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True, but in his case he wasn't after an injunction to stop the process, he was after damages so the time factor isn't really a factor. RWA could have got an injunction pending court action as they did for the appeal against the arbitration.

This is how the game is run, and a large part of the reason that we are where we are now. I suspect that all franchises and the ARU are run the same way. Car park searches, world wide recruiting processes which come up with your best mate from school as the candidate, panicked appointments...

This sort of stuff is why I wanted to see Pulver, Clyne et al in open court being questioned. I'd be fairly sure that the ARU and NSWRU are run in the same slap dash manner. http://archive.sclqld.org.au/qjudgment/2017/QDC17-221.pdf IMO Rugby WA made a huge tactical blunder in going with...

It takes longer to get from Sydney to Parramatta by train now than it did 100 years ago too.

The SRU should bring Newcastle back into SS as a first step.

Absolutely, the Brumbies were the 100% correct pick for rugby to expand when super rugby began. I'd still have the Brumbies in in 2018 and beyond because I'd still have 5 teams. The point I was making was that assuming that a team had to be cut, then there needed to be a set of objective...

Actually, the NRL didn't expand into Canberra. The Canberra Raiders are essentially an accident of history. At the time, rugby league was state based and no one had any inclination to form a national competition. The NSWRL controlled the game in NSW and it selected Newcastle, Canberra and...

And I think that we can be safely sure that the attraction of major sporting events isn't high on the priority list of the ACT Government.

True, and these factors should have been among the criteria objectively applied to decide which team to cut. (not that I think there should have been anyone cut. There's a reason why the AFL put 2 teams in Sydney, a team in Brisbane and a team on the Gold Coast, but no team in Canberra...

BUt aren't we consistently told that Canberra is a "rugby heartland"? Surely they could fill a small stadium like that, even against Argentina - a game that we were reasonably likely to win.

Yes, banks are a crucial part of the economy, although I'd suggest that having 4 large banks that are essentially "too big to fail" isn't really capitalism, it's more like a corporate oligarchy. Indeed, it takes a very special individual to run an organisation which: 1. alters loan...

I'd heard previously that the NSWRU had enough money to make it through to this time next year before the creditors came knocking. This little maneouvre will stave that off for a couple of years anyway.

I didn't think that moral behaviour and honest, ethical dealings were divorced from sport. Or that one had to reach "war criminal" status to be considered morally bankrupt. Certainly my experience has been that those that I've dealt with in sport were honest and ethical in their dealings with...

I'll bet that very little of it gets to the grass roots. I suspect that much of the money will go to keeping the NSWRU and the QRU afloat. Let's see how many junior clubs get a visit from Clyne with a cheque in hand. Or maybe he'll be sleeping so soundly, he'll be late.;)

If Clyne can sleep easily, he has no moral compass.

I'll take Storm "failure" ahead of Force/Rebels "success" any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

If anything they provide the model for rugby more than anything in AFL. Some rugby types like to sneer at league (with some justification at times) and their culture, but as you say the Storm have really ingrained a culture which any sporting club/franchise would like to emulate for any number...

Perception is reality. In the context of elite professional sporting clubs/franchises the metric for success is what occurs on the field. The Swans still have more than half of their squad from Victoria or South Australia - on that basis they are also behind the Force BUT the reality is that...

Although no one is expecting them to operate on the same scale as the AFL, just employ similar strategic planning. There's no need in the short to medium term for example for the Force to do what the Swans have done in terms of the size of the operation. Having less money means that the ARU...

Unlikely.