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WR (World Rugby) has "ticked off" (does that mean approved) a $14.7m loan to RA. I assume that is in addition to the grant WR (World Rugby) is meant to make for losses in a RWC year. https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2020/05/15/world-rugby-loan-coronavirus

Tom Carter? Certainly, he was an archetype villain who was 'hated' by the fans of every opposition team, seemingly at all levels.

Yes. As I said, on form this year. So, he is in front of Hockings who had a slow start to the year, Staniforth and Simmons at the Tahs, and any of Philip's partners at the Rebels. Swain has been out of the picture with injury at the Brumbies and I believe Douglas isn't eligible. Therefore ...

On form this year, Neville would be the next best pure lock, and there's some speculation that he is in Rennies first list, while Simmons isn't.

I'm sure that was TSR's point Wamb.

KOB, you really are a stickler for anyone in light blue. Where we differ is that those you say were near the end of their careers, I say were beyond the end and only the continued ineptness of our national coach kept them in the squad/team. Right at the moment, it is impossible to say what...

KOB, it is definitely a changing of the guard.

Well, not Beale, Simmons, AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper), TPN, Hanigan, Pooper, Phipps, Foley or Folau. Probably a few more.

Would have negotiated a one or two year contract. His choice whether to stay for the Cup or not. I would not have shown him the door, nor would I have given him a 4 or 5 year contract as RA did.

Reaching the QF at last year's RWC after the previous 4 years of very poor coaching (assistants as well as the head coach) and skills development across the players wasn't such a bad result. The Wallabies of today look to be a whole lot more skilful and promising than those of last year taken as...

Wouldn't have wanted him to go, but if he did, no issues. Pocock and Wright were more than adequate RWC No 7s.

Omar, my first thought was that the gulf between the Super teams and any others in the main comp, and then also to the second tier, would be too great to be successful. However, if we are able to reconcile to the top players all going overseas because the money here wouldn't be sufficient then...

Without dealing with the rest, the idea that our Super teams should play against NZ NPC/Mitre 10 sides is mind boggling. For a lot of the Super Rugby years, a couple or more of the Aus sides have been competitive with the very best of the NZ Super sides, and they are again right now. It was a...

Completely agree Reg. A club competition in any guise will be amateur and hence, all the professional players will leave to play where they can be paid according to their skills. A representative competition at the end, as proposed by some, will also be mostly amateur or at best partly...

Brumbies re-start training on Monday.

OK, so it's the Waratahs who keep shitting in RA's nest. Sorry QH.

Is it a fear of the SS old boys coming into power that might be influencing the other states KOB?

BH, you have Tom Wright listed in the back three but not in the Brumbies list? I'd also think Mat Philip would be one of the Rebels on the list.

TSR, there is a possible answer to your earlier question. I think 11 of Slim's Brumbies are certainties with the twelfth being a choice between Neville, Swain and Wright. Now, if Wright isn't in the squad, then I would omit Campbell from the Reds' list to accommodate him. I would also be...