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Nothing makes RA look like a well-run rugby organisation - with the possible exception of Samoa. Although there the people running it are well-organised, perhaps with there own interests in mind though. But I am digressing from the main point.

You provide carrot and stick to get people on board. The four clubs who banded together to form the Rays (and tipped in $30k each IIRC) were basically sold out by ARU/RA who created the Country Eagles so that recalcitrant clubs who tried to sagotage the whole thing had a place for their players...

You get them to play nice by saying that you players don't have access to the pro pathway unless your club buys in.

Because it's not a club championship, it's what the NRC should look like. And if the NRC did like that then this conversation wouldn't be occurring. The clubs in parts of Sydney, parts of Brisbane/Qld, Canberra, Melbourne and Perth are all directly affiliated with a pro/semi-pro club...

Or you could have a model where teams operate as separate entities at the community level, but combine in the professional/semi-professional level. So for example if the Northern Rays was still in existance and was still linked with Manly, Warringah, Norths and Gordon then Karmichael Hunt...

Silverado, The team which I named, was the one which is currently on the Country Eagles website. So you're telling me that the website is 12 months out of date? If so, I'm speechless. http://nswcountryeagles.com/team/

What I mean is that the players have zero connection with the community they represent, they don't even live in the country while they are playing for the team. That's not how you build community support for a team and a code. Obviously players move around in professional sport, that's not the...

If was going so well, these conversations wouldn't even occur. It's a better model than what? There's no better model than the current NRC model? At all? Anywhere? Nothing we can learn about how to structure our professsional, semi-professional and community levels from anywhere else...

Unlike anything else we know of?;)

You're assuming a particular model, rather than a concept.

It would depend how one judges "success" though. Have either of these teams resulted in a quantifiable increase in participation and/or support for rugby in rural NSW or Qld? Or either they just names attached to a randomly assembled group of players who represent nothing much in...

You forget that super rugby players from NSW and Qld are affiliated with clubs, so one would assume that they would turn out for those clubs in such a competition. For example this week, Karmichael Hunt joined Gordon. Which seems to knock out your main objection. I always love the way...

NRC is propped up by Foxtel. It's seems to have worked so well that a team based in Suva won it. If the NRC was a horse, it would have been sent to the glue factory two years ago. In it's current form it's a nonsense. In terms of some sort of replacement, those advocating it have to...

That's one way of looking at it. Another way would be that the NRC hasn't worked and people are looking at options. The NRC could have worked, but it's a complete shambles. I wouldn't spend your money propping it up.

How many supporters do the NRC franchises have? I would have thought that they wouldn't have very many to lose. The parts of games that I have seen on TV have 3 men and a dog there.

With the exception of Kings, I don't think there's very many schools which have more than one full size field. Newington don't, Shore don't, Riverview don't, Joeys don't, Scots don't, High don't, Grammar don't, Trinity don't, Waverley don't, Barker not sure but I think not, Knox not sure but I...

Vision not needed to know the location of his other hand.

The thread for such discussions is now extinct:)

Tepai Moeroa played for Aust Schoolboys rugby in 2013 even though he was know to have signed with Parramatta league. There was a time when players had to sign a document to the effect that they hadn't signed for a rugby league club prior to going on an Aust Schoolboys tour. The last guy I...

I don't know, maybe it's because it's one of 11 clubs in the premier club competition in NSW, so one would have thought that the NSWRU might take a passing interest in their welfare and progress. Although I realise that under the model of sports administration that you subscribe to, the...