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Perfectly reasonable and rational option - but the tight 3 really is a matter of serious concern.

Very few nations are realistically trying to Win the Gold Medal. We should be one of them, but we are not.

Agree - how can a kid playing country Rugby Prop against a 6N international? - its a recipe for a broken neck.

I would love you to be right - but if you are... Why is he already saying that if a S15 Player on 4, 5, 6 or $700,000 per year wants to have a go at the Olympics team then he has to stand down for a full season? Why is he not offering a pathway, why is he not at least saying "we will look at it...

Do you get the impression the ARU has little invested in obtaining the best result from Rio? I do... I think they are of the opinion that as long as they get a team to Rio airport, that will be good enough... I sympathise with Micheal O'Connor, who seems to be doing his best despite the ARU...

What matters is how they trial against the other players who are SENT... how is it that some of the stronger schools in this competition are sending only 4, 5 or 6 players and Augustines - well, how many did they send in order to get 16 or picked in the ISA side? there is something a bit off...

in an only tenuously comnnected - but extremely important point, is the Lovely Cheryl Soon(?) going to be returning for Moscow? This would be enough to make me want to watch women's rugby.

I thought the Universities Comp idea had merit - but was pretty average... Compared to this one though, it looks like an equivalent to the concept of 'Gravity'.

I totally agree with the above Hyperbole.

well again - not to be argumentative, but the goal is very definitely also to build a 3rd Tier Competition which would significantly increase the ARU cut of the SANZAR TV deal - and to create an income stream which supports Elite Rugby in Australia - the ARU has NO choice but to find a new...

I am not a pessimist - but I can assure you that NZ are not basing their World Cup / Comm Games / Olympic Games programme on the assumption that 'miracles can happen'... Our ranking in the last IRB 7s places us pretty accurately in terms of where we stand

OK... So make the 2 hard decisions now... 1. Accept that it wont be a national competition now - and that such an ambition may take 10 -15 years... It can be done, but not done instantly. 2. Invite only some Clubs from the NSW, QLD and ACT Competitions to play in a Combined Single Comp - and...

I am not trying to pick an argument - and I have no doubt that your explanation of the 50-minute duration is correct - but it does nothing to hide the fact that the whole idea starts from a position of 'compromise'. It is a faulty idea to begin with - and what does it insinuate - that people...

Braveheart, you are right.... The ARU can no longer stump-up the cash for any decent option. (This however, does not make a stupid 50-minute option justifiable). For me, it is simple... Play the Shute Shield, play the Premier Rugby Home and Away as they are now.. - Have a 3rd Conference made...

This is the most foolish plan i have ever read. Who is this meant to benefit, and who the hell is this bloke representing? I trust he is not demented enough to think that any members of the Rugby-Going Public are going to give a bugger about such a concept... and through it all, he fails to...

We are almost out of time, already - Sadly, we are NO chance of a Gold Medal, and little chance of medalling at all, if one is realistic. Meanwhile, the ARU flounders in a Sponsor-less desert, and basically cannot really find the dollars any longer to run the game at it's current level. There...

Nice.. A surprising - but pleasing result... Not the Winner so much, as the size of the scoreline....

Goes to what I have been saying... What is the ARU offering" $12,000? I have no doubt that various bods from the ARU prowl these pages - why dont the ***tards speak up! Not here - through putting forward a coherent plan in the Public Arena. Pulver has had enough time to put something into shape.

I don't think there are that many Wallabies who would really make a successful transition - its a very different game, increasingly for specialists... Folau would be a real option - and I suspect that is forming part of his current Contract Negotiations (how it can be handled) Speight would have...

Why can't we? Because the ARU are crying Pooor - and do not put the effort or the resources into it that it needs... Given our playing numbers, Australia will always need to be better resourced, better organised, and just smarter, than NZ or SA in order to even remain level with them... I don't...