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Are there any factions in WA Rugby? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That and pinning them back as far down the field as possible. The difference between them starting their attack at the 22 or worse versus half way is huge if our scrum is in trouble or we still haven’t adjusted to the breakdown interpretations. Discipline will also be a huge factor. Sent from...

https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2017/11/10/super-rugby-2018-squad-size Not completely explicit, but that is what I took from it. Do you know how far short of budget the actual revenue was? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The ARU are committed to spending the same percentage of total revenue on player wages as they ever were unless there is a change in the CBA. They have also said that this will mean increased distributions and they may not be equal between franchises. Now the senate hearing is over it will also...

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Close. Cox was broke and minority shareholders who would undoubtedly have been aware of what it took to save the licence paid the debt to prevent the ARU taking it back. Assume the ARU wanted a quick fix and a battle on one front so facilitated an inevitable Rebels transfer to the VRU to prevent...

Probably more it needs the interests of a group of senators in the major parties to be represented. If that group was WA senators, and it could be seen as beneficial for the major parties to look like they are doing something for WA, it would happen. There seems to be a hard done by at the hands...

Ok, but does that change the validity of my comment? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

About what. Any outcome cannot reverse the past and can only likely improve the future, if there is any change at all. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A cracking season, maybe going into finals, combined with the rest of Australian rugby hating us could be the narrative that makes the Rebels in Melbourne. Worked for the Storm. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And two Evans’. What about that 3 quarter like: Williams, Davies, Evans, Williams Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So you are trying to say if the Rebels folded no one here would carry on with Rugby and the game would fold? That is pretty ignorant and an insult to Victorian Rugby. Keep in mind WA is the state that continues to state that the game will shrink there without professional pathways. Victoria has...

This will be interesting with them due to play three tests in the next three weeks. I could see Scotland and England covering costs to ensure they get their matches as their losses in not providing the matches would be huge. Not so sure how Romania will go though. Sent from my iPhone using...

God you make it hard to support your cause. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Given Super Rugby contracts are ARU endorses I would have thought it’s unlikely, especially for someone with an ARU top up. Am looking forward to having two second string Rebels sides next year though - Force and Rising Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I believe flogging with a limp lettuce leaf is also on the list of sanctions, and in fact even preferred in most cases. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hodge played 50 minutes there in his Soup debut after Debreczeni and Harris were both injured. Scored 2 tries, 2 conversions, 2 penalties in a Rebels win over the Force. The one thing about Hodge is he has grabbed his opportunity every time and rarely failed when thrown in the deep end. His...

But based on what you quoted the ARU couldn’t axe anyone unless the broadcast agreement was terminated (not renegotiated), or it was renegotiated with payments reduced to a point the ARU felt it could not continue. As the broadcast deal was renegotiated for the same money, neither of these...

The legal argument is here: http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/nsw/NSWSC/2017/1174.html, but the point is that the force are gone because the last broadcast deal was renegotiated, not terminated. If the current agreement was terminated I would agree with you, but it wasn’t. In...

No it was this clause that sunk them: Term means the period commencing on the Commencement Date and ending on the expiry date of the last of the SANZAR Broadcast Agreements (being 31 December 2020) or, subject to clause 2.4, if the last of the SANZAR Broadcast Agreements is terminated or...