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Who cares what the Highlanders have done in the past.

lol, this is the most myopic take. Let’s just actively kill the game here for a short term sugar hit

The coverage on Stan was a joke, the same old cut super rugby to 3 sides ran after the game. How is that going to help? We will just lose more and more players. Not to mention we will have less content. The game was poor, Kerevi has struggled since his knee. Donaldson should never play 10 again.

Get Donaldson FFS

It’s still 60-150m short of what we are aiming for. Soon AFLW players will be earning more than super rugby players. The average wage in the AFL will be just north of 600k

I don’t disagree with any of that. Commercially they are booming yet on the flip side you hear all the stories about the grass roots game being in dire straits

The issue with no more private equity deal is we need the capital to invest into the game. Without it we are going to struggle to capitalise on the Lions tour and WC. We need to beat the Lions, win a Bledisloe and win the World Cup at home. Without the money upfront to invest into player...

Yet you hear all the tails of League shrinking as a grassroots game there

This is the worst decision from Eddie, Donaldson has shown nothing at 10. Part of the reason the Tahs were happy to clear him. What did he offer when he shifted there? Nothing. The problem was White as soon as we hooked him we started to look better

We may as well shut it down now. If we can’t raise money to compete we will fall further and further behind. The game is on death row here

2019 was worse than 2023. What hope was there in 19. The majority of the squad was old and we had so few pushing through to challenge them

Rennie was trash

The whole point of investing is buy low sell high it’s a perfect storm

Will Skeleton as well

He was a dud who was rightly sacked it’s time to move on

And yet he never got results on the park, despite being a great coach, picking a better squad and getting the best of those players

Why, well there are many reasons. As we face cutbacks to everything why are we funding foreign sport? This is about to ramp out with funding of RL in the PI even though it’s only expat communities in Aus and NZ that give a shit about the game. I get that they also support humanitarian...

But prior to the 19 side the pathways have been shit for ages. I am not disagreeing with you but say France have been dominate for 6 years at 20s level. We need to keep producing those good age group sides year in year out then we will see the results

That’s completely different and a separate issue.

Fiji will do what’s in their own self interest. At the moment the Australian government is their best option but don’t for one second think if they get offered a more beneficial deal from a rival nation they would knock it back.