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Ah, some of the mindless kicking reminds me of the Rebels

And Cricket (all the IPL teams are privately owned). Toulon is probably the only rugby team I'm really aware off.

Some others do. David Walsh invested a huge amount of his money into MONA. There are the various soccer sponsors (although the Russians are possibly doing it to ensure that they are popular and are thus less likely to be able to be sent back to Russia). A couple of billion and it would...

Poor injury management? The Rebels? Nah ... we had at least a half of our contracted players available every game. But seriously, the injuries were ridiculous. To have so many injuries across so many of the team for this and last year suggests extremely poor injury management.

If I had his ludicrous amount of money, (over $6 billion), I reckon I'd have lots of fun investing $2 billion in trying to fix Rugby in Australia. If the ARU don't want to play ball, then you'd just Packer them.

Maybe they meant weeks?

Is he a major sponsor or does he just sponsor a couple of jerseys? Fortescue is only on https://www.westernforce.com.au/partners/front-of-jersey-partners not on the major partners list in https://www.westernforce.com.au/partners. Of course any sponsor is valued and worthwhile but I'm not...

Honestly can't see how this could be sorted out in time with 8 weeks to go before the season starts. Except they are out. That's what SARU has officially announced. Can you imagine what it will be like if the Pro12 deal falls through entirely ...

You obviously haven't read all 377 pages ... I don't think the idea would be unpopular. I'm not sure whether expansion of the SS is the right idea or not. It is definitely inline with how the AFL expansion has occurred but it would have to be very quickly sped up to get to a national...

It doesn't take too much. I did some investigation earlier and I think that we have an average number of semi finalists which is higher for 5 teams than 3 teams (or very similar) and the same number of winners in less years of competition.

It is a wonderful piece of making a decision and then finding facts to justify it. If you look at number of semi finalists or winners, the 5 team scenario matches very well against the 3 and 4 team system. They also haven't taken into account that if there are 18 teams then of course your...

I don't think it is particularly sneaky. More like bleeding obvious. There is a big benefit for them having games in their own time zones. Given the history - the announcement of the Rainbow cup in 2005 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/4533261.stm), the rumors in 2009 of South...

Just because your view is that it is the right thing to do, doesn't mean that it is everyones view. If they do, the ARU will be sued out of existence. Hopefully, they come to their senses and realise that they can't cut the Force or the Rebels for both legal reasons and as a matter of sense...

And a stupid (although probably true) answer. They will call up the Waratahs and ask which players they want from the culled side and make sure they get whoever they want.

Um .... have you seen the Super Rugby record between Australia and NZ this year?

But it just makes sense. I'm sure players on both teams have been looking at their options and given both teams have gaps it is pretty likely that if the Rebels leave that the Force will get a few nice additions to their team and vice versa. If the Rebels do go, then I hope that the Force take...

Hodge is signed to the Rebels until 2020.

And the Rebels had Jones (20), Pyle (23), Phipps (22), Betham (22) and Kingi (22).

Yeah, but they bribe better

However we get to the number where just over 2000 attendance occurs, there is a problem. Your reasoning is completely correct and makes sense but I just really don't understand how this is going to really work. Assuming the full extra 11 million gbp goes to the SA teams, they are really going...