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Out of interest, how can you say or infer so confidently 'the Reds weren't paying much'? What were they offering in remuneration for 2017 Reds HC? I'd like to know. Next question: given the absolute criticality of the 2017 HC appointment for the Reds, if the QRU was smart and strategically...

I could be wrong but I thought he said 'I won't sell the Rebels licence (back to the ARU)'......... ( http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/rugby/western-forces-super-future-even-more-uncertain-as-rebels-boss-refuses-to-sell-license/news-story/2da5e3ddf0ef8ba61681a388b16b7fa6 )...

Kiap, 100% agree and as I noted previously, I think these are the 'beneath the media surface' crunch points for Cox and partners that will be privately preoccupying them. He for sure will have calculated the material incremental $s (and shareholder and management effort) needed from late 2017...

You should be able to read this...

Well, a bit of a one in that as Smith noted, rumours were circulating that the ARU might be forced to preserve the Rebels and the Force given the legal processes and complexities recently revealed. But the ARU have told Smith that, no, the cull would be proceeding (with no defined timeline this...

Re those updates: very notable with all the pizazz re the RWC 2019 draw in Japan and related, there is zero sign of Pulver anywhere, he has barely said a word since the infamous media conference last month when it was stated that the cull of an Aus Super team would be announced 'in about 72 hours'.

Some updates: - pre today's SANZAAR board meeting in Tokyo Wayne Smith in The Australian reports 'ARU says it will definitely proceed to cull 1 Aus Super team' - AAP reports SANZAAR spokesperson stating that 'no announcement will be made after today's meeting re future format of Super Rugby'

In sport, in part, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, once the beholder 'belongs'.

Very telling point and made far more so by the quite humiliating gap v Aus Super teams that's opened up as NZ rugby has just improved and improved further the skills, fitness and innovation in unstructured play of its Super teams, just as we have slowly degraded in similar dimensions. Highly...

On a serious note, I feel incredibly sorry for the Rebels players and fans - the uncertainty and awful PR re the whole culling debacle and all that's gone with it would potentially destroy focus and morale in any team. And getting paying rugby fans in MEL is tough enough anyway, let alone given...

^^^^^^ @Reg Good to see us both competing in the sense of humour stakes Reg, probably a first I'd reckon

Is this thread a candidate for the title of: Most Depressing Game Thread of 2017 (Perhaps Ever)

Parochialist.

This concept at least sounds a bit more sensible than a silly summit: http://www.rugby.com.au/news/2017/05/09/06/39/aru-coaching-think-tank But talk about 'taking action at the precipice of disaster'.

I cannot agree with the word 'nothing' above. This emerging monetary imbalance re player salaries, local tax breaks etc and this general trend line have been known about for years now. If as part of a well and thoroughly conducted strategic analysis a major code manager like the ARU can...

NTT - to save rugby in Australia, there is no alternative to active, urgent centralisation in some form. You note some well-described blockages above. An equally large one is that the better persons we have out in the clubs and RUs very much get the need for centralisation however they...

He clearly needs better technical coaching re many aspects of his game, his holistic game is not developing and if anything is slightly deteriorating. Plus, perhaps too, coaching that is more psychologically sympathetic with his particularly mental profile (a key part of any effective coaching)...

All good reasons why we need to urgently cut back/out and re-assign (a) the obvious $ millions wasted in meaningless and impact-less ARU corporate overheads and (b) the obvious $ millions totally wasted via the large quantum of unnecessarily duplicated overheads of 5 Super rugby teams and 5...

I'm surprised that no one here has as yet picked up the clear inferences for Australian rugby of M Lynagh's very complimentary remarks above re the rapidly emerging quality of the England Premier Clubs' developmental, player support and skills improvement systems. He's highly qualified to make...

IMO, a good, thoughtful article by Russ Tulloch in The Australian, May 9: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/rugby-union/time-for-serious-players-to-address-rugbys-maladies/news-story/5886dd69d60a69ff899fbced1a51a779 An extract: When rugby became professional, the then CEO John O’Neill...