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I'm thinking there is something in this. A behind the scenes look at a dull preparation leading to a pool stages exit isn't going to attract much viewing. The angle will probably either be Eddie crazies or the challenges the squad had to endure. Or both.

yeah I know, I hadn't actually read it, I was just commenting on ignotos post. Have read it in the interim. I was coming back here in between tasks on a course I just started so wasn't entirely focused. Onto Australia Day celebrations

There are Rebels team (tribal) fans and there are Victorian based rugby fans - I'm referring to the latter group essentially but yes there will be less interest in rugby generally speaking in the state of Victoria. It's the pathway for the players I am most concerned with in this discussion...

No I was thinking more of letting them fold and then taking back the license. Whether that means the RA Rebels re-emerge or they just disappear is what I'm not sure of.

I think this is the likely outcome.

If I had a spare $100m floating around I'd have a crack. Unfortunately I don't.

I don't disagree with most of that BR. I am fully aware that in a professional environment the players are going to favour the franchise that presents them with the combination of the best opportunity and the best offer, and throw location in there as well. However, unless there is a specific...

I would be interested to know precisely how having a bigger organic player pool to draw from equates to an amateur era obsession. However, I was merely creating hypotheticals and this appears to be now coming to fruition a bit sooner than expected. So, out of respect for the Rebels supporters...

Kick em while they’re down, it’s a classy trait.

I wasn’t defending the bloke. I was merely saying his focus would be elsewhere.

He’s too small for a league center and they have little use for a left boot

I doubt he’s doing it intentionally. The bigger issue here is that it’s very difficult to envisage that someone could be going through that much financial stress and be committed to chairing a sports franchise beyond pulling out the board papers 5 minutes before the meeting, and then still...

Oh I don't dispute that. In an ideal world we have our own domestic comp. But we don't live in an ideal world, particularly when it comes to rugby.

Yes the upshot of that is that some games would have to be played in Melbourne. I get that not having one 'home ground' is an issue for both bands of supporters, and that both would want in their city. There is no simple solution but the objective is to grow the game in both areas, so whatever...

I don't want either to go, but what I was referring to is what you allude to in your last point. In the event that the Rebels are wound up, Victorian rugby players still require a professional pathway. They could just be scattered around ad lib but the obvious solution would be for the...

I still see this as a campaign to get the Rebels under RA control, pure and simple. The fact that RA allow Tupou (They pay his top up) to come south means they see a future in Victoria. There is absolutely no commercial sense in the RA trying to cut off (at a minimum) 25% of their market? Agree...

We are talking about 2 completely different things here. You are talking about a full merger of state/territory unions. I'm referring to an alliance with regards to player pathways/development as the catchment to service one professional team (in the hypothetical event that the Rebels cease to...

Well just look after your own as they are currently then, and we're both happy.

Regardless of that....so you're happy to expand the ACT catchment north to proper NSW rugby heartland, but not south to the whole of Victoria? (this is all hypothetical mind you)