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Is echo overpaying considering John Oneil is traveling for the next week for the ARU and the again for the entire EOYT?

Yeah, well presented opinion. Not fact. At the end of the day it is just conjecture that his job at echo is impacting on his job at the ARU. There is actually zero proof. The fact he chaired events NSW previous to no complaints would illustrate that people are just sticking a boot in rather...

So what your saying is you have no proof if JONs time at Echo is impacting on his job at all and he isn't breaking his contract in any way either?

If the ARU wasn't such a shambles we would have funding for a "Team Rehab A" program to better prepare the up and coming injury prone for longer lay offs at the top level.

I'm not trying to be cryptic, dont want to name who said it cos there on a media ban from talking about it. He didn't say Names, just said 3-4 guys who he referred to as the rat pack.

3 or four players I was told. "rat pack" was my drinking buddies term, one he said is used to describe them by others.

Agreed as well, this is boring. 3- hooper 2- Beale 1- McCabe

We have never had depth to field a 2nd 15 and win a game, we haven't won at loftus in many many years with many different teams. Not sure it is proof of much at all unfortunately.

I think quadegate might save him. If RD wasn't on the nose before the championship I think the injury toll would have saved him, unfortunately I don't think it has made that much of a difference.

Agree deans should go at the end of the championship, don't agree the effort was crap. Boys put there bodies on the line tonight, we were never in the game but try saving tackles involving running down players over 40 meters don't come from lack of effort. Kurtley deserves to be wallaby fly...

He actually signed sonny to a different manufacturer to Adidas after he knew sonny couldn't wear anything else. He then complained and fought for sonny to be allowed to wear what he wants. Also, one of the reasons he gave for him leaving the bulldogs was that they used sonny in programs and...

I know, it's just strange. Khmer is doing a great job, rosters have pretty much already been pimping SBW for next year, now all of a sudden the seed of doubt is planted. Brilliant stuff.

PRETORIA: The Australian Rugby Union will wait until after the end of the Rugby Championship to try to solve its dispute with disenchanted Test five-eighth Quade Cooper. The ARU chief executive, John O'Neill, who arrived in Pretoria on Friday night, said after several days of drama surrounding...

SONNY Bill Williams will only play in the NRL next year if Quade Cooper is beside him, with the pair looking certain to be in the same team, whether it be league or union. The Sunday Telegraph has learned Williams and Cooper will now come as a package deal, such is the desire of the two stars...

The fact that nuci has a history of players not liking him would make him an outsider wouldn't it?

I thought sharpe was having a laugh. He would have been asked about Quade 1000000000 times this week, saw it as him having a joke. Drew Mitchell is part of the leadership group. Wouldn't classify him as a younger player.

Why won't link put up with the rat packs antics? He doesn't discipline the leader at Qld? I think Quade is doing a massive disservice to link. He is illustrating in only wanting to play for him that link may be to close to the players to drive "change". At least from an ARU perspective. They...

O'Neill's contract with the ARU allows for at least one external directorship and he has been on the board of Echo, which demerged with Tabcorp last year, since 2007, the year he returned to the ARU from Football Federation Australia. The ARU had no concerns with him chairing Events NSW from...

If gen y is a problem, it also falls on the management and coaching of the players to take responsibility for there actions and help them mature to the needs and beliefs of the group. Generational change is everyone's problem.

It says he is putting in significant time. It also says he works long hours at the ARU. So it's safe to assume he is handling both jobs to his contractual obligations, so yes, I'm 100% right.