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It would have to be really meaningful for it to draw in the necessary funding in order to support the professional franchises. Which I suspect it won't. Club footy is great and all but they don't rate and therefore add little to any real value. We need to look to suit ourselves and that means...

And with weeks that the Wallabies are either playing in Aus and several squad members aren't required or in the weeks when they aren't playing at all they could come back and play in this structure.

So I've read the Aus article. It's not encouraging. A few ideas have been thrown about. One is to play mid week games against touring sides. Which seems unlikely and hardly worth it if your playing A sides. Another option is a mini-tournament in Dubai featuring two Aus teams. A couple of Kiwi...

This seems to be the preferred compromise of many here and something I'm all in favour of. The 4 Super Rugby teams plus at the very least the Force and Fiji at a minimum. That would be 10 games. Could spread the games around a bit. Look to involve Wallaby squad members when not required. And I mean all...

The Tigers were likely less of a draw. Could very well change if GRR manage to sign a bunch of big names and a number of them feature in the Tigers line up next year.

Seriously. That has to be one of the worst April 1sts I've ever seen. Quite fitting.

Not saying that they will but it's something I'd hate to see after the outlay. And changing the law to sell an asset with a majority government isn't that hard.

SSD generally speaking are privately funded projects. Or public/private partnerships. Which if it were private money or a public/private partnership with the vast majority of the funds not coming from the state budget I'd be far more open to it. Another worry is that they'll spend all this money...

Never said it was a perfect solution. There will be some double up but we already have that in the RC as is.

Reading now in the sober (emphasis on the sober) light of day. I still think the NC should run outside the 6Ns/RC. It's the simplest way to achieve this in my opinion and would involve Fiji and Japan being elevated to the RC. It would allow for the current structures to be maintained at both the...

You have the Euro conference being separate from the 6Ns which means it runs during a different window or would this means the 6Ns runs every second year with the Euro conference occupying the same window? Because if the 6Ns runs annually then the Euro conference would have to run during the...

When will this run?

7688.

In the interview on Greenwood's podcast Martin briefly touches on how they may look to realise their investment. But one key one is that they are willing to maintain the 6Ns on FTA while the likes of CVC and IMG would in all likelihood be looking for a paywall option.

Of course they aren't doing from the goodness of their own hearts. I seriously doubt anyone is entering this thinking otherwise.

When he's not shuffling sideways he is. Problem is we haven't seen that much lately.

I read that this week and instantly thought that one of the Aus teams should chase his signature before he plays for Japan.

Yeah. The Rebels will go top.

If they didn't treat Super Rugby as just a glorified trial system for the Test arena they might give a shit.

I have my nieces over tonight while my brother and sister-in-law are at a wedding. It took at lot of restraint on my behalf not to call him a STUPID C@#T!!! out loud. SEriously, so much stupid out there tonight.