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Perhaps Rodda's sole motivation was/is to exit the Reds. It's notable that so many posters here instantly blame these 3 'rebels' and Picone (whom btw had others of his player clients sign up to the RUPA cuts) vs at least considering the possibility that the QRU's long, utterly...

You missed perhaps the most truthful bit of all, quoting Cheika: This has been the fatal, ill-considered driver - repeatedly prioritising $ income and thus 'quantity of teams to sell in TV hours' over: quality of rugby played, the real depth or otherwise of adequate player talent to match the...

Latest CM media on all this states that Rodda wants to go to the Brumbies and is in active discussions with them.

In my experience as an ex-CEO (main focus was restructuring organisations for greater growth and profitability), and having a reasonable idea of the revenue type and make up for RA's revenue and its core tasks, and ditto re the local RUs, I consider that the following Aust-wide pre-COVID-19...

Re the important highlighted - all those now bemoaning the 'inevitable death of unsustainable Aust pro rugby' simply have not done a rigorous-enough analysis of the potential pro rugby pro-forma P&L _if and only if_ (a) the cost base of running it is drastically reshaped, which it absolutely...

Just a sideways btw: if Ryan's services were provided by his own incorporated services company that employed him, and he provided his services to the QRU (or others) via it, then he could obtain many of the COVID-driven 'subsidy' benefits both the QLD and national governments have been...

When Aust rugby reduces the absurd level of functional 'back end' head count and $ cost duplication that exists across the 4 local RUs and within RA itself - a no-brainer strategic action post COVID-19 and long overdue pre it - then maybe we will free up the budgets required for what should be...

That may be the case, but, respectfully, so what. 'Big numerical majorities' per se do not in any sense always equal the best or 'right' or only legitimate perspective (esp when viewed in hindsight), or necessarily the smartest one. People often tend to move in herds and group think is real...

But rugby life here in Australia will soon be very, very different. I'm surprised that few posters here have stopped to consider the possibility that, indeed, come later in 2020, these 3 guys might just be seen as amongst the smartest in the room. At least as far as medium-term income and...

The best thing McLennan’s said so far is that he’s prepared to seriously innovate the entire comp structure and change the ‘rules’ to make the Aust version of rugby more media/fan friendly. And he possesses a credible, personal track record of having done something similar with cricket here...

No RA Chairpersons than, respectively, Hawker and Clyne, could ever, ever be worse than them. They defined the very principle of ‘what not to do, but just do it anyway’. My faith in the human genome’s proven capacity for positive evolution assures me that, statistically, we cannot have a third...

Go back and read the boards on here years back re Tom Carter He was a global epicentre of rugby passion, for or against There was so much more unquestioning love of the game then, TC a talisman of it all The boys we ‘loved to hate’ were almost the best part Hundreds and more hundreds of...

100%. NRC was a weird, ill-conceived love child of nothing very much. It was attached to nothing meaningful in tribal land. NSWRU never even got behind it, was just one problem. The teams were made-up synthetic and rooted neither in Super or Club IDs of old and micro-cultures of old. Filled with...

Yes, sorry dru, I just wanted to emphasise agreement and again draw out the essentials. And the latest New Black amongst some of the GAGR mods here is that 'pro rugby in Australia is likely dead and buried and intrinsically unsustainable as it has been for 20 or years', and I just think...

dru, IMO there is no intelligent, fact-driven basis to say that a purely domestic pro rugby competition in Aust 'simply cannot work and be made economically viable'. There is every fact-driven basis to say that almost any version of the stale, outmoded and unpopular Super Rugby quad...

I like you thinking OC, but not on this point of debate, in that: - France has a population of 67m - There is there no winter NRL and AFL and soccer all as a bundle of football codes creating massive winter code competition in our popn of 23m - Most of the French rugby teams are dominated by...

Just btw: the notion that pro rugby is 'dead and doomsdayed' in Australia is utterly misguided and mythical. Add the total $s _that still today_ flow into Aust pro rugby just from game-day and sponsorship at Wallaby and Super levels and there is absolute economic viability there provided: -...

Hugely - the ugly duckling that Super Rugby had become - perpetuated and not corrected as yet by RA - is the biggest single contributor IMO to the degraded state (in multiple respects) of Aust pro rugby today. Remembering that late last year RA was happy to sign off on a only a marginally...

Indeed. Perhaps the gravest error of unthinking hubris and dangerously poor strategic policy in Aust rugby's recent history was the JO'N-fed notion that 'Aust rugby must have a national footprint' and 'the quantity of pro rugby played each week matters or is a high priority' (even at the expense...

Yes, in principle. I've said before in some 2-way debate here with @mst that in a much slimmed-down and better run rugby domestic pro comp I think a conceptually viable media model for RA could be a combo of (a) some FTA interest re all-of-code broadcasting for select games and time slots with...