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Arrrr...... Koribete. Tiquiri, Sailor, Hunt.................

Really. Show me the increase in crowds and the profitable clubs/super provinces/ARU. In its current structure at best the ARU is the lemonade stand. It is selling a product that has a small static local following. No growth so they have followed the Fosters beer formula and have decided to...

As you mentioned previously the biggest issues are access to insurance which is a pre-requisite for access to anything further, which requires the sanction of the sporting body. As such sanction will never happen any such competition must take place under a separate organisation. Will the...

Lindo - you know that JON was a banker right? What do bankers tell us about fees? They cover "actual" costs. They really subsidise the services they provide to the customers who are nothing but a drain on their precious time.

Choice rant. If you actually read and attempted to comprehend the post you would realise the usage of "elite" in the context refereed to the top tiers of the game, ie:- Wallabies, Super and a referencing of NRC. If you also bothered to read the background posts you would have also realised I...

You like Bill have missed the point entirely. No club has any Tahs players contracted, few aspiring players or "rockstars". The pathway is very well known now, get identified as a school boy, get in the various schools sides, get signed to an EPS (which will get you a club spot where you...

The issue Barbarian is that those of us that post on Fora and Blogs are the hard rusted on core of supporters. Just like the Tahs supporters who stuck in there through the continual failures and the Hickey/Foley years of denial. It is not a good base on which to judge support. The...

How long do you "raise" something for and get no where before you say F%$$^& It. At that point you either walk away and find something else to do or your take what ever action you can. Maybe its at that point. As a person with no affiliation with a club or group apart from a sentimental...

Mate did you actually read what I posted? I actually mentioned all those games and why perhaps the timing is just a coincidence. I am the last watcher in the group of blokes who used to watch every Super game (recorded if in Saffa land) and every test. Some of those blokes as I said still play...

Oh right so in all the emails quoted by Zavos it was just four Clubs. Your so bent on it being just those four "privileged" clubs you are blind to all else. What about McBain and Hebert for starters. I didn't realise they played for a Sydney Club.

Maybe the timing is because nobody gives much relevance to the NRC final this weekend. I keep having to remind myself its on. As for the test, I am more interested in watching the ladies run around thanks, I feel it will be a better game. When has there ever been such a level of utter...

Who signed the letter? Its one thing to do something because you have no real choice and another to be "happy' about it.

Indeed.

Maybe that is in fact the end game, as I have thought for some time. A "New Union" outside the ARU and state bodies. Much more to this.

So the ARU is in the Super League position...... After the current generation they really have to keep signing the kids in school straight to Super contracts or buying league stars in middle age because there is no other development pathway. An "elite" comp/s with no feeder base and a...

I wonder if it also the start of a complete break from the ARU. I wonder if the Sydney and Bris clubs at these meetings will form a new "Union" not under the ARU. If they do I hope they run entirely amateur and release players for "representative" duties if called on. As I posted above if...

That's the thing mate, The NRC has a very limited following. I have tried to watch it for three years. Tried because I am a fanatic. As I've said I am the only one in the Rugby circle I know locally, which includes a couple of nuts still packing down in their mid 40s (one still at THP :eek:)...

No my question to you was what we can truly achieve. The NH has no appetite for change because they are going very very well and do not want to alter a successful recipe, and given how badly we are going probably the right choice. As for wanting to change the "product", you are right in that I...

Mr Cyclo would you think that the application of such medications by a medical professional which has the ability to mask the pain caused by an injury could have the unintended consequence of exacerbating the injury, or placing the patient in danger of causing permanent/serious damage to...

So do you want to play rugby with rules as set by the IRB (or whatever they want to call themselves ATM) or play a rugby version of AFL and then "International Rules"? As we are often reminded the game is in rude health in the NH and they couldn't give two F^%$#s about the state of the SANZAR...