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Having a chat with some involved there is definitely a sense of some people in the background trying to destabilize the Rebels and push for a better financial and resource result from the constriction of teams. Not saying Rebels in good health either. So many think getting rid of Hamish was the...

A coach that takes them to a World Cup semi, produces some historical wins and wants to stay on board. Gets replaced by a guy with no head coach experience, I’d go out on a limb to state because he’s the “correct” nationality. It’s just peak rugby and shows how it is so far off professional...

I think it’s an almost certainty that the Brumbies will fall to centralizing under RA. Economies of scale principle will dictate it just makes sense, plus they like the Rebels and Tahs are essentially insolvent in the long term at current funding levels, even if it increases to $5m it’s only a...

People do realise with the RWC coming up the Force and Rebels aren’t going anywhere. We are in the middle of a bidding war between states for different games and investment in the sport, money multitudes more than any club loss will acquire. They aren’t going to remove that, even if it costs RA...

Yeh this didn’t happen. Happy to listen to conversations around the Rebels, but inviting 8 CEOs story haha, there isn’t a corporate box in the country that isn’t filled with regular workers and senior staff members. In fact they make up 95% of all the people in these boxes. Let’s keep these...

From what I hear of the situation the Rebels and Brums are all reliant of the funding increasing back to $5m to be in a situation to long term cover costs. Rebels had agreed to hand the license back to RA where Brums haven’t. There is some itchy feet now that massive disruption happened from QLD...

Good appointment, very happy to back him in. My concern however is we are like this with every appointment, “just the guy we need”, “true rugby man”, “we need more business nous”, “ex captain”, etc. we genuinely think every appointment is amazing, which is a good attitude to have. However until...

I mentioned a few days ago that WR (World Rugby) are involved in some discussions behind the scenes, this is one of the many things they would have liked to see as they see Australia as a going concern. A few more moves to come but they are very worried about the direction of Australia and are consistently a...

Bringing extra credence to multiple comps and trophies to be played for over the season for our Super Rugby sides, just like they do in Europe across almost every sport. But the NBA just ran their first in season tournament to massive success. Tv ratings were very impressive. Let’s get the SRAU running...

Serious question but they were aligned?

Yep terrible in my eyes but might tickle someone else’s fancy

If Japan start to trend back towards t1 status under Jones. Can we finally burn the constitution and the state authorities to the ground? It would be an inditement of the Aus system. Btw Joseph did an amazing job with Japan but the last 4 years the game has failed to progress in Japan and gone...

From memory last year there was 19 players unavailable for the first couple of weeks.

Have been hearing that world rugby has Australia as a going concern and have been pushing hard for their guy to come in for that role. Has been exasperated with the state spiel lately, as even though the Hammer wasn’t a favorite they are concerned that the needed constitutional reform won’t...

Photos online showing both Gordon and Kellaway practicing goal kicking

Yep pretty sure he was an elite basketball junior that only started to take rugby seriously in his last couple of years. It’s funny how we think anyone near a rugby ball is automatically a ‘rugby’ kid growing up. Some might be shocked to find so many of our players have different sporting...

I don’t think Sua'ali'i deal has anything to do with this deal. You are only worth what someone is willing to pay for you. His market value is obviously $600k. From all reports we weren’t too far off this, so it’s clearly a decision on environment. He’s obviously more excited in what the Roosters...

Good luck to the young lad, I hope he enjoys his time there. As for loyalty I don’t really care about it because it goes both ways. What matters is professionalism, and as long as he’s 110% committed during the time he’s contracted then that’s all that matters in my eyes. Others may differ and...

Have been saying for a while but the overall health of the game isn’t in a great state. So many emerging markets have fallen away and many major markets aren’t in as good a health as they have been in the past. Look at England for example the domestic league potentially will lose another couple...