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QC (Quade Cooper) will feature in the result, as always.

Got you but mate Stu Lierich in Brisbane would be a fine kicking coach. He's an exceptional specialist coach that, remarkably, has to get most of his income from consulting to overseas teams. I guess our rugby kicking skills in Australian elite rugby are just so good we don't need local guys...

It'll all come to nothing though if the QRU and NSW RUs don't want their ARU mates and kith and kin out coupled with these bodies' perceived threat to their own RU positions if the ARU board changed radically in culture or type of director. The interlocking system for maintaining directorships...

RY, my strong suspicion is that it is today, or recently, not so much a case of 'running out of money' by Cox & Partners but rather the realisation inside that tight circle of how far the Rebels have continued to fall commercially and playing wise and thus the considerable $Ms in investment cash...

Indeed, and that is why I have argued a view here that, sadly, the only catalyst for real, fundamental change in the conduct of rugby in this country will come when the unfolding disaster induced by severe, continuous incompetence is at a cataclysmic stage and the ARU is at or near bankruptcy...

Two other points I'd add: - for whatever reason, his injuries seem to have degraded his performance more than most, e.g., his RWC 2011 ACL vs Wales; after that his incredible evasive l and r step at the line never recovered its power and agility - and equally, when not coached by Link and...

More on the Elsom approach 'to buy the Rebels' http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/rugby/former-wallabies-captain-rocky-elsom-leading-private-group-with-plans-to-save-melbourne-rebels/news-story/2c83f2f7a0b0ebe0bfde3e58b56cd181

Turinui in despair, and who could blame him http://www.rugby.com.au/news/2017/05/16/06/16/rebels-turinui-sanzaar

And, if true, what does all this say about the ARU core group's integrity, their business ethics, their culture?

Quite so. These two have publicly stated that the ARU went to the March London meeting positively advocating culling an Australian Super team. I think on one recent occasion they even said something like 'don't blame SANZAAR, this was our recommendation as we've concluded 5 teams is simply...

Let's see if in the next few weeks the Reds and Rebels home crowd numbers and Foxtel viewership levels agree these two teams are playing 'skilful and entertaining' rugby. These are the 'votes' that matter.

Surely there have been excess levels of dew point (Cyclo's definition) in Melbourne affecting both teams' handling tonight?

This is really a terrible indictment of McGahan as a Super HC after, what, 4 seasons in Melbourne? An ARU hand-me-down post Deans - he's achieved nothing for the Rebels and that is precisely the same as he contributed to the Wallabies. And what was McGahan thinking in his recruitment of...

The ARU's supply of cash is really the core factor in terms of how much cash Cox has _really_ had to invest personally since the $1 he paid for the Rebels in mid-2015. He's had the ARU base Super grant every year then on top multiple millions in additional annual ARU 'transfer of ownership'...

If not perhaps though the US family that bought Manchester United. I think they have done rather well. But you're right re private equity into Aus sports teams - it's normally ended with lots of Kleenex tissues on the floor.

Daz, respect your perspective and team loyalty on this issue but I do think you underestimate: - the severe cash losses that can start to accumulate when a State RU's financial and commercial performance badly deteriorates. The fixed costs are very high to run a full Super rugby department and...

QH, I can tell you and gel that the ARU cannot even properly market and promote AB Tests in a key market like Brisbane; that being the case is it likely that they will have a clue, or the quality of marketing personnel, essential to the optimal marketing of the NRC?

Despite the farcical, almost unbelievable amount of serious incompetence, negligence, ludicrous legal fights, sacked CEOs, alleged illegalities, vast wasted financial resources, loss of good sponsors, all as induced or executed by the truly hapless, poorly governed ACTRU...

Must be immediately lodged with the Australian English Standard Dictionary.

It's encouraging to see the progress the Wallabies 'pre-anointed' next HC is making in his Super w-l ratios, attacking innovation and execution. Him being the Wallabies Attack Coach and all.