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Not sure if refs associations are that flush with numbers though. Quite often with these school games it's a matter of just finding someone to do it. If he's president of the association or whatever, there's a farily good chance that he makes sure he gets the good games. One of the worst...

Interesting that they were happy to play Joeys, as I saw Joeys play Newington in 15As last year and Joeys were as big if not bigger than Newington and very well developed in terms of muscle mass etc. Hopefully the Shore boys have put on a bit of beef in the off season (although all that rowing...

Embarrassment isn't an emotion experienced by those who run rugby in Australia and NSW. They have no shame in their relentless networking, cronyism and nepotism.

Not sure that they were that keen on playing Joeys - IIRC a parent from the team posted something to the effect that they had had injuries and lopsided scorelines against Kings, Newington and Joeys prior to withdrawing. Scots 15s with half the year group away would have been ok - they may have...

You're now clutching at straws BH. Are you seriously suggesting that companies which sponsor Australian rugby teams do so to achieve exposure in foreign lands? We often disagree, but at least you usually present a logical and coherent argument which I can respect even when in disagreement...

No, it's not what they are doing. What they are doing is overspending on a fairly consistent basis and use RWC and BIL as some sort of excuse for spending too much money as if the drop in revenue is some sort of surprise. If a business has a consistent income and expenditure on an annual...

But as I said later in the same post - we know that RWC is going to come around every 4 years, we know that revenue will take a hit because no June series and so because we know this in advance we can't use it as an explanation for a drop in revenue because we should expect the drop and budget...

That's what I would be advocating. Let NZ, SA and the others fly around the world while we develop our own sustainable competition here.

Just think, if Kearns had got the CEO role they could have swapped Sydney to Hobart stories at board meetings.

He only needs to play 2 years out of three. He can go and find himself in the middle year.

But if we go back to the 2016 Annual Report, we see that there was indeed a significant increase in the broadcast agreement amount. But all this has done is serve as a one of sugar hit and then normal service has been resumed in 2017. 2015 - LOSS - $3.343 million 2016 - PROFIT - $8.876...

point 1 - yes point 2 - there is no simple solution, but those in charge aren't making things better, so their solutions aren't working point 3 - there are some things unique about the Australian winter sports landscape, but all countries with the exception of New Zealand also face issues...

Clyne used to run one of the big 4 banks, so shafting customers (or in this case the Force) is his standard practice. He should have gone with Pulver.

But they picked up $4.4 million in income from the Force sponsors. (page 15)

The ARU/RA remind me of the gambling addict who keeps betting on the next race, or putting a few more dollars in the pokies because the next win will make it alright. In the case of RA, it's the next broadcast deal that is always going to fix things. Super rugby is unfixable in its current...

That's the nub of it hoggy. We've been told about Australian rugby's unique uniqueness now for years. Nothing that works in in other rugby playing nation could work in Australia, nothing which works in every other major sporting code in Australia could possibly work in rugby, and on it goes...

Super rugby is like the giant whirlpool Charybdis in the Odyssey, sucking rugby into oblivion.

They're all drowning in red ink.

From that I assume that what was asserted isn't in the Annual Report or Financial Statement.

Phil Waugh went to Shore, all you need to know.:)