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The irony...

I'm sorry mate but this just screams arm chair critic - maybe you do have a great scrum IQ but none of the above is anything but your own opinion Calls generally go as fast as players showing stability - so this is a player issue, not the the referee. This is a wild assumption (and ironic...

Right thanks for clarifying.

Ok champ well so far you think the best way forward is having 900kg packs going at it in a free-for-all so you're off to great start.

If they're all apart of the same competition - would Auckland or Wellington not be considered part of Asia (or inversely all aus team be a part of Oceania). In the event Auckland and Wellington finish in the bottom two - but are still the best teams in Oceania, it's hard to fathom how that...

tell us you know nothing about scrums without telling us...

Can an insolvent competition really chase clubs for trading while insolvent?

Another great example of the incompetence of previous regimes....

Perry Park (above) vs Ballymore

I don't think it can. The Reds are in there full time as are the Wallaroos so as I understand that high performance facility in the mclean stand is already at max capacity

Have I missed something? Has funding been committed for the eastern stand yet? Last I heard was the A7s would move if it was built and if funding was committed by government. Would be awesome if so.

In this climate, neither unfortunately... :confused:

It's really not - Butterfield street is narrow, winding and while it was like that in the 90s and 00's nothing has changed. The Busway along the northern corridor did nothing to change this. The busway services the hospital, not Herston.

It's objectively less accessible than perry park, and by a significant margin. Even the bus station is 1.8km from ballymore - it's a long walk through quiet suburban streets for 15k people every match day.

You wouldn't - it's a major thoroughfare. Be like closing Milton Road for games at suncorp

2.5ks is still a decent hike to Exhibition and Wilston station is tiny and being an 'island station' would could be very risky for large crowds. Re buses, the streets around Ballymore can't really get wider for buses. Would need a creative solution for sure.

Which is where I think Perry Park has a better argument. Costs aside - it could facilitate a larger capacity with its existing transport infrastructure (other than the question of how do you funnel 15-20k people across Abbotsford road safely, efficiently). Any Transport Engineers in the chat?

Capacity is an interesting one. Perry Park is saying the stadium would hold between 15-20k. My understanding of a proposed Ballymore redev of the eastern stand is that it would effectively mirror the new Mclean stand (maybe being slightly larger). That would realistically only add an additional...

Eh - from what I've seen it wont really improve it all that much. Exhibition will become a full time station but its still a 2.4km walk to Ballymore through small suburban streets. Wilston station is closer but it would require a significant upgrade to facilitate moving 15-20k people. I also...

Construction is an interesting point - other than the obvious fact ballymore has one complete grandstand already making the rest of the redev cheaper, I don't understand this enough to comment. And sure - the QRU could clip the ticket of every event held at Ballymore so I agree that they would...