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The NSWRU went for a 'one size fits all' development program and persisted with it , even when it failed year after year and hundreds of thousand of $$ pissed up against the wall. The only way it was ever going to work was to resource the sport in that area the same as or better than the other...

Penrith will be gone soon. It will be a sad day. The situation they find themselves in is not sustainable. The NSWRU will be mostly to blame when they do fold.

Can someone explain to me why we persist in competing in this joke of a tournament ?? Anyone got an idea on how much it's costs to run the Sevens campaign each year?? Surely this money could be better spent at the grassroots level rather than sending a pack of 18 year old in shit colored jerseys...

WALLABIES utility Adam Ashley-Cooper has declared the squad is throwing away the ''four-year building process'' attitude of years past, and is focused solely on reinstating Australia as the No.1 ranked rugby nation by the end of next year. And it all starts against the Welsh on December 3...

will these players be available for Club Rugby in Vegas and Sydney? Or will we see a new generation of players who are encouraged to skip playing Club footy because it is below them??

The Australian teams lack the ability to win because of the lack of experience of our professional players. For most of them, their pathway to a starting 15 (or 22) spot in a Super Rugby program is via elite schools, U20's, into academies (running around cones and lifting weights) and then out...

So what's the 20/20 on the new Super Rugby squad make-up regulations. I.e The CPS (core playing squad), the EPS (extended playing squad) and the new National Academy and how will the male up of these squads effect the ongoing battle of availability of players for Shute Shield (Club Rugby in...

Club Rugby is dead lads (and Ladies)....simple as that. Uni will segway off as some sort of 'Academy' in the next few years, the other Clubs will fall into a promo/relegation park footy system with Subbies.

By ESDRUFC Board October 17, 2011 ESDRUFC is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Bakewell as Director of Rugby and 1st Grade Coach for 2012. Mark has had a past involvement with Easts having played over 100 1st XV games in the 1990s and having coached 1st Grade in 2000 and 2001. In...

A RUGBY World Cup loss won't be the end of the world for New Zealand footie fans, says ex-All Blacks captain and 1987 Cup winner Sean Fitzpatrick. The legendary hooker, a Government-appointed RWC ambassador, said the Christchurch earthquake and Pike River mining disaster had put the importance...

Hahahahah yeh, i heard he was actually at the shoot but the ARU make up people couldn't get wipe the Orange Breezer smear from his lips for the photo-call

Am I the only one who thinks the ABC TV coverage of Shute Shield is about as interesting as masturbating with a cheese grater?? Papworth and that Morrison bloke keep the crowd on the edge of their seats, only because they are about to nodd off....

yeh, some great work in this thread lads: - scrum half can only go to mid-line of scrum (side ball being fed) OR can go other side and defend (last feet, not back the 5m) - if attempt at a penalty conversion is unsuccessful, then full arm penalty awarded to the other team at place of kick. -...

No disagreement from me regarding the popularity. Not one (Club) rugby fan that I went to watch games with or chatted to about (ARC) over a beer thought it wasn't a winner. It all came down to the $$$ and the willingness to take a punt on something that was going to serve so many different...

I went to every Fleet game. It was a given through the whole 3 day talk-fest seminar that the crowd numbers would be low. That it would run at a loss etc etc. Everyone was well aware of the financial model. A lot was riding on copping the loss, letting it grow, then Fox picking it up and then it...

The ARU HPU expenses DO NOT include player wages (academy programs, Aussie Schools, U20 expenses etc.) The $11,000,000 Waratahs expenses would include Waratah wages (the Annual Report didn't split up the NSWRU expenses, it was just Waratahs and Community Rugby),

Expenditures last year: - ARU, High Performance (academies etc) = $11,000,000 - Waratahs Rugby Expenses = $11,000,000 Surely if you pulled apart these budgets you could re-allocate this 22,000,000 to better develop elite rugby in Australia via the Clubs and a provincial competition?

Sorry, I accidently clicked post before I was finished. So, with the abovementioned plans in place. There is then scope (if Brisbane goes the same way) to start playing some provincial level rugby. Sydney, QLD, Canterbury (NZ) (not their NPC team, the level below). ACT can put a team in. WA...

The ARC was a great idea. But the reality of the situation sank in when Australian Rugby's longest serving accountant (JO'N) stepped in and put a line through it. The only way forward, taking all aspects into consideration (competition windows, funding etc) is to dis-band the academy system's...

Ken Sutcliff called George Gregan Greg on Sunday morning (WWOS).