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I have no idea. But what I do know is that we've seen more drive, energy and innovation in the last few months from Minderoo than we've seen from the rugby establishment in ... well, ever, from what I can tell. I don't know what the future holds for World Series Rugby, but at least they're...

So, the Waratahs are spending money on "developmental coaches" who are absolutely distinct from sports psychologists who have absolutely no place in professional sport and are struggling for results and spectators. Meanwhile, across the country a new start-up club backed by private money is...

6,751 at the Fed Cup tie in Wollongong. I don't know if that's good or bad for that type of fixture, but it beats the hell out of 5538 in the Sporting Capital of the World.

I'm just a little bewildered by this attitude to Forrest, I have to admit. Forrest doesn't have to lift a finger to help rugby in WA. Just like he doesn't have to donate $400m to charity, or give his time and profile to highlight the global slave trade, or champion welfare reform in Aborigine...

Well, apparently you guys are still chasing a couple of outside backs. You'd be mad not to do everything you could to get Chance Peni on board. Him, Speight and Banks as your back three, with the forwards you've signed and a fit Lealiifano ... no one in Australia could stand against you. You...

In other words, the player's union is basically useless for anything other than offering tea and sympathy. If there couldn't be a player strike or any other consequential action, at the very least we didn't need to have the chairman of Rugby NSW declaring that his region should get the lion's...

So, when I heard Forrest was going to launch a six-team Indo-Pacific comp against Super Rugby, I was thinking, "Yes. Sterling Archer-style rampage against the ARU, bring it on!" But it's been obvious for days now that it wasn't going to work out like that, and it's not hard to see why. In order...

Apart from the fact that he recruited brilliantly, even in our losses I thought the Force were a lot more competitive. In 2016 we were basically in it up to 60 minutes or so - this year we were competitive, a lot of the time, right up to literally the last couple of minutes. If we'd had just a...

Yeah, I don't see the axing of the Force doing much to improve Australia's performance generally. The Reds will still underperform, because they'll continue to be led by coaching staff whose sole qualification is being "good Queensland rugby men." The Waratahs will still underperform, because...

God, I hope so. From what's been talked about so far, it sounds like the plan is basically to replace the Spirit in the NRC with the Force, bring a couple of Asian teams in and make us fans out West wait until everyone else has finished playing before we finally get to have our fun.

Where's the fun in that? Twiggy to introduce new 12-team comp featuring teams from Australia, New Zealand, China and the former Soviet states. Tries to be worth eight points, conversions four and the mercy rule to be applied once either team scores fifty. The tournament winner takes home a cash...

I suppose the gamble they'd be making is that interest in Asia will be sufficient to make up for any shortfall in Australia. Otherwise, you really would be looking at a rebel competition with "World Series" sides from WA, NSW, Queensland, Victoria, Canberra ... Fun as it would be watching...

I think initially the six teams will have to include at least one other Australian team to maintain support over east, which is why the apparent interest from the Sydney Stars is so intriguing. And Fiji would certainly have to be involved, based on the excitement they're bringing to the NRC. For...

Here's another view of what's being proposed. This one refers to it as a "rebel" competition, although it does concede that it would require IRB and ARU sanction. Anyway, it's interesting reading...

Further to that, I'd also say that if there's a time for a new comp to suceed in winning over the public, that time is probably now. Hell, people around the world are losing trust in traditional media outfits, they're backing "outsider" politicians over the established elites - why should sports...

Oooh, thematic music videos! Can I play too? I think this one from the Steve Miller Band probably sums up the feeling out west pretty well - the optimism that comes from a great leap into the unknown that Twiggy's provided us. Plus, it's just really great rock and roll:

Oh, please don't say the Pumas are going to win and I won't be able to see it happen...

I suppose so, but you're going to get a lot of itchy feet waiting until August or so to re-launch the Force and the new competition - and even then you'd just be setting up a conflict with the NRC. Speaking purely as a Force fan, assuming the set-up is going to be home-and-away fixtures against...

Hi all, long-time lurker, first time poster. You know what I keep coming back to every time I read someone criticising the timing of Forrest's intervention? That interview Cameron Clyne did with Alan Jones way back in April. You know, the one where he repeatedly asked Clyne what he was doing to...