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MD, welcome, good to have more posters going to the heart of the matter re our code in Australia. I have been making my own lame attempts at discussing this crucial matter since starting posting to this fine site in June. I have posted - for what it's worth - on the genesis of rugby's post-2003...

Scarf: I would only like to add one thing, and I think it's important: whatever people think of your now-famous/now-infamous vid, there has been an immense amount of verbal traffic back along the essential lines: ah, but the Boks and Wallabies do just the same thing, don't you know! However, to...

Absolutely! You have said it well TOCC. But not halted the hopes of many, as they keep advocating new comps without proposing who's (realistically) going to pay. Just wanted to add my 2cs on this key point. IMO, and I think you agree, what we must focus on today is what we/ARU/State RUs can...

All these creative speculations re additional Aus and/or Aus-NZ comps sub-the-S15 etc are indeed creative and worth tossing around, but the central fact is this: who will fund the inevitable starting cash flow gap between (low) income and relatively high expenditure, and that being a cash flow...

You're on the right track here RR, IMO. My son (here in central Brisbane) went to a good state primary school a couple of years back. There was both Auskick and a a similar program from the NRL that supported school PE teachers kicking off little league teams for the school, partly just as PE...

TOCC - you're absolutely right. It often strikes me how many posters here either don't appreciate - or perhaps have no interest in - the core economics of the game in Australia, which are in a state of quite serious trend-line deterioration that, if not arrested, will worsen and force the code...

Sully, one of the things I like about Wayne Smith (the rugby journo one, link above) is that it's not often that he misquotes or gets his 'insider' data too wrong. I would think there'd be some truth to the items he quotes re the 'lack of level playing fields' within the ARU's approach to top...

Tick.

Gagger, you would have better means of confirming all these figures being bandied around than most of us, but it would seem there's a lot of uncertainty about what the Eels' offer really is, and what salary terms QC (Quade Cooper) actually gets from the Reds and ARU, and what he might have been offered by...

That rather makes the point; in fact, Barnes in 2009 for the Reds didn't 'make it happen', not even close. And, yes, if a Barnes paired with a Genia in 2010 had achieved: the same consistent ball-in-hand dazzle, incredible short and long passing skills (with high accuracy under pressure)...

Looks like there's more NRL undercurrents surrounding the QC (Quade Cooper) dramas than perhaps was first realised: The Australian, 20 August 2010: "The ARU is very vulnerable at the moment, absolutely vulnerable," former Balmain and NSW captain Ben Elias said...

Fair point TBH. Perhaps the media truth is that News have an interest in blowing both ends of the horn so to speak! Btw, I don't think any of this is bad publicity for the everyday fans of rugby. The purists are horrified of course that it's all so grubby and ungrateful of QC (Quade Cooper) (forgetting...

Guys, let's also note that a significant component of this drama is media ramp-up. Goes with the territory. And News Limited 'own' league don't forget. They love stories that embellish league's credentials. I agree QC (Quade Cooper) needs to 'get on with it', but perhaps, just to keep balance here, so does...

You've come back for more, MR ;-)...

Gnostic, I think you will find that this is 'the line' the ARU PR people want players to issue in media Q&A like this. It's just so suspiciously homogenous from one current Wallaby to the next, is it not? I doubt they are encouraged to share their real feelings! They have to be positive I guess...

Ruggo, i don't know how Bernie would be as coach, but the direction of your thinking is 100% right. We urgently need deep expertise that is steeped in the best Aussie traditions of back line play, and can take those traditions and further improve them for 2010 + Test conditions. Gaffney and...

Great! Knowing the calibre your work, I'm looking forward to it already. But please do mention - somewhere - the 'c' word. You are far more expert than me, but the matters of back line (and general) coaching in the recent periods cannot be avoided in assessing the parlous state into which...

DPK - may I say - all credit to you, this seems to me a model way to initiate a thread of interest.

Mooney seems to agree with you Gnostic: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rugby-union/contract-delay-opened-door-for-league-raid-20100818-12etw.html

DPK! I had no idea you were applying for a player agent's job ;-)....