure with promotion/relegation from 2026 particularly if it doesn't include the 6Ns and RC as part of it. And even then there would be ways of...

Next year and may be 2025 but beyond. Once it comes online that will become very limited to perhaps 1 year in a 4 year cycle. Which is worse than at present. And from a growth potential it makes little sense. Let's look at Spain. As a Rugby nation it runs deeper in terms of players than...

To a limited degree. It will follow the money and that is in the NH.

And in RWC the schedule is condensed. So for many T1 nations they'll opt not to play anymore games than necessary. Examples like Aus A playing Portugal will be more outliers than the norm. Which is why in my opinion WR (World Rugby) should insist as part of ratifying this concept that the WL nations have to...

I'd actually find something like what I've suggested pretty interesting. You could split it along the lines of the APAC concept and Europe/Africa. In the APAC you run Aus A, NZ XV, Argentina XV, Junior Japan, Fiji Warriors (assuming these are the two elevated to the WL) alongside Tonga, Samoa...

During this competition the T1 Unions will exclusively play among themselves. The only opportunities for that to not be the case is during Lions Tours. So it could be the case of the likes of Georgia only getting games against T1 opposition once every 3 years. Which is less than now. And as...

It'll never happen.

And it's something I want to see expanded in the years to come. Whenever the Wallabies are touring up north it would be great if our A squad would play the likes of Portugal, Spain and other REC teams. Alongside annual involvement in the PNC (Pacific Nations Cup).

We could always look to expand on our Pacific involvement and sort of meeting that requirement by creating a Pacific Rugby Championship featuring our 5 franchises and the three PI squads.

Which is why I have suggested a transfer portal more than a draft.

Perhaps SRP (Super Rugby Pacific) could take some inspiration from College sports in the US. And I'm not referring to a draft as in you go where your drafted without much input. More the recent trend since the introduction of NIL payments. The transfer portal. This allows athletes to enter into a pool of athletes...

You're never going to get everything you want. I fully accept that. But I'm a little tired of people talking about grassroots but only ever going as far as the Shute Shield and to a lesser extent the Hospitals Cup. While they do have a grassroots element to them they are more or less the tip of...

Which suggests that his definition of grassroots is fairly narrow. Where did he start his Rugby life? Which junior club? That's what I'm interested in. Mine started over 25 years ago with the Campbelltown Harlequins. Back then there were only two options in terms of clubs in my region of the...

I'd love to hear his thoughts on what exactly constitutes 'grassroots'.

Playing in the Canberra comp.

If I'm reading it correctly those numbers albeit from a smaller sample size look better that 2022.

Is that confirmed? Last I read there was speculation that the French were trying to keep him beyond this season.

That's a pity losing Seu. Liked what I've seen of him.

No not immune from criticism. Has looked off recently but that could have a fair bit to do with all the rubbish surrounding his signing with RA in the media. He's still only 19 after all.

Kind of hard to single him out in a team that was abysmal and have been generally poor over the past few weeks.