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It’s probably more likely to be something like that. I’m a stats man, so it was a challenge for someone to build a RWC type squad based on the assumptions I gave. I.e 32 players not including Bell, and the number of players from the respective squads given

Well not really. The default position is that the Tahs only deserve to have 3 FIT players (<10% of the squad) based on the fact they have been shit. However given Angus Bell is the best LHP in the country, if he is able to train and is a possibility of playing he should also be added to the...

If we use competition points as a guide for the initial squad, assuming a squad of 32 players and no O/S picks, we currently end up with: 11 Brumbies 8 Reds 6 Rebels 4 Force 3 Waratahs I reckon any squad should be pretty close to that. However, I'd add Angus Bell in with an asterisk which...

Fair enough. I've seen it reported, and we also know that the ARF is used precisely in these circumstances where the cost is beyond the realms of RA's finances, so I don't think its an outlandish assumption. I've also seen it reported where the amount of the deal has been disputed, but can't...

The context there was that RA wouldn't pay him that much money and play him on the wing, clearly it's a reference to the magnitude of the deal. i.e. the large part over and beyond that RA would otherwise be paying him.

I don't think anyone suggested that. The assumption was always a Waratahs salary plus a Wallabies top up, with the donor covering the balance. The language used most often is 'the majority of', i.e. > 50%

Are you saying that RA started to warehouse funds for JS in 2018? What those figures show is that Folau and Pocock went off the funding list after 2019. edit. Sorry, I see you’re saying that all the donor money would be consumed by the JS contract. That’s not how it works, they find someone...

Here is your post in the RA thread, which speculates the benefactor is fronting up with $1m of the pay check per year. Post in thread 'Australian Rugby / RA' http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/community/threads/australian-rugby-ra.12818/post-1400932

That’s kind of what I was alluding to as well. Let the senior players (say anyone over 23) go off and earn what they can elsewhere and still be eligible for Wallaby selection, and focus on better pathways and retaining the younger talent to develop the domestic pro model. Provincial teams...

i think I will just buy woolies out of popcorn and watch it play out. as we saw in the ‘where to’ thread many people can come up with umpteen models of what could/should happen and none of them will be close to the reality. However, I am using PWs proposed national club model as a bit of a guide.

I think NSW, Qld and a 3rd ’barbarians’ team works fine in the context of representative teams that play each other as Wallabies selection trials and/or a shortened SRP (Super Rugby Pacific) format. However, there needs to be a pro tier below this. I suspect a model something along these lines is what RA is going...

Tahs playing terribly. Pietsch’s try should not have been reversed though, the TMO only looked at the front on angle, side on showed it clearly went backwards

Ok well lucky canberrans. I’ll be at work, which is ironic considering it’s apparently national reconciliation day.

Long weekend? Is Monday a RDO in Canberra?

RA or Joe Schmidt aren’t paying it though. The benefactor was happy to part with his daily interest income to bring JS back to our game which is what matters. He doesn’t care in the slightest what position JS is picked in, as long as he’s out there somewhere.

Better suited to 14 I think at test level. They’ll put bombs at him if he’s fullback to put him under pressure and make him vulnerable to the brain snaps. Kellaway is safer and more cool headed up the back. The attack roles are so similar these days, can easily create a 2nd play off the open...

NSW certainly produces good players. Keeping them is our problem. Wright certainly having the better night out but as Tom says he has a much better platform to work from. I’d have them both in the team at 14 & 15.

I'm not sure if a run in NSW B counts as a Tah's debut. However, he was definitely on the radar, more radars than Eddie in any case. I think from what I read somewhere he had played in Randwick reserve grade immediately prior to being selected in his first Wallabies squad but was returning...

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If those blokes get clearance to play in the finals it makes a mockery of whatever rules exist in this shambolic competition.