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Western Sydney has been a basket case for decades. The fourth licence should have gone their of this in my mind there is no doubt. It was capable of being saved pre WSW & GWS. More over the PI population had not at that stage converted to league. But the time has passed, junior and player...

This is what you get when you hide yourself on a US media company with no one having any real power to challenge the decision makers. Its just gets worse each year. Scroll down we are number number 18 on page five...

Killer, yes and no. Twiggy I think has people doing it for him or he is reading the same stuff I am reading, maybe both. What screamed at me off that paper article you posted above is simply by passing RA. Every bone in my body says to me a new major competition is to emerge out of this...

Killer I am becoming increasingly convinced the board is only part of the problem. The major problem is structural IMO. Most successful, growing sports competitions are run by those taking part. The US lead this idea, and European soccer has copied and grown hugely and will be in place...

The Newcastle / Hunter has 9 sides hhmmmm maybe 10 in its top tier. They have more players and more media than the Shute teams. The Central Coast sits between them. Dare I say the Hunter / Newcastle competition is in better shape than the SS competition. My guess is their would be more...

Maybe its been this way for years now, but I believe now we have lost touch with the NRL & AFL and thinking we can catch them is now decades away if ever. We are now in a dog fight with soccer, basketball, netball for king of the second level. Its looks to me Super Rugby within two years will be last...

Words cannot describe the stupidity of the then ARU board. The beyond sad bit for me is we have someone prepared to put some big bucks, and he is no putting money into an Australian competition.

Slight edit on the above The Newcastle Hunter Rugby Union now consists of 19 clubs with 3 Divisions as well as numerous junior teams (Hunter Junior Rugby Union) and a Women’s competition.

Not that I have heard, amazing we have close to 10K players and 20 clubs between us, huge local media support and we have been pissed on by RA for decades. I may have mentioned before before the NRC kicked off they wanted people to put up 400K. Newcastle / Hunter where prepared to put up 650K...

AFL hypes things to the extreme. On the Central Coast [NSW] where I live the AFL player numbers have fallen below 300 players. So much so they have to play teams from the Newcastle / Hunter region in a combined competition. Newcastle / Hunter about 634K in population the CC about 360K so lets...

Its written south of the boarder, and ignores the NRL & A-League, but this article is cutting and is all over the Fairfax press, read by sponsors and so on. Hype yes, wrong in trend no. Read and wept as this article tears us apart, and for maybe the first time in my life I am starting to...

Thanks for that. My comments have largely said I don't know what or how to react. My belief is we need to. I base this on the US study by the guardian above https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/sep/27/fifa-17-release-american-soccer-fans-mls There is a coloration between E-games...

BH Not in a long while so in relation to new games no.

Tex on your radical idea of engaging kids boarding the player base. How about we start a computer game that shows all of rugby's skills, and all Super Rugby teams, that shows the names of all our players, of all our teams, coaches and stadiums we play at. Think it might work.

In support of BH pertaining to the AFL have problems in developing an E-game, from Foxsport article is about 18 months old could be less...

he he ha ha may be but they will be running the world soon and that does fill me with cough cough cough confidence .

FFS no one said that. What I said was look at what is happening, and plan around it. An AFL guy I know in Melbourne who is hhhhmmmmm according to him close to some senior AFL officials said the AFL are in a state of shock and are in the process of appointing a working party to see how to...