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We couldn't/souldn't keep older guys like him and also a whole lot of younger guys in Australia with 5 sides. We're now told by RA that running 4 sides will be better.

During the late 90s/early 00s Penrith were going ok; 4 grades of colts and 4 grade sides. The lower sides were a bit ordinary, but the two 1st grade units were quite competitive. This was only achieved through NSWRU/ARU funding of DOs and other paid officials. Sadly about 2003, the funding was...

If it's to stay in Sydney the new Parramatta Stadium would be a good option. Failing that, I'd move it to Perth if I was the ARU/RA and play it at the new stadium.

If you remember, they got rid of Link despite his success to bring in Hickey/Foley. Hickey probably did deserve the initial appointment based on SS success (but Link shouldn't have been punted to bring him in). It became obvious fairly quickly that Hickey wasn't up to it. We still haven't...

Gibson should have been gone halfway through last season. What he has going for himself is that he is the type of passive, non-entity preferred by the NSWRU, much in the Hickey/Foley mould.

There's a significant Tongan and Samoan population in Sydney, enough to support teams from each. In fact I reckon they'd draw more fans than most. One or both could play out of Cambelltown - there's a significantly under-utilised rectangular ground there which is NRL standard but only used 3 or...

These guys know no other way to operate.

The whole thing is a bit like watching a train crash in slow motion. The tragedy is that most of it has been forseen and forseeable - in fact a number of us have been predicting/warning of the current state of affairs for some time. We've hit stage four of a dramatic tragedy (catastophe). All...

As it stands, I think that the whole super rugby operation in Australia is unsustainable. We're talking the levels of subsidy from head office to super rugby like the car industry received for decades. Only thing is the ARU/RA don't have 25 million taxpayers to slug, they've only got an ever...

Shafting people at the grassroots is the one thing at which the ARU/RA excel. In fact it's probably the only thing that they are best in the world at.

We live in hope BH

Presumably the pay increase and the increased squad sizes mean that RA is now spending about the same if not a little more on player payments. Where then is the promised increased funding for grass roots?? Another big lie??

Please, we're talking about the ARU/RA. (smiling emoticon)

I think it's called "pissing your money up against the wall" or that's how our outgoing CEO might describe using money in such a spendthrift way.

Where do I pick up an application form (smiling emoticon)?

Ironic is one word to describe it, I could think of others (winking emoticon)

It would depend in the end what precisely he might be found guilty of. He seems at this point to have been charged with possession of a drug. An allegation, if proven, could be considered serious rather than trivial, and for which he should receive the same punishment as anyone else in society...

Is his snout ever out of a trough?

Anything in there about being able to take a year off on full pay to save endangered species? (winking and smiling emoticons inserted)

Don't what it's called these days. NSW Cup?