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Yeah, all the reporting seems to suggest the tahs are basically dead in the water and will take anything to keep them afloat right now.

South Australia, Northern Territory and Tasmania all have one vote each as well. It's also not clear what WA's voting intention around an EGM is, only QLD's and ACT's is stated outright, with the Western Force being listed as having "strong reservations about a move towards a more centralised...

Doran has more detail around the centralisation debate: This seems to be the long and short of the problem: With the Brumbies worried about being moved, the Force still burnt from being cut and the Reds in a reasonably strong and financially stable position off the back of their assets all 3...

As I understand it the opposition isn't to centralisation, just to the model (or lack of detailed model) being put forward by Rugby Australia. Certainly I can't see why or how the states could trust RA on form without a well developed plan being put forward. I don't think it helps that Waugh's...

Residency period is 5 years (or 10 non consecutive).

Tahs supporters should always be mocked

My favourite bit was when he told @RugbyReg to get a tahs membership

More or less, yeah

They're one club amongst many, they've had good years and bad but they're a long way from the heart and soul of Australian rugby that they're made out to be. Not to mention they were one of the main obstacles to the success of the NRC - one of the rare positive moves RA have made in the past 20...

Not necessarily, might be train and trial at this stage. Certainly it means he's in the frame for next year.

It means I'd love to see the constant talk of "Randwick rugby" and the idea that "a strong Randwick means a strong Wallabies" confined to the history books, along with the dinosaurs that continuously trot it out. It's about time we left the amateurism in the amatuer era.

I believe it was concussion issues that have effectively ended Magnay's career (alongside other injuries). I know he took 2022 off to recover from the concussion related issues, but I haven't heard since. If he could of strung games together I'm pretty confident he would've been a star - much...

He did shit on shore a few paragraphs earlier, I think he wanted to spread the "love"

I wouldn't mind seeing Randwick go the way of Wasps, might finally give us a chance at real change.

Mark Di Stefano tore into the administration in the AFR and didn't miss: https://www.afr.com/rear-window/hamish-mclennan-and-rugby-s-schoolboy-errors-20230925-p5e7ee I particularly enjoyed this bit of savagery:

It's variable:

For the most part money*. Australia has the top flight talent for 5 teams but not the money required to fill them with Australians. As a result a portion of that top flight talent leaves overseas for bigger deals and is replaced by international talent (or lesser Australian players). This is...

The one stakeholder that is still yet to organise off season rugby for squad development by the looks of it too. The more things change...

Good pickup, I had wondered what happened there given he looked to be in the frame for a Reds contract.

I'm loath to dive into this debate but what you've said here is entirely wrong. Noah Lolesio was at 10 for our win over South Africa last year, Quade had already done his achilles over in Argentina at that stage.