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They don't know what they want which is part of the reason we're in this mess. A good solution would be to introduce a marquee system similar to the A-League for which Wallaby-contracted players qualify. Each team can pay, say, three players their total take home outside the cap. Other players...

As I said earlier in this thread, the biggest danger the ARU have is if they successfully cut a team and next year nothing improves. Competition is dead if that happens. It'd reveal a structural failure of the code so big even the Twiggiest of investors would be rethinking their investment...

I'll take the bait. Notwithstanding the fact that the Force have now lost their major sponsor for 2018, financial viability has a lot more to do than just sponsorship. It focuses on your wider ability to trade so is influenced by future outlook of the company and the market. The financial...

Super coaches at the conference while Kafe is speaking.

Without wanting to further your agony, you also missed the final step: after every conceded try, have the dejected, hands-on-hips/head look that suggests you honestly never thought you'd be scored against.

Nah you're too nice Daz. The same could be said for Damien Hill towards the end of his tenure. You're right that there is a massive issue with strength and conditioning, and if I were Baden that'd be the first place I'd go hunting for scalps. However, Tony is still responsible for the overall...

If the ARU is successful in cutting a team but on-field doesn't improve, it's game over this time next year.

The other thing I would point out is that, given the appalling way the ARU have treated private Super Rugby ownership as an investment option so far, it'd be a pretty ballsy move for Forrest to put money into the system unless he saw it/could play it purely as philanthropy.

remember when rugby was fun

His background is important in the sense it helps educate his motives and long term commitment. The Rebels will tell you having a billionaire who just wants to help at the helm doesn't always work. Like plenty of others here I'm a bit suss that he's waited until the last game to make a...

I'll be returning from OS that day so will have to miss the lap - I reckon I've been on camera enough at Rebels games so probably for the best, god forbid my mug is anyone's last memory of Super Rugby.

Honestly I don't think it'd work. Not because giving tests space isn't a good idea, but because I'm 100% sure the ARU wouldn't advertise it properly and you'd get 20 people there.

I'd love to see some suits from Accenture line up in the local U16s.

As GMR says, everything's a thought exercise at this stage. The party line is that Cox isn't selling and everything is to go on as normal for 2018. We have no reason to not believe that from both his public statements and what a lot of us are hearing out of the club. However, if there were...

This has been the most frustrating part of this whole crapshoot. The blatant leaking of the good ship ARU to Panda and Smith. The gall of Clyne to suggest, for instance, that they had never floated an offer to Cox for the Rebels despite it being a news item for a month. Smith's constant...

Can't play nights or weekends.

I wouldn't mind putting Matt Preston in the front row. Calombaris would be a scrappy flanker as well, real handsy.

Not surprised or particularly saddened. Tony really added nothing to our strategy or style of play. For an allegedly defensively-minded coach, that was disappointing.

This was the first Wallabies test in Melbourne that I didn't attend since 2002. I refuse to reward the cruel incompetence with which this community has been treated this year by giving the ARU more money. If others have acted in kind (and I know a significant number of Rebels fans who have)...