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Assuming the ARU offers are fair and competitive; Place a definitive expiry date on every written offer. Once talks have finalised, allow only 30 days before the written offer expires. This should minimise opportunities for the player and/or their agent to use the ARU offer to shop around for a...

The main reasons players need a contract to play for their country are; - At this international level rugby is a business. - They are professional athletes who are employed by a business (ARU) that has rugby as a entertainment offering to drive its revenue. Wherever possible the ARU tries to...

'The old flawed draw argument'??? It's only been in for a single season and it favoured the bottom 6 teams. Parramatta's quest for a 2012 semi-final spot was helped by this favourable draw, No Ifs, No Buts, fact. In 2012 the Shute Shield became the Shute Handicap.

That comparison is cruel and unfair to f@#wits.

McCall, Carmichael & McKenzie. I'm not 'in the tent' but my thoughts are that Quade would have toed the line with these 3 guys over his head. Horwill and Genia don't give off the impression that they'd suffer fools lightly either.

A career opportunity beckons for Quade & SBW to work together. They love going to the movies together. They can become the OZ movie critic versions of Siskel & Ebert.

Could be the worst Lions team to ever visit our shores.

Despite all the energy on both sides of the argument I think that most people will honestly feel deprived that they won't get the chance to see if he could have come back from his injuries and RWC disappointment to become a great player. The guy could do some amazing things (on the field) and as...

To retain our best Wallabies, the ARU are competing with European and Japanese Rugby, and in some instances other local sports, rugby league and to a lesser degree AFL. To quote from a great Aussie movie, "You're dreaming" if you think we'll be competitive offering Wallaby stars a contract based...

100% agree TH. If it were a 3-course meal he was after, at this stage he's only going to get 2 courses, entree (Japan Rugby) and dessert (Boxing). Rugby was his main course, so it will be interesting to see where he gets his main feed from. If he doesn't land something, he could be eating dates...

I don't know, just like the overwhelming majority of contributors to this thread. My opinion is that he and his management haven't handled the situation very well at all. The point I was making is that there seems to be a man management issue within the Wallabies. Does anyone think Kobe Bryant...

What the Cooper saga has confirmed is the ARU and Wallabies apparent inability to man manage their players. No idea who is at fault between O'Neill, Nucifora, Deans or others, or the players themselves, BUT the list of disenchanted players keeps getting longer. Whether it's been in camp, on...

Guys, the ARU don't have any money. Yes the Lions Tour will bring in some $$$ but overall their finances are woeful. The ARU cannot sustain huge payments to the Wallabies based on their current or forecasted financials.

Definition of "Remarkable" - worthy of attention. Yep, what he's achieved this year is absolutely and definitely worthy of attention.

3. Hooper 2. Cummins 1. Palu HM - Dennis & Alexander DM - Phipps

Yes he caught a few high balls but it's a sad situation when a guy does what he's supposed to do and we get excited about it. He's a paid professional player and countless fullbacks over the years have done what he did last night, week in week out without fans getting too excited. It's reached a...

Please leave the ref's sexual antics out of it HJ.

Good luck getting in without any pants on Bryce.

Spot on Loki74, he waffles, he dribbles, says a whole lot of nothing and then pulls that stupid Dodo bird grin and nods. How does he motivate and inspire professional athletes into a confrontational physical battle? Would you want to play for him? The greatest coaches are more respected than...

Gosper's tweet wasn't a clever thing to do. All it does is place pressure on him to consistently tweet about everything as relatively important to the game, as this incident. On that scale he'll have RSI of his thumbs, because that's all he'll have time for. He can't win here. If he tweets...