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It's interesting that you mention NFL Was watching this, this morning (you should too, it's awesome) Promo for AFC championship. As they say in the clip, David v Goliath, it's the oldest story in the book. Ignore that rugby in this country has no resources to so such a thing, but I don't...

It's a criticism you could make of Australia (and England) over the last decade or so, but it does seem to be odd to criticize them now when they clearly have a plan in place -> Bernie.

It's the elephant in the room isn't it? There's very little inherant demand at any level in the game (including pros), for more sevens to be played or watched. It doesn't look like it's going to grow organically from the grass roots, so once again we rely on RA to fund, promote, organise etc...

Can RA change the location unilaterally? If Sydney can't host it at Moore Park as per their bid does it go back to WR (World Rugby) and the sevens circuit to decide who gets to host? Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk

Maybe cutting some of the assistant coaches if money is tight? edit re-read - says if money can be found, not if money can't be found! So yeah, head coach

Membership sales must be pretty awful for some of these teams.....

Do Toua and Lucas have contracts in Japan for next year? Presumably Magnay does? Does that make any difference to RA?

Has Lucas been getting a run for Verblitz? Tried looking back at a few games over the last little while and he doesn't appear to be popping up in any team sheets? (pretty hard to find though so may just be my errors!)

Among other things a) The grants for player payment aren't the only payments RA make to each Super Rugby team b) RA was covering the Force's losses each year under the Alliance agreement I do agree there must be a fair old chance that they are covering one or more (all!) of the other teams...

Yep - ARU grant to each team will rise to match the salary cap. Travel and accommodation is covered by SANZAAR The challange for the Super teams (and rugby in this country) is not player payments. It's that they can't raise enough revenue to cover all of the other costs associated with having a...

If revenues have stayed the same, the collective bargaining agreement meant that the total player payment pool was always going to remain the same right?

To answer my own question, I'm guessing they are dividing the total player payments by number of pro players in the country - so inclusive of ARU topups. Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk

Have the previous minimum super rugby salaries been maintained? It was $75k reportedly https://www.foxsports.com.au/rugby/wallabies/wallabies-players-match-payments-cut-to-10000-for-next-two-years-under-new-cba/news-story/895b2ccbbe09b3eaf01eb44a9be4c44d?sv=fe050afb4c2c4e108759265ab0f4506a If...

How does this work? 36 players x $225k = $8.1m

Wasn't Magnay told that if he signed the Japanese contract, he wouldn't get an QRU/ARU contract. He signed anyway I actually think RU have to stand strong on that one else we will have a generation of young players missing offseasons in Japan. Circumstances are a fair bit different Sent from...

Both of them were charged for possession. (One bag found but two charges).The other guy was also charged for the phone messages. Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk

He accepted an ARU violation even though he was not under contract at the time. WADA wasn't involved https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2016/02/05/karmichael-hunt-suspended-for-six-weeks-and-fined-30000 Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk

Interesting little clause for Hunt's case..... Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk

RA policy:- *In-competition testing as per WADA *Out of competition is stricker than WADA as it includes illicit drug testing *Random urine tests when players are assembled for employment duties *Targetted testing (basically those who are being managed, or who are under reasonable suspicion)can...

RA can do them outside of the official ASADA tests, clubs/franchises can't. Obviously I don't know, but I'd imagine he has been tested regularly since the last time, and passed without issue - if they follow their own procedures. He was on a monitored target testing program But he didn't think...