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I don't see any issue with it, as everyone is playing the same teams the same amount of times......... Effectively it acts almost like a conference system in a greater TT championship, almost like the NBA.

That game was over by half time......... It is when you're there on merit. :cool:

Not really.......... They smashed the top ranked NZ team at the time in NZ............ And they had an after the siren choke against the Highlanders when the team was ravaged with injury. They were 2/4 against Kiwi sides last year (100% against all SA teams too), and finished 3rd last year...

Ahem.........

Also, how many times have we not had a prime time match in recent years? Especially on Friday nights........... A TT model should fix that, but the organisers need to be smarter about the scheduling to fit in matches for both Aus/NZ markets......... eg. when the Force host Kiwi teams on the...

I don't think all 10 TT teams playing each other home and away is viable, and each team playing each other once doesn't really amount to much of a competition........... And the Aus/Kiwi matches are some of the most watched/attended games here so I don't think a model where all of those teams...

I'm just going to focus on this part of your post for now........... You kind of dismiss the idea that RA should hire media rights consultants, because board members been involved in these deals before, even though they would've engaged with media rights consultants on those bids because it's...

Yes, I do............ but it clearly follows the tone of the article.

I don't think that's accurate at all........... It's pretty easy to filter through the obvious politically motivated hatched jobs presented by the likes of Halloran, and the more balanced articles presented by others, who have been able to report on the negative dramas of RA without resorting...

Only if you agree with her angle.......... many of those headlines are funnily enough, not objective.

And I reckon if Rodda was disgruntled with Thorn and wanted to change to another Australian team, that probably could've been done without rejecting the RUPA approved paycut.............

RA terminated all of their contracts today, so Rodda won't be getting picked up by another Australian team.........

I forgot about that whole ordeal........... I wonder how many new G&GR accounts could be traced back to Picone’s offices that week?

She's gone quiet since McLennan took over, but maybe something like........... EXCLUSIVE: CASTLE'S BUNGLED PAY DEAL DRIVES WALLABY STARS OUT OF THE GAME

I'd suggest he hadn't played well since leaving the Force a few years ago.......... Maybe I'm being harsh, but he was possibly the 6th best performing lock in Australia last year.

I played for Tuggeranong, so while I relish in the spite and the succeses, and hold no personal issue with cannibalising ACT rugby......... It's certainly not for the greater good.

Nope.......... big, big, BIG difference. Go into one of the John I Dent Cup threads to catch a glimpse of how the greater Canberra rugby community feel about the Vikings.

Ultimately, whatever professional competition we have going forward, whether it be domestic, trans-Tasman, Super Rugby MK VI, will need to be built on the existing professional franchises, and hopefully grown from there (Fiji, extra teams in NSW, Qld etc.)............. Ditching already well...

Mack Hansen........... https://www.ultimaterugby.com/mack-hansen

I can't recall if I proposed the idea here, but I think you can have the best of both worlds with an intertwined separate domestic and tras tasman competition.. Initially take the 4 Super Rugby teams, and the Force to start with (and eventually expand on that - more Aus teams, Fiji, Japan whatever when...