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Hey Fatty. My gut response to this is whoever has been nominated to make a call on "common style of play" has no entitlement to dictate how the Reds (insert your State club here) play rugby. On the other hand, albeit distasteful, given where we are I think I would grit my teeth through that...

This is also my knee-jerk reaction, but it's less clear as Bullrush appears to be an Australian resident who contributes to his local rugby world. All the same, I was a resident in England for 10 years and avoided pretentious Aussie argumentation like the plague. It's not a good way to win...

Bullrush, the domestic comp many yearn for is a modified Pro comp. Changes to our second tier. But you are being obtuse - call it 3rd tier, quality dilution, or "pink flamingo" if it suits. It doesnt help discussion nor change the thoughts of those who would prefer it.

So reduce the funding proportionally to clubs, development, grassroots, pathways, referees, coach and ref training, etc. "Less players" means less engagement not just fewer professionals. Ignoring ofc cutting teams means cutting states and in turn cutting fans and income. It's not like it...

I think it is fabulous.

That's uncalled for.

It possibly isn't clear. The term originates in description of World Rugby voting rights. Getting tier 1 voting is political based on your strength within world rugby. What is being missed a lot here, is that the term "tier 1" is alternatively used as a describer of traditional and current...

No, no no. The Kiwis also have a plan for how we can be better for them, you know, an Australia that is better for NZ leads to, well, a better NZ. Be thankful while you kowtow you ingrat.

There is little about the situation that is less than distasteful. Yep, I expect us to continue with Eddie and a new set of assistants. Assistants who will not likely be as strong now that the words "Wallabies" and "debacle" are so easily confused. Once again Eddie has experimented...

Cheers Bullrush. [Digression: my irritation through these discussions is the shrill emotive responses to counter thinking. Both sides of the equation, but without pointing fingers (apols) it is difficult to separate emotion from trolling where it is pushes by un-avowed AB or NZ rugby...

Didn't Radiki Samu drop off into the back row (from wing)? If Kerevi is only losing speed I'd like to think we could find a role for him.

Hey Dan, I thought I'd add to a thumbs up. I had suggested that some of the apparent NZRU thinking on Australian rugby was presumptive. It is presumptive in Australia to think the Drua would choose Australian rugby over NZ - even with the Foreign Aid rugby budget. Penny Wong is hardly likely to...

Hey Bullrush. 1. NZ will have their own drivers for their pro-rugby and your thinking is not an outlier - NZ is welcome to it and understandably will chase their own requirements. The challenge becomes when that self imposed restriction runs against an ability to field a professional...

According to one calculator, we finish the year ranked 10. https://rawling.github.io/WR (World Rugby)-calc/ Bring on the off season.

Sorry. Did you just say that the thing that Wallabies have relied on is the top pro comp we are in? No shit Sherlock. The question is whether Super is the right pro comp in Australia. And by the commercials it just is not. By the engagement and strength of the grass roots, it is not. By the...

It isn't the lack of lift, it is the lack of dynamism for Skelton to get airborne. When a large bomber aircraft takes off it needs a long runup. There is no STOL option. The jump is broadcast. So we do see it happen where there is a high likelihood of no jumping defence and when it puts him at...

Skelton is possibly one of the rugby players in the world, but his problem is the only role he can play is lock and his line-out input is limited at best. As an actual rugby lock, he is nowhere as good as Etzebeth or Retallick and the list of best locks has several others between them and...

Down-voting a staff member on a moderation issue. Ballsy. Stupid even.

The Wallabies have become a total diversion of rational funding when the code is in survival mode. Sharp decisions should have been made back when we were closer to the top five, wherein you would hope we would not have dropped out the top 10 through the rebuild. At this point kicking the can...

I suspect my thinking is a little different. On the proviso that an NRL buy out was not to subsume the game into League, how would the NRL admin and commercial strength be a bad thing for rugby? For some considerable time, RA has simply been a repugnant executive with little sporting...