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I'm not an ABs fan but I'm pulling for them now. Barnes & the TMO having a stinker. Makes me irrationally angry. First yellow isn't a yellow. They didn't upgrade it (lol) because he just fell on the leg. Why was he off in the first instance then. Openly admitted he got a penalty which they...

Red Card is madness. Change of direction, player low to the ground. Sure, read the guidelines to me. The guidelines are fucked. They don't protect anyone, they don't make the game safer. Congratulations World Rugby.

They've been undisciplined all tournament as well. Just haven't been made to pay for it.

TMO doing all he can to get his face on the telly. ABs very undisciplined though, not helping themselves.

Campo has spent the last three weeks on one of his self-indulgent international media tours shitting all over Eddie though. So it would have be a bit odd for Eddie to turn around and sing his praises now. I just cannot imagine a guy who can't understand why international teams kick the ball...

Campo is 100% not one of the brightest rugby brains in Australia. Other option might be Rod Kafer, Eddie has described him before as the most tactically astute player he ever worked with. Don't think he ever would have played with Fitzsimons though.

From recent Fox Sports article about the team manager leaving Wallabies: "Although most of the staff were only contracted until the end of the World Cup, the list of exits has still included assistant coaches Jason Ryles, Brett Hodgson, Dan Palmer, Neil Hatley, Pierre-Henry Broncan and Berrick...

Does the article have any new sources on Eddie quitting or is it a rehash of previous reports?

7/1 bench. You have to admire the size of their bollocks. Think its the right decision, they have taken an absolute battering in their last two games vs the ABs who you'd assume are much fresher. And looks like it will be raining. Big day for Jason Ryan to earn his keep.

I'm not going to deny the right of Samoan fans or players to feel angry about this. And there is certainly a challenging symbolism to a sport which has been defined by privilege for much of its existence announcing a competitive structure that on the face of it seems to limit opportunities for...

Perhaps a bit unpopular amongst some. I think keeping a closed shop for four years (2026-2030) is not the worst thing in the world. As long as proper promotion and relegation does come into it after that. World Rugby's focus should be on ensuring Japan and Fiji are consistently competitive at...

It's the definition of insanity Hoggy. Change a thing here, cut a cost there, run an extra thirty games along the way and we will be back to where we need to be. Super Rugby is at odds with our history (premier club based competition & a representative provincial game, not a developmental one)...

No one proposing these sorts of changes are under the illusion that it would be three easy steps. These things would be very difficult to do. But difficult does not mean impossible, and if the idea has merit it should be worth pursuing. I'm also not sure what the length of someone being on the...

Yes, because we have Super Rugby. It doesn't take a genius to work out if the players in Super Rugby at the moment were in a club competition, the standard of that club competition would rise.

Out of interest, what benefits from inventing 12 teams in the NRC would not be achieved by professionalising 12 clubs (5 in Sydney, 5 in Brisbane, 2 in Canberra eg)? And why would you want to delete the clubs and their 100+ yrs of history when it is the sole good fucking part of Rugby Union in...

In terms of playing and population base, the countries we most resemble are France, England and South Africa. France & England both have promotion-relegation leagues. English clubs are going bankrupt not because of the model they are under, but because the RFU tried to grow beyond their means...

I just find it baffling why so many people are so negative towards this idea. For years, the biggest problems identified by all the independent reviews we have commissioned have been: - Don't play enough games - Lose top end talent to League - Lack of identity in the Super teams failing to...

Our revenue is almost entirely generated by the Wallabies. If you took all that revenue and invested it in a club competition and didn't keep bailing out the states, and let Ikitau, Tupou, Kellaway, Bell, Petaia, Marky Mark (Nawaqanitawase), Frost, Valetini (just examples) access higher salaries and better...

There is also an irony to every man and their dog saying we need to spend more money on the grassroots for the last 15+ years. But the moment someone proposes a competitive structure which is built around our grassroots (and therefore delivers money into their pockets) everyone shits the bed and...

Part of the reason we have no crowds at Super games is because on a Saturday, rugby people would prefer to be on the lash at their clubhouse then go watch a dross uncompetitive product. Who are these vast vast majorities of people you know who attend Super Rugby in the first place?