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Need some pre match Caxton St atmosphere pics please

Agreed for now, but I was inferring that's the maximum foreseeable limits for 2021

That’s true but it’s impossible to come up with a format that extends beyond the pacific at this stage so they may as well just run with that for 2021, see how it goes, and take it from there.

Hooohaah! It’s game day

I think for next year it just makes sense for both RA and NZR just to do the 5 x 5 TT thing, see how it goes and then tinker with it from there. There are very few options in the current environment that are easy to implement, Broadcasters get a look at the product and the viewership and can...

There will be at least 2 - WA and rest of Aus. I think the actual worst case is 3 though - Force, Tahs, Reds

Who is the back up fullback?

It's team announcement day! Finally.

In fairness I suspect it has more to do with the Qld premier than it does anyone related to rugby or Suncorp. Advertising the tickets has never been an issue, selling them is.

It's all part of that first point. My read on it is that they are just amalgamating roles geographically. I have been to courses and there are only 8-10 people there and they're always at bigger centres. Where they get the big roll ups is when they travel to the towns and attend club training...

It's NSW specific but there isn't an administrative thread for the states so will just drop this here: Doorn also commented that due the COVID epidemic NSW Rugby have reduced their cost base over the next twelve months across the business by $7m – this includes savings from staff, players and...

^^^^ I think RN was saying the Force should target a win over the Tahs

Why is that easier than having 1 Victorian team and 1 Queensland team?

Yeah give the Rebels the bye in week 2 and make it Brumbies v Reds EDIT: that won't work either. The only viable option now is to sit the Rebels out in week 1 and the Force play in their place. But are they ready for that? Also, as Reg says, if the Rebs are going to stay away for 10 weeks...

I might be being really cynical here, but if you assume the Force (ironically) are going to survive any cull, and would pick up a few players, how many players each would the other four franchises need to let go to get down to three? Just seems to be a slow and steady outflow of non-essential...

Yes, my thoughts precisely. Funding our 5 teams through it is the sticking point but it's definitely the most logical starting point. Hopefully they are going to incentivise a broadcast deal.

Yes, exactly. The ownership of the franchises comes with other benefits such as priority seating etc but no expectation of a direct financial return.

Why not both? The fundies & HNW's can own the competition and the supporters and sponsors can take a stake in the franchises.

The league players wouldn’t buy it. It worked ok for the schoolboy game as a lot of them played both codes. But no way are you going to teach a league player to ruck and maul properly in the space of a month, barring the odd ex union player like Crichton.

I was wondering that myself. Although I don't think it would be a merger with the Brumbies, if anything it would be a relocation of them, but that would be over a number of years.