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You sure?........and if so at what price? If you are right, and the price for that buy-back is a moderate one, and assuming the ARU after bailing out the Force wanted to keep proper control over its acquisition of them, then such a clause would be beyond stupid as in a scenario wherein the...

Can you imagine if Wikileaks did a number on the ARU's emails and core files. I suspect most of the board and senior management would be gone within days.

Astute post Blue. This is one of the attributes of Foxtel's attitude to covering the code here that I find contemptible and more importantly against the code's real interests. Namely the overwhelming and obvious editorial policy in their rugby coverage to be 'positive and upbeat' regarding...

What everyone should be awaiting and listening out for just prior to KO is the carefully considered assessment by Kafer or Horan as to 'greasy conditions', 'dew on the ground', 'quite humid in Brisbane today', 'bit of moisture in the pitch' and all such like as these vital inputs will provide...

The trend is the same at the Reds, and these crowd figures for the Tahs are scary bad (in terms of both the Tahs financial and commercial situation and in terms of fan adherence levels)...

Yes, another ridiculous and unconscionable allowance to JO'N when he was re-signed in 2011 (as per my post) for 'continuity and commitment'. Oh, but now he can be 'committed' to another organisation as well as the ARU without diminution of his contact terms from the ARU! I was just aghast at...

Nah. There was much more to it than that. Just one example of the 'ego gone wild' that was JO'N Mk II and that ultimately contributed to JON's demise in 2012. When in April 2011 JO'N engineered the quite remarkable contractual re-signing of Deans for another 3-4 years (even though he had...

I'm quite sure it's the legal preparations and machinations that are preoccupying the ARU. Before Clyne totally disappeared from view - after his infamous declaration that 'we must do more communicating (as the ARU)' - he referenced something along the lines of how careful he needed to be as...

'Interesting' Reds-Tahs clash recent crowd trends from Courier Mail yesterday: Queensland Reds banking on interstate clash to draw massive crowd Jim Tucker, The Courier-Mail April 26, 2017 THE Reds are desperately shooting for their first 20,000-strong crowd since 2015 to rev up Saturday...

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'Governance'........and so on Very amusing; at long last the ARU assembles, in the midst of its own breaking storm, a momentary sense of humour.

Hell mate, arguing re that for 30 years would be enough to kill any man or beast! There has been so much of it to go around. 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger'; I guess that phrase is apposite today. half, I'd just like to say: - many of your pieces here really inspired and moved...

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Especially as their own 'ability and willingness for cultural reform' of, in the first instance, themselves, has been zero.

Australian rugby 2017-version: Every bastard thinks they're better than they really are, and every bastard puts their hate of some other bastard ahead of figuring out how to properly save themselves, in partnership or otherwise.

Which just goes to show how corporately egotistical, strategically foolish and out of touch with reality they are. In the medium-term, the ACTRU/Brumbies is actually the most exposed and financially and commercially vulnerable of all the RU franchisees. They'd be very wise to at least give...

My own view FWIW is that Cox's biggest want-to-get out of this whole culling process is bigger and longer term cash subsidies from the ARU. For sure the 2017 Rebels are not performing to his 2015 business and financial plan for them. I'd strongly suspect he knows that to keep the Rebels...

The joke about all this 'Brumbies are safe (but for hidden and mysterious reasons)' ARU policy is in part that, staying alone, you see as plain as the nose on your face that the ACTRU's dark clouds already circling overhead will worsen and further required material ARU cash bail-outs are likely...

Bill, mate, you really need to be more discreet regarding your somewhat anxiety-driven desire to move to Ireland and lead more of yours and Chairman Clyne's brand of 'rugby revolution' there, for World Rugby. Your brand of rugby revolution - 'cull the ungrateful c****' - is still in need of a...

Mate, it's probably on some dusty server in a data centre in Outer Mongolia only accessed by an encryption key that Gagger or Cyclo has duly lost.