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Did the Hawaii group ever make it off the ground? Thought the initial announcement was Force, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Samoa, Fiji, Japanx2

Johnson's Scotland, are, of course, currently ranked below Cheika's Australia in the World Rugby Rankings

Did you see Dave Pocock out on the other wing?

Best assistant coaching setup in all of Australian rugby now. Including the national team. Head coach has no excuses on that front

Few others would like a word......

Just a rumour, but a good source. Cheika gone by Christmas, and probably replaced by Larkham, but they want to announce the replacement at the same time so are looking at a few other options

I think Pichots vision for player eligibility would mean Hughes never played for England in the first place

Not mentioned in that article but he also talked about the resistance from the big (NH?) Nations to a few of his ideas including revenue sharing of gate receipts, relagation, and he wants more changes to player eligibility.

Waugh, Greegan, Eales, etc - it's the same old story said best by Upton Sinclair

What about Rob Simmons?

Average crowd for the Cheetahs is less than 4k and king's is less than 3k. Both teams got way less than that in their games last week. Supporters there don't seem much interested in summer rugby

Friday's Women's big bash did 150k-200k on 7mate and 80k on Foxtel. That's twice what the aleague are getting at the moment and probably at the very top end of what we could hope for these days. I don't think we are exploding any tv execs heads with the discovery that Australians like cricket

The Reds put up plenty of social media stuff regularly, their twitter feed has 13 posts in December alone. The issue is that basically none of it is of the actual professional players on the field. Los of good stuff on the women and juniors, and flogging merch and memberships

Team based mostly on reputation

They probably get the intern out mowing the lawn at Ballymore over summer so they're too busy for instagram posts

Whoever is teaching our front rowers how to throw line-breaking try-scoring passes is going ok. Bit of focus on some other skills/positions would be nice though

Yeah - from memory I think the rest of the competition increased their revenue - but the South African teams had a reduction when compared to Super (and from their crowds!) I guess for these two teams it was better to have a side in an international comp than to just rely on the domestic...

I do wonder about the economics for South Africa. The TV money for SA teams in the pro league must be spectacular - their crowds have been terrible, bordering on non-existent. (Kings reported 1400 for last week's game, which was very optimistic based on reports) Maybe they are hoping people...

If you believe the rumours, Marks was sacked and replaced by Alec Evans on the orders of Leo Williams (JON pulled the trigger) because he wouldn't update the manual as directed around a decade ago

He'd be sacked for saying something offensive within weeks anyway.