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An aside for followers for QLD GPS rugby: Churchie supporters who loved our victorious 2014 1st XV will be smiling with the constituents of this U20s team......but has Reece Hewat (Nudgee Captain 1st XV that year) forgiven them yet for that rainy day on Main Oval when Kalyn Ponga (and others I...

Some good game highlights in the video section of the WR (World Rugby) U20s comp site: http://www.worldrugby.org/video/252487

Pity he didn't announce 'upgrades and additions' to his national coaches squad. That's were the real changes are needed, that's where, without changes, we'll be exposed against the best international teams. Just as we were so painfully exposed against England in 2016. It wasn't the players...

Isn't though a large part of that clear trend simply derived from the fact that this policy line - Force to be culled - has in truth been the ARU's preference and conviction all along and has been leaked heavily by the ARU to 'ARU friendly' media all along. And btw nothing seems to have...

Death by asphyxiation. Noting too in the context that the Rebels will be desperate to fix a better roster for 2018 and, I'd hope, their obvious coaching problems. Whilst the ARU mess has been a big side show and understandable distraction, Cox and partners would absolutely know that the...

You may well be right re the large exaggeration involved. But the core point here is surely this: the highest officer of the ARU made this key statement re Super clubs 'unexpected overspend of $28m' publicly and categorically. Is it true, or is it not true? A test of organisational...

Why has it taken the ARU over 6 weeks to come to that conclusion/policy?

Plus what about the strong inference in Clyne's statement today that the Rebels and Force had sort of pre-agreed with the ARU that they would accept a fast cull - days after it was announced in principle on April 10 - but reneged after that assurance 'when they decided to take legal action'...

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Thus am looking forward later today to multiple ARU board resignations and an ARU apology re the unnecessary damage and destruction caused via the 'culling process' to the fabric of Super Rugby in Australia.

THB - I have not seen an exact confirmation but my understanding is that a VRU-called EGM meeting will take place in early June some time, roughly 21 days after it was called. (The ARU stated its disingenuously crafted 'we want to communicate sooner via just an informal meeting of parties' was...

Torp - there is no doubt that a radical change in the QRU's entire approach to HC and Assistant HC recruitment and development is required and with absolute urgency. (The real crowd at Friday's game was probably c. 7,000 and this is QRU-survival-scary, as is the alarming Reds crowd trend...

It looked like sour grapes and diversionary excuse-making to many of us at the time and worse was to follow as Stiles has now committed the 'almost always correlates with HC failure-on-the-way' syndrome of post-match public player and team blaming, post match calling out individual players in a...

Indeed. The declarations and fake crowd numbers now endorse the smart humour of that post. More seriously - once integrity and honesty with stakeholders is lost or compromised in one area, it's a like organisational virus that begins to pervade all places and parts.

Just by way of one of many strategic inferences from your valuable post above: In 2017 it can be seen to be true: if Australian rugby is not urgently reformed so as to create and execute a viable strategy to make its pro-level playing product far more attractive to sponsors and fans (TV and...

Newton's law of the Rate of Ref Attacks After Australian Pro Rugby Games: The rate at which posts accumulate (and their ultimate quantity) on rugby blogs attacking refs' performances and/or blaming losses on refs' 'awful calls' is solely correlated with one observable fact: Whether the team...

That's counting roof sparrows, caterers, security, cleaners, and 'members that just couldn't make it'. I know Suncorp well like many posters here - no way in hell was Suncorp near 25% full for that game. Clearly the Reds and Tahs management exchange ideas re how to 'define our respective...

Anonymous Aus Super Rugby player talks to Tom Decent re culling status and its impact - very moving. It's reprehensible beyond measure that the ARU has not spoken to these teams - pathetically hiding behind lawyers' skirts no doubt. "Anonymous Super Rugby footballer slams ARU and speaks out on...

6 years ago there'd be 20 or 30 Reds fans still posting at midnight here after a home game - at 10:30pm tonight I feel like the last bloke throwing out the empty bottles from a party no one really wanted to attend.

Fans' 2017 Suncorp attendance vote-by-wallet: 'we don't agree with the above'.