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How on earth did you highlight the difference in approach if you didn't (and still won't) talk about what rugby is doing in comparrison? Then you come in afterwards and say rugby shouldn't be copying it an apparently it's "near impossible for rugby to copy"? At the end of the day if you can't...

They've also had a lot of players move on with something like 15 players from last season not there this year.

Fuck it, no Australia or Fiji in the quarters, give the space to Portugal.

When I lived in London I would've been all over Australia A playing in Spain or Portugal and know plenty of others who would've been the same. There's a decent latent supporter base of expats over there that can be tapped into, it's part of why the Wallabies still draw significant appearance...

Absolutely, but we do need to be spending money right now to fix our problems and moving forward. I'm hopeful there is World Rugby money to take advantage of here as they need to be better funding the developing rugby nations if they're going to silo off the top teams in a world league...

Off the back of some of the world cup performances I'd love to see proper Australia A tours of tier 2 nations bedded in going forward. Do a rotating model through the world cup cycle hitting ~3 teams from one of Americas (Uruguay, Chile, USA and Canada), Africa (Namibia and probably South Africa...

I mostly agree but I don't think you can let him off for comments in that AFR article for being before his appointment given he was firmly enmeshed in the management of RA and had just come off an interview process where his plan to fix the game should have been front and centre in his mind...

You make it sound like he arrived in the job this year to find things a mess as though he didn't spend the last 5 years on the board contributing to it.

Never before have I been so keen to see Ireland finally make it to the semi finals

Cracking game, Force the better drilled side from the start but the Reds warmed into the game and got home off the back of some individual brilliance and a stronger bench. Sowerby, Nason and Bierton the Qld standouts for me, along with the bench front row. Sowerby in everything looking a bit...

Connection through the Qld backline has been diabolical, hopefully just rusty having started with the bye and having players off with the Aus schoolboys. A lot to like about the 8 Sowerby though, he's been in everything.

Disappointing to see Prass has gone West, he's an absolute talent. Fairly understandable move though, with Lynagh and McLaughlin-Phillips signed (and the general youth of the backline) it was going to be tough finding opportunities in QLD.

Ideally yes, but it's nowhere near that simple. Firstly the best person for the job (and the job requirements themselves) in Qld aren't necessarily the same as in Sydney/Canberra/Melbourne/Perth. Secondly if it was the case that the Brisbane marketing people and Perth admin people are the best...

It's disappointing but not entirely surprising given the tahs record in this area in the past. Fair enough the international games take time to set up and they missed this year for that, but I don't see why they haven't at least run something like the challenger series that we had in Qld. I...

Not to mention they're expecting the Saitama game to be a sell out and the women's roar side have sold over 3000 season passes so far, which has them looking pretty good for the rest of the year.

I don't think anyone sees the states as particularly good in this situation, there's just no trust for rugby Australia, at least with no detail around what their plan actually is. I think everyone believes we need big change and that some form of centralisation is the answer, but no one is to...

It doesn't look like the negotiations with the Brumbies are going well either: Wouldn't think that it's headed towards an amicable resolution.

Just in case there was any doubt: That's the Reds head of communication with a pretty strong statement. And fair enough too, one of the unspoken parts of centralisation is that there will be people made redundant at the super sides. If they have been delivering in their roles and have a good...

Disagree pretty strongly on that some teams are worse, but plenty are better too - France, Scotland, Ireland and Fiji are all well ahead of where they were in 2019 and I'd argue South Africa, Wales, New Zealand and Argentina are all too close to call. Hell, Eddie would probably relish another...

I think the press has been off them a bit because they played their big pool game early and everything since has been about DuPont's injury. Their injury toll overall has been a bit high but still deserve to be favourites for mine. I think that quarter final against South Africa (assuming it...