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I'm still wondering how Brendan Cannon managed to slip through the commentators net. He's knowledgable, articulate and doesn't follow the sychophantic ARU line like the rest of them.

Or they could just go to zero now and admit the whole thing is unsustainable.

He's just the latest manifestation. The vast majority of board members, charimen and CEOs in the professional era have all been cut from the same cloth. And they're essentially the same group of people that run banks and large corporations - and we see on show at the Royal Commissions how they...

All the spin and bluster from RA, their client state RUs and their ever decreasing band of establishment defenders can't fight the tide of mathematics. Fewer people are playing, fewer people are watching, fewer people are supporting super rugby and so income will continue to decline while...

Reds 12 - Chiefs 36, before what looked like around 10,000 or less at Suncorp. At least the 2nd half was 12 all.

The BIL tour in 2013 is all that has kept the game afloat. From the 2013 annual report: Game day revenue increased from $34.6 million in 2012 to 68.2 million in 2013. i.e. a $33 million dollar windfall (and they only managed to bank 17 of 33 - assume that the rest went on increased costs and...

I'm talking about the one which was instituted by Julia Gillard to report at the end of 2015 by extended by Tony Abbott because of the mountain of issues uncovered. NOW THEREFORE We do, by these Our Letters Patent issued in Our name by Our Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia on...

We can only hope.

I suspect that this Royal Commission will be extended like the child abuse one was.

Very well put. I note that in the last RWC year (2015), the ARU lost money. The parent entity lost $9,849,000 The consolidated entity lost $6,329,000 I'm sure that someone can explain the difference. (page 8 of the financial report attached)...

Don't underestimate their ability to lose money. I agree it will take them a little while to burn through $17 million, but lose it they will on the current trajectory.

I'd add that as the base has shrunk below the critical mass, we now have nepotism, cronyism and networking rife in the development process. Who you know, who your father is, what school you go to and your reputation (usually propogated by friends and relative in the know) count for much more...

Only the deluded are excited by it. Realists know that such wins serve only to temporarily mask the deep flaws. Said deep flaws are exposed against SA and NZ opponents. Which is sort of what's happening now despite, or perhaps because of, the super rugby situation. Wins against Fiji...

And just to provide some factual information; in 2008 the Waratahs played 3 South African teams at the SFS Cheetahs in Round 7 - Crowd 20,179 Lions in Round 10 - Crowd 20,016 Sharks in Round 11 - Crowd 26,402 Games against NZ teams at the SFS in 2008 Round 1 v Hurricanes - Crowd 27,011...

Perhaps an illustration of the state of the game, and further evidence of the need to step back and away from Super Rugby. Barely 10,000 people at a game which would have drawn 25,000-30,000 a decade ago. Meanwhile, next door at the SCG 38,000 fans watch the Swans play Adelaide. I was...

Another fantastic advertisement for Super Rugby last night at the SFS I hear.;)

SANZAAR control the draw and they wouldn't have thought of any of this.

Indeed, in fact I hear that all guilty banking executives from the Royal Commission are going to be made to sit through every minute of every super rugby game involving Ausralian teams from 2017 and 2018. Surely no one will dare to step out of line in the future with such cruel and inhuman...

Because RA have no control of the draw - that's done by SANZAAR and they don't give a flying f**k about what suits the locals. Another reason (as if we need another reason) for getting the hell out of super rugby when the current agreement expires in 2020.

Cutting all four remaining super sides would be the best outcome for Australian rugby. We still haven't hit rock bottom, there's been a bit of a false dawn because all the Aussie sides played each other and the Sunwolves in the first few weeks, so it gave the impression that there had been an...