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tough gig I reckon being a commentator for club rugby on Stan. job is a lot easier when you have a partner, someone doing colour commentary. 80+ minutes solo of nothing but play by play and colour commentary in the play stoppages is hard work.

PLEASE NOTE: elaborating my point - i was assuming English premier league and not the cricket premier league. original point was French rugby being the pinnacle of rugby comps a pro player could reach (which is not true) the Japanese top league would like a word. every man and his dog hoops...

this is unfair to take a crack at centralization because so far it’s essentially a player option about which team they’d like to play next season to fulfil their commitments to RA contract. a lot of sooking and moaning by force, brumbies and tahs fans meanwhile there’s a bunch of rebels players...

Off topic but elaborating your point - NBA is the most global sports league on the planet. in regards to premier league, it’s not the quintessential soccer league as there’s a bunch of other leagues so the talent is dispersed between some powerhouse clubs playing in a mixture of different...

Mason Gordon playing for the reds this weekend versus Wales. That’s a handy inclusion, hoping he lands with the Reds for 2025 and beyond

Matt gibbon too

one thing that needs be factored in about cost of living comparing Melbourne to Sydney is the traffic of victorians to Brisbane I imagine is rather higher then Melbourne to Sydney. I suspect some Brisbane players might have been staying with relatives when in Melbourne. Happy to be proved...

Looks like the reds might be holding out their players from club rugby due to the Friday game vs wales. im not seeing the star power in team lists that was named last week across the comp.

What a clusterfuck centralisation will be if RA is running the program. I think urgent meeting needs be had with player agents, player unions to discuss future or RA contracts. always thought a trade system like you see in the nba or nfl would need a trade clause kicker… say you sign a 3 year...

Suburban clubs for semi and prelim finals means you don’t need to pay a cover charge - Ballymore they’d charge an entrance fee. Unsure how I feel either way. Suburban club means you got better chance of friends and families coming along for the free entertainment but if you finish top 4 -...

The whole scenario sucks. I heard Eloff might be relocating back to Africa (this is after all the years he has put in being super close to Australian wallabies qualification) why haven’t the Tahs offered this young gentlemen a contract? (Perhaps they have) - I’m generally interested to see who...

there could be - but some cart before the horse signing strategy going on here with the contracted players being locked in first then the other rebels players wit no contract waiting for dominos to fall.

Maybe not good enough now but what about in 4 years time? we just going to let these players leave and their development now happens in pro rugby in France of Japan (there’s no development opportunity in Aus) these players are now suspect from a international test rugby raid due to newly earned...

hypothetically - what do you think happens to the blues/Nz in that scenario. I’ll tell you what happens. The all blacks end up on the 4 other super rugby teams. A couple of young development players too… but a good proportion of players heads overseas because there’s only so many super rugby...

Excuse me?

Manly is correct. His Wikipedia page says he played for the Manly Roos junior club. the stint at wests was when his old man relocated to Queensland selling photocopiers and it was a short lived stay as the hoppers relocated back to Sydney

What primary school did he play rugby union for? the Len Ikitau Wikipedia page isn’t that in depth. If he did indeed have junior rugby club then the wallabies clubs on team list is a nomination and not a club rugby debut like we’ve all been suspecting

that’s what I found. RL background but no alignment to any Brisbane junior rugby club.

What junior clubs did Noah and Len play for? i can’t locate any info in regards to this. Their careers seem to start once they played schoolboy rugby

The rebels were cut for financial reasons. I don’t think any reduction in teams/player pools increases competition or depth. a hard decision was made by Rugby Australia and some ppl still want to put lipstick on the pig