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Where the fuck has the skill in Australian Rugby gone? All I've seen so far is meathead Rugby. No wonder we're fucked.

Woukd like Shepard to stop referring to the Spirit as the Force and the Rising as the Rebels.

Missed the Spirit's third try thanks to my net dropping off. But Spirit takes the game.

Whoa!!! That was a nice little effort. Spirit up 12-8.

That pic shows a solid crowd in attendance. Would prefer to be seeing that as opposed to the soccer game in the distance.

He hasn't shut up. Keeps talking over the other commentators. Needs to be given the flick for the next game.

Too comfortable. Who's there to really pressure him for a start?

Not knocking the effort. The intensity is very high but yes, for all the intensity the level of skills is severely lacking. Story of Australian Rugby at present.

Let's be generous and call this a very scrappy affair.

I still don't think axing the Force is likely. Remember the article was written by the same journo who started the whole 'move the Force to Western Sydney' rubbish. What is needed isn't so much a contraction of teams but a reorganisation of our game and its professional arm. We need a more...

Sort of a reclaimation project.

The ARU aren't giving the clubs any money directly. They are allocating $300,000 a season to ensure the broadcast of the Shute Shield. That's not nothing.

The Fitz article is well meaning but tends to maintain the idea that the grassroots of the game only extends to 12 clubs in Sydney and 10 in Brisbane. Which is funny as these same clubs are trying to position themselves as elite performance structures. I agree that the best way to fix our...

You mentioned numpties recruiting from other ocdes and there being better candidates already in place. Not always so.

Eastwood own all the built infrastructure on that land as well? Including the bar? That's why Southern have been able to maintain themselves, or so we have been told. Why can't Eastwood?

Irae Simone was clear and away the best 12 in the SS this season. Where was he playing last year?

He's the guy who's living in the past. The clubs cannot provide the necessary environment to continue the development of players. I watch the Shute Shield every week and have my own club allegiances and freely admit that.

Isn't he the President of the club so broke they cannot invest in an NRC team but in a previous article boasted about having board members that could do all the administrative duties of the ARU before lunch?

The Rugby scene is also only developing in Miami. It's questionable whether it could gather enough interest. I think where PRO goes in the next few years depends on investment. Evidently the guys behind Swansea City in the EPL are looking at the Pro12 proposal. PRO need to begin chasing these...

Back to Rugby. Amazing what getting one PRO league off the ground can do. Now both the Pro12 and Toulon are looking to set up franchises in the States. Both are very early and probably unlikely. Article suggest that the Pro12 is looking on the East Coast but I've seen severalvmentions of both...