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If he was a contractor, it sounds like he was expendable and they had a full time resource that could be redeployed. I imagine that there are 1000s of businesses who have also made this decision.

But he doesn't finish school until the end of 2021?

2024 Olympics?

There was also a certain amount of risk to go first. The NRL could easily have started and then had to stop again if a 2nd Wave had hit about now.

It is not great for their current funding model of having 4s and 3s players drink a lot of beer and eat BBQ meat all afternoon.

that's right. 13 teams means 13 rounds - 12 matches and a bye.

Hard to think what life will be like if we still can't play sport in 3 months.

Samo to be pedantic

I think so

I don't think RA have been given the green light to continue in May. I think they have just put an embargo in place for 6 weeks and will review in late April.

Gardner was in Europe for 6N. The primary reason for the change many years ago was to pick referees on merit not due to cost minimisation. This game would not have been regarded as one of the top matches of the week (1v4 in the conference). There were other games this round that on merit would...

Did he advise Joseph to take a rugby scholarship to Kings? Taking this path helped to create a bidding war.

The bigger issue here for mine is that if teams can't travel to Japan, then I would expect that the Sunwolves will not be allowed to leave Japan. The Sunwolves may have played their last game of Super Rugby earlier than expected.

At least they had finished school. Sua'ali'i is only in Year 11.

The 3 Australian Super Rugby referees plus Amy Perrett are full time referees. They don't have days jobs. The amount of travel required is the bigger factor rather than the quiet week at home doing fitness and watching videos. Last year as a World Cup Year, Gardner and Berry would have been...

The original reason was that the player coaches wanted a merit based system where the best referees were appointed to the best games. Cost was a secondary benefit that made it an easy decision to make and a now a very hard one to reverse. The travel demands for the top Aust and NZ referees...

Petaia

They have started training and are suggesting that they have had some form of re-entry into Premier Rugby.

Maybe he is not interested in playing that role. He could have come to the realisation that it's not something that he would be good at.

Waratah imports like this rarely end up at Sydney Uni.