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In the first instance, while having a higher level of quality across a comp should make it better commercially, on it's own it is neither required or enough. You need a sufficient quality and a competitive comp - which means a reasonable spread of talent. If Aus teams are consistently spanked...

We may have a vaccine early nest year so international rugby more likely in 2021 - presuming the countries involved quickly get things under control. With respect, will that include RSA? A five series bled in 2020 is easily a step too far. Need to look to local barbarians and Aus A + NZ...

I'm happy for the tribalism versus NZ to happen with the ABs. One thing I am genuinely saddened by is I had always intended to follow the Reds across RSA on an African campaign. Won't happen now. Would have loved to watch the Reds on the Hiveldt and in Cape Town. It's just so impractical as a...

Thanks - it came out more terse than intended. Mate, it is standard rules on every forum I am on. To have it covered you would need subscriptions to every likely news service that could be quoted. Which is silly. I don't have a problem with the concept of paying for journalism - though I do...

Quoting a paywalled article with no input on what the article is about, is pretty poor.

I like the cut of your jib, sir. Please contact Mclennan and offer your services immediately for the current TT negotiations. I can offer easily more than one beer in compensation.

Occasionally your stuff is droll, DP. You have probably done the doll thing now.

The Kiwi hubris is actually worse than this. What they are actually saying is give us your best talent to improve our competition, and then for Australia to part fund this competition. Answer: No So while the Kiwi pundits are cogitating a reduction in playing quality across the...

I should probably know better than responding seriously to a DP post, but why do you Kiwis continue to throw more bales of hay onto the straw man? No-one is arguing about a difference in standard, or the desirability of leveling the playing field. It is the process of getting there that is the...

New Kiwi proposed Super - Names for consideration #AB development league #Kiwis plus friends comp #Shrink (Aus) to (Kiwi) greatness

Wow. Look, RA deserve all the opprobrium they generate, but you are now looking for fire because there isn't any smoke? My expectation is that the messy and bloody internecine war has dragged on so long there is nothing left. Hamish seems to have this. What is more impressive is that the...

Honestly mate, completely honest, every east coast rugby fan I know is thrilled to have the Force back. They are no way out of their league and right on the quality wanted even after the absence. W's will come.

Welcome back, Shiggins. You have been missed.

The first post that has me getting behind it. We didn't commit millions at 16 on Tupou though, did we.

Reds spent quite some effort in preseason with players bonding in country areas - some of that VERY country. Also the QPR is seeing a lot of names returning in 2021 who had a shot at Super, but migrated for better opportunity. They would presumably jump at the chance in any new comp. As an...

I'm not close enough to it to say. It would need splitting the Reds wider playing group. A lot of the "country" players are still SEQ as far as I can tell - Gold Coast for instance. Also Bond Uni has big stakes in the NRC Country team, so I don't see them relocating to FNQ. The fascination...

Welcome to Domestic Comp pundits, Derpus - it's taken time but time well spent. We may even get what we want, more to the point, given a) Hamish apparent willingness to hold his ground; b) reaction from Aus rugby world generally in relation to Kiwi proposal for TT going forward; any TT that...

The Breakdown is one of the better rugby programmes going around. Inevitably (and understandably) with a Kiwi skew, which in many ways increases the rugby IQ of the programme. And in other ways not so much, such as the current discussions on the future of Aus rugby. Aussies should surely expect...

What a risible, blinkered, asinine statement. Look around the world and how things are travelling. Australia is the only middle level power with anything like this sort of success. And before you start reeling in NZ I said middle size power. NZ PM equates to roughly Clover Moore, the the...