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So if "centralisation" - sorry, "alignment" ("don't put words in my mouth mate...") is the answer, and Ireland is the model... Well, Ireland didn't make the quarters (yep, valiant performance, top team etc, but all anyone remembers in 2027 is that they've never made a semi...). Out of the four...

It'd be both, wouldn't it? Girls Olympic Sevens based there, 10,000-capacity stadium for the smaller Reds/all Roar/NRLW?

Considering many days there have been 5-10 matches on, you're looking at an average of about 1000 per day...

Looks like 11 Roar men's games at Suncorp and one at Ballymore. Four women';s games at the spiritual home (etc, TM) and the rest at Perry Park. https://brisbaneroar.com.au/a-league-men/fixtures/2023-2024

I think it's there because of the broadcast deal with Stan. To get the Firsts televised on time you either have to have no extra time or build in enough time between games for it - which means you'd have massive breaks between games. Trade off with getting the matches on telly! There is extra...

About the same time the $15m debt to RA was wiped.

Rebels are not Victorian Rugby - privately owned franchise.

The Rebels have literally had more than $30m in support (pre-Covid) from RA - loans written off, Government funding diverted... Every other club lives within their means more often than not. The Rebels are consistently rewarded for breaching the salary cap and going broke.

Because why would you let Rugby Australia - who came up with the $999 limited edition RM Williams ball - anywhere near your commercial department? This is a hostile takeover of Super Rugby Clubs. There is some merit in "aligning" high performance, but what RA really wants is "centralisation"...

(A) Clubs make more money from semis, so it's a good way to back grassroots rugby (although it would be good if some of that money was actually spent on fields. Looking at you Brothers...) (b) QRU has historically lost money on the semis because of the needs to spend money on security etc (I...

Except the Matildas based themselves in Brisbane! Jamaica was banned at the $100m "Home of the Matildas" in Victoria! Walked past Ballymore the other day and there were soccer goals and markings up on the new back field - FIFA base camp?

Football Queensland is not the Roar. In fact, FQ hate the Roar and would like them to fold. And they wonder why they can't get any Government funding? The Roar are by all accounts happily ensconced at Ballymore and but for the lack of floodlights would be playing everything there.

It had the absolute shit marketed out of it. I hear Queensland Government kicked in specifically on marketing and the council did a heap as well off their own bat. I ave some old rugby mates there and there was advertising everywhere - bus stops, on the radio etc. Townsville people just didn't...

Tell me where Wests were supposed to put a third field? The entire precinct is Council land for a start. I agree with you on the turf, but the fact is that they built the clubhouse/stand for the money they had - turf you can always do later but it's pretty hard to build a bigger building once...

They're grey, not blue :) Don't fade as badly as the red ones on the eastern side I suppose. Would also mean a more neutral venue for Roar and NRLW games.

Hockings (a) ratted on his mates during COVID and (b) how stupid??? The bloke ahead of you (Rodda) goes and you do the same thing??? Would have been the Wallaby lock by now....

Apparently the backstory is that Reds felt Newstart lied about Kerevi signing in Japan. They felt they had assurances he (a) was staying and (b) certainly wasn't talking to any overseas clubs. They duly appointed him captain, and very soon after Kerevi announced he'd signed in Japan. Regardless...

Easy enough to do an afternoon game. It's school holidays. They'll be lucky to get a couple of hundred people to Redcliffe.

And the first game at Ballymore will be Wallaroos vs Black Ferns on June 29. Only kidding. Rugby Australia has decided to play that match at the Dolphins rugby league ground. On a Thursday night.

You know good way to rebuild a supporter base? Start winning.