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Surely that should be a bigger issue. The Brumbies are a winning team in a rugby stronghold and used to have crowds above 20k. If they were bottom of the ladder, would anyone be turning up at all? The Rebels were drawing 10k crowds earlier in the year but I think people just can't be...

I think everyone would agree that the ARU handled the situation very poorly. It was an issue which only really involved a few people and became a complete nightmare from a PR perspective. Are we surprised that when something more complex and having deeper impacts on Australian rugby comes up...

I know this is a sensitive issue for many people, but an ethical organisation with a good culture would reacted very differently to the Beale / Patston controversy. In most organisations, what Beale did would have resulted in immediate firing even if it was his first offence. And it definitely...

And perhaps just decided to go to a round robin system. If there are massive financial problems then they need to engage with the community. I want Super Rugby teams in Melbourne and Perth and would commit towards that end.

I'll have to disagree. I have never seen the point of the "Australian" box kick which gains you 10-20 metres and loses you possession (As compared to the NZ box kick which puts the opposition under pressure and often results in regained possession.)

So 3 things we learned from tonights game 1 - Koroibete should never ever kick the ball in a game again. 2 - If Meehan box kicks again then everyone in attendance should be able to give him a kick. At least he should be sat down and forced to watch every one of his box kicks and realise how...

And when do we get to Own the Rebels? I'm sure we could clear a significant amount of money for that. If he wants to sell, then I'm sure we can raise some money for it. Even better, if the ARU said that we would keep 5 teams of a certain amount was raised then I think fans combined would get...

It is exactly what I'd do if I had that amount of money. Buy the Rebels and have fun. The AFR interviewed him and stated "Cox took over the Rebels officially last week, along with Melbourne business identity Peter Sidwell, the founding chairman of A-League club Melbourne Heart (now Melbourne...

I think he is a businessman and needlessly pissing off the state government and a number of highly connected business people interested in rugby doesn't make much sense. He could have just not commented on it at all. But seriously, who knows what on earth is going to happen. I don't. You...

Izzy was 2013. Have to get clear which year the ARU gave massive benefits to the Waratahs. That said, we did get a top up for Koroibete this year We did spend on Burgess but surely Phipps would have been costly given he had played at least a dozen games for the Wallabies by then. Burgess...

Hmm. So are they ratifying the contracts above from the Rebels. If so then that is odd. The problem is that due to the "salary cap" and top up structure, the teams are unbalanced. It would be fine if the Force is dropped and the Rebels get Coleman instead but I wouldn't be surprised if he...

I wonder whether the ARU actually have any rights to tell the Rebels not to sign anyone (as the Rebels are privately owned). Probably another issue for the lawyers. In all of these situations, there is only one winner - the lawyers.

Hmm. What position does he play? Lock. What do locks do? Catch the ball at the line out. Nah, our line out is good enough as it is :D Given my proposed Rebels strategy of kicking the ball as far down field as possible (as we have Debreczini and Hodge) and winning line outs, I reckon...

You mean that maybe they should not spend 50% of the ARU top ups on the Waratahs and basically 0% on the Force and Rebels combined? I had always wondered how the Waratahs were able to take both Beale and Phipps from the Rebels and also retain Foley (after he had signed a Memorandum of...

One of the big problems with Super Rugby is that Australian teams are losing. We don't lose in the AFL, NRL or A-League because we don't play anyone else (apart from the 1 NZ team). It is easier to play more attractive looking sport if you aren't getting hammered every other weekend.

I'd cull the conferences. Add a couple of extra rounds and go for a full round robin.

Let's assume we cull both the Rebels and the Force. Who would you add to the Waratahs starting line up and who gets dropped? How many additional games do you think that the Waratahs would have won with the additional players (if any).

Significantly larger raw number of people growth. In the 2006 census, the Sydney Urban Centre was about 270,000 higher in population than Melbourne. In the 2011 Census, the gap had closed to 201,000. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia_by_population) Similar numbers in...

Firstly, I would note that there is a strategic change that will impact all sports over the next 10 years with a massive reduction in money from television. This will have some benefits for Rugby as they are currently not getting that much from it compared to the NRL and Rugby in Europe. The...

In summary, there is a report that something might be happening. This has been denied by the person who would most know about it. We decided to write a click bait article anyway as it should bring us in some revenue.