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And people wonder why we have an issue attracting more people to our game

Think there's a little bit more to it than that QH. Our rep teams are full of more non-anglo players than they have ever been. They may have ended up at private schools, but I bet the parents of our State and national teams are as relatively low-socio-economic as they have ever been. We're...

Douglas has been massively disappointing. Starting to look like that one good season with the Tahs is the exception and not what should be expected from him.

Big drop since last year when Morgan reported 108,000 http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/6921-almost-8-million-australians-play-olympic-sports-march-2016-201608111116 Or the 250,000 reported to enjoy playing our game in 2014...

Ritchie may be the most astute businessman in the world, but he was also smart enough to join the RFU with a world cup on the books. The game here would probably be seen to be in rude health too if we'd hosted the 2015 world cup and earnt the 100m gbp profit from it that the RFU did.

Let's make some very broad assumptions. In 2012 the ARU stated Super Rugby brought in $12m a year from broadcast rights. The introduction of the rebels allowed a 30% increase in the number of games, so assume all else being equal, that an extra $3m a year Over the 7 year of the Brumby's...

It's that simple. They are drawn from a hat, one from each band per pool http://m.zimbio.com/pictures/jwOG_iiUB0O/IRB+Rugby+World+Cup+2015+Pool+Allocation+Draw

His team mates voted him two John Eales medals in a row by mistake?

If you haven't seen the last 20 minutes of Wales v France have a look. Samson Lee gets a yellow card after 80 mins. Game isn't completed so he comes back on after 90mins on the clock. Missed just 90 secs of game time

ARU pays for travel, accommodation and costs of staging the competition for all teams, and indirectly pays for the salaries of Super rugby players and any top-up players involved. Funded from broadcast agreement with Foxtel.

Waiting for the day that high school in England falls on hard times and starts charging us all a liscencing fee for using the word Rugby

Yep. The problem isn't when the ball is in play. The problem is how much the ball isnt in play.

It bounced up off the ball but that's not much of an excuse either

Gone nowhere for a decade

Until non-gps players get anything like the coaching and resources invested into them that the schools do then there will always be a bias to the GPS players, and that's not even mentioning the scholarships that stack the school teams in the first place. It's the ARU's best asset at the moment...

Yeah - he'll get some time for that

Hurricanes v Highlanders 42k Waratahs v Brumbies 67k (Same game last year - 120k)

If you're changing the laws/making a hybrid game don't you lose the international appeal of the sport?