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He didn’t even make Australia?

I’m sure there was a bit of that. I wasn’t defending Cheika and I wasn’t directly criticising the players, my point was that the underlying reason for the poor skills of the players was probably/likely more related to their poor development when they were coming the ‘pathway’, and that no...

I think the old rule of thumb is that to win a World Cup you have to have 5 world class players in the team. The only truly world class player we had got sacked prior to the event, Hooper arguably could have made a World XV. That’s it. Beale and Pocock could have at other times in their...

I think the issue inferred is that he did pick the players who could catch and pass the best. Agree re Mick the Kick - what a waste of space he turned out to be.

I actually misread the article when I read it at 4.50am this morning, I thought it said the meeting was last Friday, it’s actually this Friday. And our super franchises have a meeting with RA on Thursday, busy week!

I’m reading Eddie’s book and I’m just up to the 2016 tour by England, but they’ve only just landed in the country. EJ (Eddie Jones) said that he knew the Wallabies would be on a bit of a low after losing in the RWC final, and in contrast he had a whole new team and the strategy was to be super physical and...

The 5 NZ franchises hosted a zoom meeting with the 4 existing Aus franchises on Friday to discuss a way forward for next year. It sounds like the Force weren’t asked because they were starting from ground zero and then going from there, but are open to their inclusion. Positive signs. What...

Any of of the models/concepts that have been proposed on here can be made to work. All that is required is money, management and an audience.

That's true. But once they have it and they're getting on in life they start to think there's no point having it if I can't have some fun with it.

If I was the one doing it I would set it up so that every franchise initially has the same capital structure. So to get things going, what's a reasonable amount per franchise? I reckon $5m isn't enough and $10m is probably too much. SO let's settle on $8m as an example. 80,000 shares/units...

The Kiwis were the architects of the disastrous 18 team conference Super model according to the article. In fact that is what the article is mostly about, and to be wary about getting into bed with the Kiwis again as they will do what suits them at the expense of everyone else. So maybe it's...

Rennie and Johnno have it under control. Allegedly...

My read on that is that the Kiwis are playing politics and saying they only want to work with financially viable entities in Australia. From a competition perspective it’s illogical that they would disregard the heartland but fly over them to play in WA. Similarly it’s illogical that given the...

This should light up a few screens this morning:

I’m not sure. The cafe owner told me that’s who he was. I knew Nic’s sister lived here, she goes out with the Wombats first grade hooker.

My second team is shaping up quite nicely. TPN and Horwitz next?

I don't think it's feasible that they would be amateur players. Semi-pro could work, where they have a job/traineeship etc with their employer who is also their sponsor. They might work say 3 days a week and train with the squad the other two. As they are only semi-pro they are more than...

Not opposed to this in concept, but QH does make a good point re the Qld and NSW sides. To have some tribalism they need to have some geographic identity - so Qld city would be the Brisbane Reds, and the other team needs to be Sunshine Coast, or Darling Downs or whatever is deemed most...

That's odd. Basketball only exists at Sydney GPS schools for people who couldn't be arsed giving up either a half or full day for rowing or cricket respectively.

Basketball? Wrong season.