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Has anyone actually said this? IIRC most people have said that SA games are played at a time which isn't conducive to Australian viewers. No one that I can remember has said SA should change their times to suit us, just that their time zone doesn't fit. It's the essential problem with the...

Any Fiji (or other PI) participation would be paid for by WR (World Rugby), so Fiji wouldn't have to fund it.

That's your 3rd attempt at trolling with that one. Seems everyone else just enjoyed the game.

Not as similar as you might think BH. Australia v Scotland at Sydney 19 June 2004 - crowd 56,000 Australia v Scotland at Melbourne 13 June 2004 - crowd 38,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Scotland_rugby_union_tour_of_Oceania

Don't think that the number of teams will make any difference. Super rugby is now completely disconnected from so many rugby followers, I doubt there is any way back. If we're not careful, the Wallabies will also be enveloped by the tsunami.

You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried.

Doubt the game will be solvent in Australia in three years the way it's going.

Agree 100%. They should actually be on to a plan now so that it would be fully costed, planned and structured by the beginning of 2019, to be launched by the end of 2019 and hit the ground running at the start of 2020. Unfortunately the track record of rugby administration in this country...

At the moment, Australian rugby doesn't have the money to participate in a trans-continental competition whether it's 5 teams, 4 teams, 3 teams or less. Why would any sponsor pay money to support teams who are barely visible and at times invisible? The whole thing is madness.

We know what they don't want, but we keep on giving to them.

I think that the trans-continental, multi-time zone concept is a big part of the problem. Rugby in Australia needs to pare things right back to basics. I'd be running either a national competition a la NRC, with a champions league type concept attached.

I'd been surprised if the VRU is going to be the only state RU which will be unable to afford continued involvement in super rugby. I'd be looking further north to an RU which has plenty of experience in going broke and is doing its best to get there again.

Much like the headless chooks we have running the game now.

I doubt that there is any part of the professional game in Australia which isn't awash in red ink.

Or as Oliver Cromwell might have put it:

Nasty little cheap shot, which may or may be factually incorrect, but in any case belongs on the scholarship thread.

Error 404 is the perfect corporate slogan for the ARU.

Whatdya reckon Beefy? These ARU blokes have no idea do they Coxy.