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Just a thought, they're expecting 12 bids, first of all we know Adelaide are on of those extra 2, who's the 12th? Also, if all twelve teams are viable, how much would it cost extra to implement a 12 team competition?

because behind paywall

I can only hope he'll send me out some regulation detail some day! (sidenote: my skewed view must just be because the rams brand looks so damned good!)

Still with these things Bruce, these competitions are usually bred for participation and end with the conservative take up of the running name. They've become very wealthy from their craft and I appreciate that they're experts. Experts get it wrong sometimes, particularly in this rushed bid...

oh god what a horrendous name. Someone tell them to contact me so I can give them a lecture and picture of how they should be branded.

Brand influence and money is why they're getting it. From what I'm hearing all the Sydney teams will have a strong brand though. Even the new ones leveraging the short but well loved ARC or their club history and the clubs involved are doing their best to set it all up as sustainable and best...

they should use their strengths, but if they do leverage the NRC team for the SS team then the sheild would start getting destroyed from everyone pooling the players.

its true, but it would destroy the shield.

with both the individual joint ventures, its scary to think people may gravitate towards those two clubs, and will be interesting to see how usyd and randwick separate the two entities to ensure fair recruiting practices for ss

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-11/super-rugby-to-lose-money-in-2014-bill-pulver-says/5252600 In the video, NFJ doesn't seem very keen at all about the NRC... (4m 20s in)

I do agree lots of rugby people are snobs, though I also enjoy their ability to spell Sent from my GT-I9300T using Tapatalk

The country bid should be country, since NHRU pulled out of bidding. North Harbour were working on university involvement last I heard and were close to a deal.

I think you need to figure out the passing speculation from the strong facts. facts that have been put out and are pretty secure: South harbour jv broke apart, souths are now part of the Rams JV North harbour is working together well Randwick will bid with their partnership with UNSW...

not sure about other teams but the ARC teams if they were seperate entities had most of their teams run out of the waratahs office in nsw. Have some of their documentation and its "if you have any questions, contact NSWRU media." Pretty sure back then the Rebels were considered a NSW franchise too.

early on, in the smh before the comp was announced I think and it was just rumour, Matt Burke suggested a player draft for the top pro players.

It doesn't matter whether you think its a novelty or not, they're talking about an Australian circuit and to ignore a threat in business as a novelty is sometimes the worst thing to do, has lead to disastrous outcomes for the ignorers.

I heard it was credible.

nonethelss, even if we are making fun of the nrl 9's and their idea of a national tournament, I think it would be important to try and get something going in australia for larger coverage of sevens before they do. This is a blatant idea of hijack marketing. Not sure how you could do it, whether...

colts would certainly provide the clearest pathway for every talented kid into pro rugby. If this competition is done correctly, eventually we should be able to combat the player drain to the toyota cup and be able to develop profesional corporate setups for all the franchises involved that can...

also Bob Dwyer is the head of the board for the club these days isn't it? with simon podeivan as president. Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using Tapatalk