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This is pretty much the reason given for why Koroiduadua only got 2 weeks as well

https://wwos.nine.com.au/olympics/paris-games-2024-100-days-nine-ceo-mike-sneesby-reflections/10816942-ca75-4cee-826e-1efcecc20a1b

It's worth mentioning that Darcy Swain got two weeks for his headbutt as well and Folau Fainga'a got one week for his. So if they are errors, at least they are consistent errors

I played almost all of my rugby in Brisbane until a fateful tour to NZ where we played a game at 10am with frost still on the ground. They beat us by 60 points. None of us soft Queenslanders wanted to go anywhere near that ice!

They should host Brothers v Jeeps at Ballymore that night, with buses running direct from Suncorp after full time in the test

I'm not sure, but my understanding is the central contracts appear under the IRFU books, not the provincial books

Any chance they just play the club games earlier like they used to in the good old days when there was a big afternoon rep match on?

Nine has Saturday night games during the end of the season. Something like the last 5 rounds of the year + finals

Does Jordy Barrett never get to play again after concussing Dane Haylett Perry with his elbow in 2020 Bled, resulting in a year long battle to recover and ultimately retiring due to the brain injury? I could get behind this

The Brisbane SA game would be up against St George v Bulldogs on Sat night This is so depressing

Presumably, they are hoping to sell more than 42,500 tickets to a Bledisloe

The Rugby Championship kick-off times announced. Some interesting choices made here.... (Thanks to Paul Cully and Christy Doran on twitter)

Apparently Manu was offered $800k by the Roosters, and Verblitz deal is $1m+ a year. It also leaves the door open to return to the Roosters half way through 2025 when they have salary cap space.

Just to add to this, the headbutt was assessed in the context of Regulation 17 For the headbut, the judical panel assessed it as lower-end striking. Which means even more mitigation than normal can be applied (how you end up at 2 weeks) In contrast, for McReight, World Rugby have mandated...

Same as us. They have provincial salaries and then some players get a "central" contract as well. In practice, it means Leinster have a much higher salary pool than the rest of the provinces

Six nations is such a river of gold. I wonder if Jordy Barrett's salary by itself will appear as a seperate item on the right?

Tackle school gets you one week extra. So he will effectively miss 2 matches

Doesn't mean that. Just means that there wasn't a recording that picked it up, and whoever else the Super Rugby investigators asked, they didn't hear what was claimed to have been said