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Definitely understand this view; however, I liked that he could bring the perspective of a recent player, well and truly into the professional era and experienced the modern rugby landscape firsthand. The same cannot be said of the vast majority of ex-player pundits. Wonder if this opens the...

It's a loss to the coverage imo. He wasn't always the most eloquent, but I think his insights were valuable and that he was starting to find his feet as a pundit. I felt he offered something different to most. Sounds messy, be interesting to see what comes out. Wonder what it means for his...

Should’ve been sacked for this alone

The demographic has only experienced a ~12% swing since the 80s. Irrespective of every other way to poke holes in that notion, it's unlikely it's made a difference.

Has anyone been keeping tabs on how Lolesio's been going? (aside from getting embarrassed by flankers)

Long live GBRA's Ruggy Elsom

The Blues' graphic designer moved to the Saders?

No, but you can wait a couple to make sure what you rollout isn't rushed and poorly thought out. It really feels like this will be the final opportunity to get this right - half-arsing in the short term with a 'we'll fix it later' attitude is really how we've gotten into this mess, and it sure...

Unfortunately you can't push significant over-the-air software updates to a national rugby competition...

Many universities already have very productive partnerships with Union and League teams - I can't see there being much, if any, pushback from academic staff (regardless, they wouldn't be the ones signing off on it). The issue will be the business case and funding model.

Under the assumption that there's no contracting or structural changes for players - i.e., literally just grabbing the top club teams as they were this year - it's not really feasible to pull players away from home (and their main jobs) for a few of weeks. A weekly weekend comp, with a travel...

My understanding is it was all gentleman's agreements and handshakes between RA and the Super teams to allow some direction on player positioning, management, etc. to flow from above - these weren't always honoured if the club felt it wasn't in their best interests. One would assume that the...

Fair enough, but my point is more that not much can probably be inferred from Herbert’s use of ‘alignment’, as it’s been used from the get go

This is... actually pretty damn good

For people so passionate about their state, it's a bit odd that some are up in arms over their state's rugby team the state's colours. Rah rah rah, West is best, stuff those over-Easters, etc.

The ~$5m was nice though

Waugh kept his hands pretty clean, hedged his bets more, and made the right noises when it mattered (or didn't make any noise at all). Understandably that invited criticism of not being visible enough, but he's still tenable as a result.

This seems to have, understandably, been lost in the weeds a bit. Being close to defaulting on a $1.7m loan is pretty dire - can absolutely understand why RA wanted a closer look at their books

If nothing else, it serves as a reminder to under promise and over deliver. Hammer, like Eddie, did not.