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Agree KOB, and their sudden silence is deafening. Clyne seemingly decided to 'lead from the front' for all of 10 minutes and after his receipt of Alan Jones' intense flame thrower he appears to have totally disappeared from view. Skin transplant anyone? He did say 'we need to do a lot more...

Personally speaking I think it's at least arguable that a Brumbies-Rebels merger under Cox as supremo may well better managed than any outcome managed by the hapless Brumbies board that's done little else but deliver a series of truly world-class examples of how a sports team should not be...

BR, like it or not, the Brumbies have the best "Crony Count" of any franchise in terms of the influential mates affiliations within the ARU that yield up undisclosed preferences and biases. Everyone on the inside knows it. Look at just 2 points of evidence: - HC Larkham - having proven...

It equally could imply that certain ARU board members want to 'protect their own positions' and distance themselves from this screamingly obvious 'culling' fiasco. The corporate types on the ARU board are all experienced enough to know that this escalating fiasco makes the ARU board look like...

Blue, correct. The essence of the situation is that, for at least 5-10 years now, SARU and the ARU here have made their overwhelming priority the provision of vastly more rugby product _quantity_ vs any genuine attempt, plans or serious programs to simultaneously improve rugby product...

Dru - my apologies - the joking headline of that post 'You Couldn't ............' and etc etc was in fact mine for purely our (probable) amusement's sake. But every word of the quoted article were exactly and precisely Smith's. Btw, and no one's picked up on this yet, a highlight of that...

'You Couldn't Make it Up if You Tried' Instalment #16 SANZAAR MAY SUE THE ARU From Wayne Smith, The Australian, today "The Australian Rugby Union could be damned if it does move to sack a Super Rugby team, and damned if it doesn’t, with SANZAAR potentially in line to sue the ARU if it does...

You cannot seriously believe this rubbish and nonsense.....or do you?

Ummm, yes. One of the more idiotic and wildly unjustified by any kind of hard facts, performance KPIs achieved, or other objective measures ARU declarations is this inexplicable open 'anointing' of Larkham as the future Wallaby HC. On what is this 'anointing' based? Why must be this be done...

Though Rn39, the real, essential problem for Super Rugby here is that (a) the quality of the rugby play and skills on display is generally poor, and getting worse and (b) our win-loss ratios are awful, Aussie fans ultimately want to see wins and (c) Kiwis team have improved massively and are...

Roger Davis is apparently considering emergency measures for the next home rounds, including busing in 'western sydney' fans from as far out as Parramatta. The ones that have 'only just come to mind'.

Gee, thanks for offering, but I just don't think you'd be the right guy. Hopefully there'll be a next time.

Just to note: interesting that the ARU has at no time stated that the binding obligation for the Force's existence to 2020 as RugbyWA allege exists, does not exist.

^^^ QH, once the carbuncle-like shackles of the old/existing model for Australian rugby is dispensed with in mental planning and structuring terms, IMO really exciting, positive, invigorating new ideas and constructs emerge for how the game could be soooooo much better structured and run in...

Yeah, you're probably right. And there is just huge cost wastage in the way the running of the code is structured today. Until recently the QRU had no less than 3 'media and communications' officers. A c. $20m revenue pa business FFS.

If, in my scenario, World Rugby was leading a radical, positive rebuild of rugby in Australia, and the existing ARU was disbanded back to just holding wakes for itself in Sydney's top restaurants and Mosman bistros, then there'd be a very good chance the NSW and QLD governments would financially...

As my close rugby mates know, I've long speculated that the final big insolvency and related outcomes for our ARU would likely come c.2018-9. And, post that essential, radical cleansing, that the rugby rebuild here would be led by World Rugby and the NZRU acting in concert as these parties...

The 'give Graham just one more week/month/to season end' movement perversely went on for years. Many supposed, alleged rugby lovers trotted it out endlessly along, shamelessly, with the likes of Horan. Meanwhile, fans departed in droves and the QRU's financials went from adequate to deep losses...

Spot on Pfitzy. Those chickens are now all coming home to roost. And the idea that just changing the Tahs HC is the good-enough solution is like a doctor advising a melanoma sufferer to just apply a bit of disinfectant as the basis for a proper cure.

^^^^ @QH So much to applaud in your long post above (and too there are many other really good ideas re the future of Australian rugby in this thread). With your broad concept for radical reform of Australian rugby, with most of the Super broadcast income gone (some though would be replaced)...