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Certainly brash. No doubting that. There's a fair amount of movement regarding future professional franchises and leagues at present. The Georgians backed by a Billionaire wanting to enter a franchise in either the Pro 12 or Super Rugby (it's actually a shorter trip from Tbilisi to Cape Town...

There has been mumblings of thd AP moving to 14 clubs (which would include Yorkshire Carnegie and London Irish as all the member clubs that form the PRL) and ring fencing the Championship then scraping the Academy League and farming out upcand coming players to Championship sides. I'm not sure...

Largely. Yes. Taking the current 18 teams. Split into three conferences. Sunwolves in ours, Jaguares in the NZ conference. SA as is. We play a 1st phase of 10 games all internal. Teams are ranked 1-6 at the end of the 1st phase. They are then sort into three additional pools based on the ranking...

I'd be very interested in what Gibson thinks we need to do in regards to changing our development pathways.

The perhaps the answer is to lean into the expansionist side of the competition. Call for EOI's and see who applies. Then look to include as many as possible. Alongside that, open up the player market within Super Rugby. Over on another forum I half jokingly suggested looking to merge Super Rugby with the...

Probably not. As I have said previously as strange as it may seem I don't really agree with what I have written. But at present the competition is so fundamentally flawed we need to examine all avenues to essentially reboot it. Regarding this I really only see two options. Move back tp the...

Coaching is a huge issue. Right up the chain. I can remember being completely put off by the lack of game awareness and skills development most of my coaches provided. We often be running through drills involving 2 on 3 situations where the right way to do it according to my coaches was the...

I hated writing my little post. Really did. I'd much prefer to see all 5 remain and I'm also hoping that last night was more a case of slow starter than what to expect.

In fact, having three highly competitive squads would stand a better chance of drawing more interest that 5 average ones. Then there's the flow on effect to the Wallabies. Raising the standard and competition for places in Super Rugby via this move will inevitably bolster the competitiveness of the...

I know it's only early in the new season and there's still a long way to go. I also realise that this could be considered reactionary which is very likely true but I'm coming around on the reduction of the number of teams. But not just here. Across the competitiom as a whole. I have been an...

Yeah, I think I must be watching a different NRC to H35 because Horwitz has been a strong performer at that level.

Mate, he isn't wrong. A lot of fundamental errors. These guys are professional footballers. At the very least they should be able to execute the basics. While have been attacking in nature it's still doesn't make them less inexcusable. Early days but so far in the race to possible extinction...

Foley is out. Hegarty to 10.

There was a proposal to merge bpth Parra and Penrith to form the Western Two Blues and move them to Blacktown.

They have a record number of teams turning out for the club/social events which bodes well for a new record crowd wise.

I have seen quotes suggesting that the $30m is conservative. But, yeah. Seeing what blocks of houses have sold for you have to think that parcel could fetch a pretty penny. Wonder if auction would be worthwhile.

Absolutely would like to have a look at it. Seriously, if it's solid enough to both find the finances to build this facility and the necessary income needed to pay for it then its something that needs to be proliferated right across the game. We need a lot more co-operation and collaboration...

How many tenants do they have?

Apparently they have a rock solid business model. Or so says someone supposedly involved with the club over on the QPR thread. If that is correct then they should be sharing it with every other club nationally. The game needs to cooperate and collaborate as much as possible in order to prosper.

There's been some discussion of this on other forums. One suggestion would be to enter a team in the Espoires which from what I understand is a U22 league structure. The idea being allowing for national U20 players access to the French clubs as a means of getting more players in professional...