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I think union needs to also not be so set on selecting just aussie schoolboy players. If you look at all the super teams, unless the guy has come via league it’s pretty rare that they weren’t in the Aussie schoolboys or at least the state team. This either means that the ARU/super teams have...

Won’t this be the case every year moving forward if they keep it on this weekend

Ground announcer said the crowd over the 3 days was 56,000 (didn’t get the exact number). Initial reaction is that’s a pretty poor effort but don’t know how it stacks up against other legs? Maybe it’s time we start rotating the 7’s to a different state capital every year to keep interest...

That wasn’t the initial question it’s a super rugby 2018 Thread

Well obviously not exclusively the fringe, use your head a bit. Sure we will lose some starters and some squad members, that’s aleays going to happen regardsless. Yea and that starter goes to another team and either becomes the new starter and pushes the current starter to the bench then the...

Well no, it’s more than fine to question the integrity of the decision but his interlinked it with the performance of teams this year, wether or not it was a good decision doesn’t impact how well the other teams are gonna go. And again theoretically the more fringe players from each squad will...

I’m sorry dude, that post made literally zero sense

But every team HAS picked up force players, theoretically making the squads they are part of stronger than they would’ve been without, even the reds have gained an experienced 5/8 in Lance and now aren’t forced to go with a rookie. I also think we will see a greater spread of players over the...

The English team seem to be really lacking at the moment for what is a rugby nation. The team had no x-factor, no playermaker with great vision, no wingers with serious gas no nothing. Their only girl I’d take for the Aussie team is their forward with the bold head, she goes pretty well creates...

To be fair I had totally forgotten about train strikes But yea still not great hopefully picks up over the next two days!

It’s midday now and the crowd is absolutely embarrassing, looking at it on the tv doesn’t seem there’s more than a few thousand. Really shows putting the Aussie day weekend was a stupid suggestion

It’s a hard knock life

I think the best way to do it is have a player pool. AR or whoever is in charge of this theoretical chequebook identifies the top 50-100 players for colts and then grade. These players are then tiered in two divisions tier one, say top 15 then tier two the rest. These players are then able to...

why limit yourself to people wanting to study though, if you're gonna go down that path you may as well just straight out pay them and get the best ones possible. .

Keen

Do you need him, probably not. Should you want him, hell yea! He is still the most talented flyhalf in the country and a very marketable player. Imagine Quade taking it to the line and flat balling to Mafi and Coleman, then next phase sending the ball wide to Hodge, Koroibete and Naivalu on...

Rebels have been the major beneficiaries of essentially a “no salary cap” for 2018 (which I’m pretty happy about) but I think someone needs to tell them to pull in their head and release Lance to qld. Similarly I’d love to see Quade released and head down to Melb

My understanding is that these types of scholarships are partly if not Wholey funded by the universities, not the clubs. All unis have EAP programs, but their existence doesn’t really relate to the discussion.

Wsu put hardly any emphasis on sport, cashed up yes (no where near as much as the other unis you mentioned) but sport isn’t a high priority. They have like 4 sporting scholarships for the whole university across all sports some unis have more scholarships for one single sport on offer Sydney...