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Statement from the CEO of SA Rugby interesting and revealing: http://m.sport24.co.za/sport24/Rugby/SuperRugby/sa-rugby-responds-to-decision-to-cut-2-sa-super-rugby-teams-20170409?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter The new 15 team format was clearly all...

Actually that's not totally fair. The ARU's board as currently constructed would be very able in tasks like charity fund-raising, going to regular yet discreet 'elite' Sydney networking dos to foster the chances of certain members getting onto the most lucrative public company boards...

I hear the wine storage rooms and chauffeurs' waiting quarters are very well-designed. And that, only very recently, the ARU board (on BP's recommendation) decided to install a state of the art 'Panic Room' deep in the new building's bowels (though speculation continues amongst the ARU's...

Actually, the penny has just now dropped: With both the Force and the Rebels heavily inferring they might sue the ARU if indeed they are cut, this farcical ARU 'process to determine which franchise is to be cut' is a of course solely a creature of the ARU's laughable timidity and is a tactical...

And now this peach from rugby.com.au: "......In the Rebels' favour, crucially, is the security of private ownership, with finances believed to be a major criteria in the decision to reshape the Australian franchises......" If all we know regarding the so-called privatisation of the Rebels is...

I know I'm repeating Snout, but you could not make this stuff up if you tried.

Oh fuck me dead - announce a 'forthcoming process to determine which team will be cut'. Is there no limit to their institutional idiocy and appalling judgement? Pandaram still writing confidently tonight that the decision is already made to cut the Force.

FWIW I have heard numerous insiders say that, given the deal the ARU did to 'privatise' the Rebels, it's true that they simply cannot afford to close them, the contingent financial obligations would be too great. Sounds just like the sort of deal the ARU would do, and the ill-considered mess...

They're now assessing if they'll need it or not.

The ARU also may I note: - strongly pushed McGahan to the Rebels in 2013 after it was clear Link did not want him at the Wallabies (and he had achieved zilch there) - were heavily with and invited into the 'extensive global search and HC selection process' with the Reds in 2016 and that...

Re the Force, as an aside, an aspect of their survival or not that IMO has been under-covered in these threads is the way in which their supporters - and business viability - were betrayed by very poor, yet very critical, decisions made by WARugby in picking R Graham and then, almost worse, M...

gel, not to argue with you at all, but it's a fact that each of Link, Cheika, White made marked and sustained positive impacts to their respective team in the very first year of their appointments in all of w-l %, quality of play, obviously better selections and, too, individual players often...

Likely true, but what a deeply depressing state of affairs it reveals. These are the supposed 'pillar' teams holding Australian rugby up. Is there a professional sporting code in Australian run as poorly as ours has been for a decade or more now?

What a stunning confession and indictment, it's almost beyond belief after all the OTT pre-season hype. Moore today: 'We're not good enough to win games at the moment.' FFS. http://www.rugby.com.au/news/2017/04/08/13/02/reds-reax-post-brumbies-loss And when he talks of the Brumbies revival...

^^^^ @ wamberal it's slowly bled out through now in our 4th year of mediocrity, the dilutive effects of imported 'stars' largely there for convenience, and serious managerial incompetence off the field compounding team disillusion on it.

I cannot understand this 'justified over-rating' thesis pre this season. Why? The clear and present danger signs were there the moment the infamous QRU 'extensive global search' picked ...........'the good local QLD rugby man''.........just as they had shown was their preference in type in...

The Reds' and QRU's usual apologists and excuse-makers have obviously had 'other pressing commitments' tonight. Bit like our forwards in the loose. Bit like Moore, and Douglas...and

Just wanted a laugh and to capture, or preempt,The Latest Excuse for 2017: 'The Reds are Developing and Re-Building'.....

B.T.R.A.D.B

"Settling for mediocrity killing Australian rugby" As Cannon says so well, we're now patting ourselves on the back for 'good second halves' and 'can't fault the efforts' .... as winning becomes the increasingly rare exception...