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The system that the ARU/NSWRU have constructed means that it's virtually impossible to move from SS to the Waratahs. Players come from one of: (a)schoolboy rep teams (b)junior academies (c)rugby league (d)NZ or Pacific Islands (e)other overseas place The positions left over after these are...

And they have zero goodwill - even from most of the rugby community.

The ARU can't really afford to be in super rugby full stop.

They're in a mess alright, but it's one of their own making. This has been coming for 15 years and the ARU along with their partners in crime the NSWRU, the QRU and the ACTRU have ignored the rising tide and now the water has reached their collective bottom lip.

Just saw the WA Premier on the news. He's going to pursue every legal avenue to have the Force reinstated and/or recoup money spent on the basis that the Force were long term participants in super rugby. He's more than happy to send the ARU broke in the process. Bring it on Mr McGowan, there...

Correct. The ABs emptied their bench too early and lost all rhythm. I like the way that we never gave up and managed to score tries, but for people to try to use it to rationalise a humiliating defeat is ridiculous.

Yes, they are.

He's too busy suing the QRU for unfair dismissal

A complete mess. They have no structure, so they rely on who the schoolboy selectors pick. It resembles the rest of professsional rugby in Australia - a shambolic clusterf**k.

Embattled is something of an understatement RH.:) I think we're starting to see chickens coming home to roost. EDIT: And one hopes that the missile has a nuclear warhead and wipes out the whole sorry lot of them. ARU, NSWRU, QRU, ACTRU

I couldn't have written a better article myself. He's summarised the whole sorry mess in one article.

Woodies rarely turn in a bad game in the finals.

They could all have been playing club rugby for some of the time.

The Sir Douglas Haig school for tactics.:)

They'd draw more in Perth than they did in Singapore.

Which is why I tuned into Channel 10 last night.

And I'm sure that they are looking for a little cash injection from the alleged savings from the extermination of the Force.

We're heading for collapse and because of the factors of which you speak, it's the only way. If we dig a little deeper into the extermination of the Force, I'm sure that we'll find a little bit of extra cash going to NSW & Qld. Should prop them up for another year.

IS, you assume that the concept of conflict of interest has permeated the ARU culture.;)

Which is fine, but he shouldn't be masquerading as an analyst on TV as an analyst needs at times to be critical - same for Kafer. You can't be a media personality and an ARU employee/board member at the same time. It's a massive conflict of interest by any standards.