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Btw: http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/rugby/will-millers-super-rugby-debut-shows-club-footy-can-be-valuable-production-line-of-talent-says-simon-cron/news-story/b68938fca3f87f18f102a0237a4c4f69 Simon Cron's words and ideas impress more and more. Guy just oozes good sense and positive...

That being one of the best observations made here in some time. There are two problems in this notable zone of concern: One, and this is important, the ARU's and local RU's governance systems provide zero mechanisms of for, for example, 'grassroots' or any kind of 'outside' rugby-loving...

todd4, I think that's right.........but as an aside QLD's nursery generation of new players is getting extremely narrow. Dangerously narrow I would argue and reflects the reckless general RU negligence towards the enhancement and growth of a broader-based schools rugby network in QLD. Of the...

Seriously though: the obvious 'insider' patronage, the executive cross-overs, the internecine insider reviews conducted by close ex-Wallaby mates, the ARU board position promotions from within the same tight group.........can we know see how institutionally unhealthy and inbred has been/still is...

@kiap Re that ^^^^ last paragraph.......hilarious......but on a serious note you have to feel sorry for the Force. It's clear the ARU has zero honest intention of actually reviewing their case for survival. It's been clear from the outset that the ARU's designated path of least resistance was...

Now you're talking - what a gem of a poster was he! My happiest ever time here was the co-invention and later propagation with Bruce of the infamous Totality Tony thread following the ARU's hyped-up media release re TT's 2012 arrival back to the Australian rugby coaching scene. Bruce had us...

Brett Robinson has very ably assisted the ARU no doubt in matters of high-performance rugby - and boy do current results reflect his and others' highly productive contributions in this area - but perhaps even more important was the instrumental role he played in the QRU's radical and deep review...

Maybe not the optimal thread for it but shit does Gibson rightly get to the heart of the matter here (and all this applies to the Reds just as much as to the 'Tahs). Namely: the Australian RUs and ARU were wholly seduced by the easy option - pump more and more quantity of 'rugby product' out to...

Topo, great to have you back here, remember you so well from 2010 onwards. But where oh where are the lost greats of that GAGR era........like Scarfman and nasa and nusadan?

Agree! Like the 'anointing' of Larkham as Wallaby HC to be!

ILTW - not a respectful manner by which to address Bill; the high office he occupies should be dealt with somewhat more politely (whatever his otherwise troubling incapacities and current struggles, with which we all sympathise).

Bill, whilst appreciating the considerable stress you are under at this difficult time (not helped by your Chairman constantly stepping over you), surely you'll remember the multiple times you (or your media guys) leaked to News Corp journos immediately after the London SANZAAR meeting that the...

Chairman Clyne made very clear only a week or so ago that the ARU have had real concerns regarding the financial viability of 5 Australian Super rugby teams in aggregate since 2011 (btw the Rebels' first year).

Thanks Bill.

Why patronise and provoke, and then meekly hide behind that pathetic declaration.

Wayne Smith in today's The Australian in a long piece calls for 'root and branch reform' of the ARU as being essential after the latest 'culling' fiasco. States that the seemingly binding agreement to grant the Force's survival rights through 2020 was shown to neither SANZAAR or (on a timely...

Just wondering if this thought-provoking (and btw quite moving) piece from Tim Walsh contains ideas we all should consider more.........the potentially productive commercial and player development synergies between 7s and 15s, longer term...

Tesla wouldn't allow it, to free you up.........;-).

'They had to destroy the village in order to save it.'

It's quite staggering how the ARU could issue verbal junk like that - all with great fanfare and media chest-beating - and literally a year, JUST ONE YEAR, later, the whole edifice and 'exciting' 'Strategic Plan' lies at their feet in rags and tatters surrounded by embattlement and coteries of...