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I mean... duh? None of us here are experts (to say the least) and I reckon we've all known that for a decade.

Eh that's bullshit. Petaia is already a great wing, particularly at Super Rugby level, and a shoe in for every single Wallaby squad. He has potential to move to fullback if they choose to give him dedicated time there, but its not needed

If this was happening then those are some brave (or fucking stupid) directors. Aren't directors personally liable for any debts incurred whilst insolvent?

Mark N (Nawaqanitawase) the clear stand out. Skelton, Valetini and Marika were all middling at best.

Be ironic if the Rebs finally come good in their last year.

Looks like Reg has employed some Russian bots to drive up forum visits.

The Brits are absolute sluts for sports washing.

Also not an expert but I expect that shaking a brain around in its skull is bad, period.

To play devils advocate - the US do all sorts of equally and often even more heinous shit and we have no issues with US based funding for anything. I can see the double standard argument.

True, I suppose 'badness' is probably a spectrum. Personally, if presented with the option I'd probably dodge Saudi funding unless I absolutely had to take it.

I am guessing you don't really care but they would probably constitute frenemies. They have arms deals and all that jazz but generally provide funding to militant groups that are opposed to Israel, who the US also have a bunch of arms deals and other financial ties with. Basically, arms deals.

I dunno. Travel and TV times were definitely issues.

Bigotry

I think we basically agree? We lag in that we don't emphasise it as a skill that everyone needs to be at least competent at. When I say 'can' pilfer I obviously don't mean it literally. I mean, can pilfer effectively when the opportunity presents itself and is a skill that is intentionally...

A pilfering 7 is an anachronism and an area Australia badly lag the rest of the world. Every single player in the French 23 can pilfer.

Yeah I don't think the Wallabies chances are that closely tied to a 6/7 hybrid who has one (?) test cap. Edit: five test caps. More than I thought.

Well if you buy into the whole cohesion thing that's pretty much doomed to fail outside the odd decent world cup run (and by decent I mean a quarterfinal appearance).

People keep saying rugby has hit rock bottom but from where I sit there's plenty to go yet. Endgame, as Reg raised in a pretty decent frontpage article a few years ago, is that we return to full blown amateurism.

You have to wonder what good it is being the toffs sport of choice if they aren't even willing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars propping up an unsupported team/comp.