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I agree with your ranty post in principle @suckerforred, but every club has to ensure their own survival first and foremost. We're talking about an annual loss of $400K (my calculations are earlier in the thread and on the Premier Rugby thread) for every team - that is ONLY the running costs of...

You and I might be thinking of different years- unfortunately there were 2 or 3 years in a row with finals debacles. I recall a trophy being taken from one team and give to the other too, weeks after the final. Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

The EOIs were announced - not the individual clubs but the summary data. I'm surprised there were only 4 EOIs, given that obtaining the EOI was the only way anyone could find out information. My sources are confident that no Qld team is putting in a standalone bid, and there are doubts as to...

I think that was Norths Jets.

They did a few years ago - a really lovely group of people. I can't speak to how far they were involved in club activities, but I remember they were extremely competitive and they won more than they lost.

Your wife stopped playing Jets. That's why they lose now. BUT A women's player did win the nude gift outright

TOCC I really enjoy a lot of your posts about rugby and I don't normally find much to disagree with. But the parts in your post about women's rugby just depressed the hell out of me. I think you have massively underestimated the young men who are playing rugby at clubs with women's teams, and I...

Are you able to explain the interactions (financially and practically) between the BJRU, QRU and ARU? And where does the BJRU get the money to be strapped with cash where the other two entities are metaphorically tin-rattling outside Central Station?

Is there a link? Or is it something that went straight to the clubs?

Groovy - thanks for that Jets. My information was clearly old (from 11 December, to be precise) where the answer to that was "who knows?" Thanks for the correction - that's really good news

Fidow and Cochrane are absolutely both at training. Both of them (and Brown and Wakely) know that their selection in Premier grade is up to Heeno. I've also seen Wakely around the club and I think Brown, but unless he came up nearer to where I was situated I couldn't be 100%. It's a bit old...

Scott described his role to me as an individual skills coach - he'll have a role in the analysis of the game but he'll be looking much more at, for example, why someone falls off a tackle, and rectifying it. Of course that will be a more difficult task since the ARU/QRU are no longer paying for...

$2000 match payment per game (RUPA set) 23 players in match day squad x 8 games No chance coaches & medical staff will be free if players get paid. Going rate for doctors is around $100 per hour - can be more. Field hire for training & games - buggered if I know Expenses around games- security...

Wow. Way to punish the successful junior clubs - GPS and Easts will be ARU goldmines! Incidentally I'd love to support any pie drives or lamington drives that any junior club does to offset these additional fees. Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

Is it a $200 per club, or $200 per team levy?

IIRC the Waratahs are to the NSWRU as the Reds are to the QRU. The Reds are essentially the revenue-generation arm of the QRU; any profits go in to the community rugby (participation) side. The community rugby (participation) in the game is the entire reason the QRU exists, and the Reds...

I think in Browning's case it's meant both ways. As well as being a schoolboy talent he's Dick Marks' grandson

Picone is Newstar Sports - could be called something else overseas but that is what he's called in Australia. Might be a conflict of interest where as a coach he's obliged to pick the best XV and play players where the team needs them to play, but as a manager he wants his players to be...

Breakdown - agree with you on the point you are trying to make, but I fear you have missed the point I am trying to make. Numbers come before quality! 1. No Qld or Aus schoolboy, or players of the quality you are talking about, will go to a club which had insufficient numbers to field a side...

I think they're hindered by not having the resources to support a staff member who can approach talent on a full-time or even a part-time basis but I think they have to start somewhere. So better numbers initially, good connection between colts and grades and some player retention their profile...