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How have these professional teams, staff and employees performed over the past 5 years? How many games for example have they won against NZ opponents during that time?

The professional level already is a disaster.

What will eventually happen is the there will be the Wallabies, a domestic professional competition, state-based capital city competitions and local/regional/subbies social rugby. This is not what the current administrators want - they want a continuation of the status quo and it's only...

They need sport, but they're being more selective about what they buy and how much they pay for it as their own financial issues bight. Most sports will receive less in real terms for their content as we move forward.

It's hard to imagine anybody entering into any binding agreement with RA, either long or short term.

Optus has hosed down suggestions it was close to signing a broadcast deal with Rugby Australia (RA) before coronavirus hit, and gave the code more bad news by saying it won’t be looking to acquire local sports rights in the short term. However, Optus Director of Sport Richard Bayliss said on...

I think you're being naive if you think whole sorry mess was caused by 10 ex-Wallaby captains writing an open letter. What we're seeing now has been 15 years in the making. Poor decision-making, lack of strategic planning, inflated wages for players and head office staff, profligate spending...

I'm here to save Australian Rugby. All past and present directors of RA will receive an all expenses paid holiday to Pyongyang as my guest.

Hang on a minute. I thought TEN were part of the 'good guys.' In partnership with Optus, weren't TEN supposed to save the game from the clutches of Foxtel.

Wiggs was also endorsed by Roger Davis. I couldn't help but Davis felt the need to make another intervention today in support of Clarke. Another black mark against Clarke IMO.

We should be sceptical, but sceptical about everyone including journos who write stories that we agree with rather than just being sceptical about the ones we don't like. That's what shooting the messenger is.

Across the board, whether it's politics, sport or anything else journalism long ago ceased to be an attempt to objectively report events to readers/viewers/listeners. Journalists by and large write opinion with bits of the story sprinkled in. Working home lately has confirmed this. I've lost...

And the intelligent reader can sort fact from fiction from embellishment. Every single story you read or listen to on the radio or watch on TV involves the messenger telling the story the way they want. Like I said, during the Link/Beale/Patston event many on here said that Fairfax and...

People here used to say the same sort of stuff about GeeRob. Don't shoot the messenger.

I like to dream

Or you could just negotiate in good faith with all parties and then go with the deal which is most beneficial to the sport free of any personal prejudices.

But interstate rugby was, i.e. the annual games between NSW and Qld which at the time were important in a rugby sense. Those games were never put on the anti-siphoning list because there wasn't the demand. The list talks of the National Rugby League, which wasn't founded until December 1997...

But we aren't supplying any teams, so on what basis to we get any share?

Let's agree to disagree. Your view seems to be based on plenty of assumptions and at least some of them are emotional rather than logical.

Well, that's your right to do so. Of course, if you eliminate a major competitor from buying your produce, you realise that the value of the product diminishes and you're less likely to get top money?