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I started watching a satire called "Braindead" last night, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Tony Shalhoub. Not going to spoil it for anyone who doesn't know the premise, but the more I hear about the workings of the RA board, the more convinced I am that Braindead is not only a...

Yeah, that same spokesman also had to deny that the Force would be interested in filling a vacancy in Super Rugby in case one of the other Australian teams had to get the bullet. I know I'm a little out of the loop but I had no idea things were that dire!

And a solution to Australian rugby's woes presents itself! Two hardy souls who know something about sports administration merely have to change their names to Cameron Clyne and Raelene Castle and wait for the genuises at RA to give them systems access. Once done, they can arrange to have the...

Someone in RA just needs to tell the fanbase that if they don't like the game, they don't have to watch it. That's bound to work a treat.

Just switched on the very end of the Fiji-Samoa match. Looked like a cracker with Fiji snatching it at the death 38-32, but more importantly it looks like the kind of atmosphere Super Rugby clubs can only dream of. Genuinely looking forward to seeing more of these guys next year.

Maybe get RA directors to put themselves in the stocks and the crowd can pelt them with fruit. You'd sell out every venue in Australia, guaranteed.

Well, it sounds like a more viable option than Hawai'i based on the time zone alone. I remember the Russian side put on a very creditable performance against the Wallabies in 2011 (from memory, they won the second half) but I haven't heard anything since about Russian rugby. An exhibition...

But don't you see that how people feel is entirely subjective, and therefore impossible to regulate for? Homosexual people feel dehumanised by Israel Folau's religious beliefs, so RA has to drive him out of the public square. A transgender cyclist felt dehumanised by Martina Navratilova's views...

Just read this piece by David French of National Review. The article's in an American context but seems applicable here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/dehumanizing-speech-is-still-free-speech/ If you don't want to read the whole thing the last couple of paragraphs are a cracker:

Wamberal, I can't believe I have to say this, but if you spend enough time interacting with the outside world, you will inevitably come across views that confront, shock or even - gasp! - offend you. But you're right. We all have brains, we can all think, we all make choices. Whether or not to...

After the cluster he made of the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony last year, it amazes me that any sporting body would touch him with a ten-foot barge poll.

I remember an All Black getting away with a quickie in a public bathroom, but no, I cant imagine an All Black getting away with expressing old-school Christian beliefs on social media. Which is kind of my point.

Of course RA aren't going to come out and say that, but the persecution is evident when you see the double standards at play. When you've had cases of players doing drugs, getting involved in fights on tour, undermining coaches, getting drunk publicly and so on, and they're all offered a chance...

He didn't have an agent or manager they could have used to reach him? They couldn't go through his teammates? There was no one from RA in a position to approach him face-to-face if he was ducking their calls? It would take RA's incompetence to a dizzying new level if they couldn't figure out...

Don't apologise, Samu. If anyone's so insecure that they're going to get their panties in a twist over a public declaration of faith, that's their problem, not yours. I don't like what it says about our culture though that he felt the need in the first place.

I think the Internet runs 10% on paranoia and 90% on boredom.

I think GRR goes on the road this weekend. I wonder what kind of crowds it'll get.

Well, this doesn't need to be complicated. In a saner world, sporting organisations would simply say that if you have a Y chromosome, you are biologically male and won't be permitted to compete against women. Of course, in the world we actually live in, even a genuine LGBT hero like Martina...

I just don't get the assumption that vulnerable potentially gay teenagers would have no support to see them through that kind of personal crisis and are just empty vessels that public figures that Israel Folau can fill with fire-and-brimstone theology. And if he has those kinds of doubts, how...

But if you were fired for wearing that shirt at home or even at a party I think your employer would be on thin ground sacking you for wearing it. For FitzSimons' analogy to make sense Folau would have had to have made his post on RA's social media instead of his own. Or started proselytizing...