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A 2nd team in each of NSW and Qld are very doable in my opinion. One north of the bridge in Sydney makes the most sense from a NSW perspective. Qld I'm not sure about but both the Reds and the Tahs should remain. Start with 8 but have a roadmap forward with planned future teams up to say 12.

Use something similar to what MLR does. The individual teams sign players but the players are centrally contracted to MLR itself.

I've got a twat over on the r/rugbyunion sub that trying to make out that the excellent ratings the Women's SOO (around 750k after regionals, Pay TV, streaming and BVOD) got is relative to the current figures we know about last night is some kind of negative for Rugby. All while missing the...

Refocusing on a domestic competition doesn't mean the end to us playing the Kiwi's. Just change the mode in which we would compete. We need to be looking for a greater degree on domestic content and opportunity that the current model just doesn't allow. We could have a say 8 team domestic...

I'm done.

I'm expecting professional athletes to execute the basics of their position and of the game in which they are paid to play. Which they are not to the level they should at present.

Jaco Peyper.

How can the likes of Pollard a Hooker manage to get this far in the game when they have clearly failed to master the most basic, core skills of their position?

To be fair. That last one was just shithouse ball. That was all Campbell.

Oh, you I thought you meant the teams. Yes, I agree.

Our discipline is pathetic. Our skills have been pathetic. Our attitude is pathetic. These guys should be viewing this as an opportunity to play their way into a Wallabies spot. Not one would deserve one.

So that's just not true. It's looking B tier because our blokes are playing like it is. You can find some really enthralling T2 games otherwise.

That was a bullshit call. But by fuck Aus A SHOW SOME FUCKING SMARTS AND HEART!!!

I think you're losing track of you argument here mate. You say Soccer isn't popular in NZ but like here in Aus it has more participants than Rugby and League combined. Domestically in both is certainly isn't a popular or an as popular spectator sport but that's all that really can be taken from...

I was more expanding on your point than anything else. I agree with you on both Burgess and SBW. Burgess in League was all about bringing a level of physicality to the game and I think playing in the forwards in Rugby would have better suited him in that manner. It would have also made several...

And Sam Burgess. But I think if his transition had been better managed he may have stayed as well. Folau only went back because Catalans were the only ones willing to offer him a gig. But as soon as he could see a pathway back to Rugby boy did he take it in a very Folau fashion. What I enjoyed...

It will continue much the same I'd imagine. Which going from the likes of the Tongan RL team doesn't seem to bother most. It's more about culture as opposed to whether you were actually born on the Islands or not. Which makes sense given that in there's very little by way of opportunity in...

Yeah, a lot of these blokes at the top levels know one another either through crossing over in their professional sporting careers, having played with or against each other growing up or for many NRL players having actually gone to school with many Super Rugby players and above. They also tend to both...

That also ran team actually just won their comp.

Tim Rapp is the man you're thinking of.