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That's never been confirmed. Outside of a couple of the LA players and coach apparently being awarded F45 franchisee licence coincidentally prior to playing for the team. Wonder if Darren Coleman still has his after leaving LA early?

The most a player can be paid in MLR is $45k USD plus housing and car hire. Most of the Shute boys won't be getting that. Most likely half that. But it's still an opportunity to earn significantly more than they would here while living and breathing Rugby for 6 months in full time environments...

As Fitzy suggests the participation side of the equation can be covered by the suburban clubs. Which is where I think any significant degree of investment should be going to support and grow the existing clubs as well as look to grow new clubs. From an NSW perspective, then an academy program...

Then, umm. What's the point of club rugby? RA would be better served in resurrecting the NRC and running it as a double round robin as a means of providing the franchises with a stronger pool of players to select from.

Geoff Parkes wrote an article on The Roar (yes, yes I know) about a 7s competition he called the Sevens Smash. While I'm not suggesting using the name or 7s. It did outline a basic format that would follow pretty much what you've suggested. Had both men's and women's which I thick would be a...

Something that has been argued in favour of club rugby as a pathway in the past has been the presence of experienced players who while not professional level provide enough of a challenge for younger up and coming talent to test themselves early in their career. They provide a talent base to...

Players like Poidevin provide a base for talent to develop around. They may never crack it here but if the likes of MLR targets more and more guys like them. Good club footballers while not quite being Super Rugby level then it leaves a lot of turnover that can lessen the overall development of players...

We need more content and more opportunities for players to show their wares. San Diego has just announced Syd Uni player Rohan O'Reagan as a signing and while not earth shattering it demonstrates a growing squeeze within the game on talent that we need to address before it become a significant...

Supporting a team isn't always convenient. Christ, we're Tahs fan for god's sake. Suffering and inconvenience is what we do.

One way or round trip? Because if I drive in it's a 1km 40min round trip to either Comm Bank or Allianz. Two hours if I train it in. Still have managed to make those trips in the past.

Makes for an excuse for not going trekking out to Parramatta to watch the game.

Mate, I was a tighthead prop. I don't get your reasoning. Exactly how would it fundamentally alter the game? The core element of Rugby is the constant contest for possession. That would remain in every element. Powered scrums, rucks, lineouts and mail's would all still be preserved. All that...

That's a really good outcome for the program and a reflection of their value. I really wish RA could come up with something that was commercially valuable built around women's Rugby. The Aon 7s is good but these girls are probably our most marketable group of players and deserve to be provided...

Are 7s or 10s like League?

I'm not suggesting this should be our mainline competition. More as a replacement for the NRC if it never to return in its prior form. My first preference would be to build out our own domestic competition as our primary competition but it seems RA either are brave enough or keen. Which is...

A couple of things. You don't think a format of the game that promotes free flowing play and ball in hand Rugby wouldn't attract interest? Because I do. It's why I supported the introduction of the 50/22 - 22/50 variation. And the goal line dropout. They sought to improve on the overall flow of...

And yet T20 has actually launched a number of Cricket careers. David Warner is a prime example. Literally burst onto the scene playing T20 and worked his way to the Test team. As I said in my reply to Dru. WR (World Rugby) has come out in the last month with a range of approved modifications two of which...

On your last paragraph. Specifically on the bit where you state that Rugby requires 15 people on the pitch. Well, that's not according to World Rugby. Outside of their recognition of both 7s and 10s as Rugby they've recently released a codified set of modifications to the game designed to drive...

I'm not actually suggesting we change the fundamental elements of the game. Rucks, scrums, lineouts and mauls would all still be preserved. The central tenant of the contest would be first and foremost. It would still be the same game at its core just with 6 fewer players opening up more space...

I've quite liked the idea of a Rugby version of the BBL for some time. I'd even like to see some tweaks involve particularly if it were to be scheduled later in the year. People will hate this but something similar to the concept for a Super Rugby reserve comp Pulver initially proposed. With reduced...