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Maybe not all of them ;)

BTW, according to the ARU, beIN are only showing the Wales, Ireland and Scotland matches at this point.

Maybe, but I wonder if they tried?

Sure, but they do sell the rights to cover the Rugby Championship, The Bledisloe Cup and other inbound tests and therefore could include, as a condition, that the successful bidder has to also cover the spring tour.

So we get to watch that rugby league powerhouse, Scotland, playing Australia, NZ and England live on FTA, but no Wallaby Tests. Well done ARU --- how do you expect to lift the profile of rugby v league if you can't even get a possible Grand Slam tour on FTA?

No free-to-air TV coverage of the spring tour?

Does Australia really make money from Super rugby? From Bill Pulver's comments it sounds like it costs more than it makes, especially the Western Force and the Rebels.

I believe there is a place for the NRC, but I'm not sure where it fits. The SS should return to 2 full home-and-away rounds as the first step, and the same in Brisbane and Canberra if that is not the case now. Secondly, I don't believe Oz rugby needs or can support 5 Super teams as well as...

This is the key line from the article IMO: "prompted ARU boss Bill Pulver to agree to a summit of stakeholders to review the union's strategic plan." Objective achieved!

The canteen can always be moved :)

Seems to me that the main impact of the PP system has been to place restrictions on team selections, not which players go to a club. A case of shutting the gate after the horse has bolted :confused: Which is why I believe (as others have suggested in the past) there should be a cap on a club's...

Would Uni's new ground have been big enough to hold the crowd? And keep in mind the SRU collects the gate takings as I understand it.

As for the spitting incident, sounds like the perpetrator is a half-wit :rolleyes:

To return to the subject of the venue.... I suspect there would have been a crowd of similar size at Concord. The 2nd grade GF between traditional rivals would have contributed significantly to the gate and I reckon most of the Norths supporters (many of whom wouldn't have been born when...

Well done and congratulations to Wicks 2nd grade! UP THE WICKS!

Good point, you're obviously not called "Learned One" for nothing! It would be just like them to move the lower grades to Bon Andrews.

NSWRU website has a pretty good coverage.

Almost certain Giteau only played less than half a game for the Wicks just before the 2011 World Cup squad was announced (to prove his fitness). He then went off to France when he missed selection. Mitchell was registered with the Wicks when he first came to the Tahs. The Balmain registration...

OK, Carter's action was stupid and unnecessary, but pretty innocuous in the grand scheme of things. If it was someone other than him I doubt it would have even got a mention on these pages. I'm certainly no fan of his, but I agree with HJ (above) that Hickey's intervention is of much greater...

No, as per my post above, he's played twice in 2nds and twice in 1sts. I believe the comp rules say a player is eligible to play in the grade he's played the majority of the last 7 rounds or grades above that. Not sure how they decide in this case, but there's always the special dispensation...